European Web Startups: Entrepreneurial Activity Rates and

Availability of Resources

Preliminary Interview and Survey– Full Results on April 24th, 2009

Contact: t.zhang2009@hult.edu Web: www.londonsf.comMarch 23, 2009

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Countries with insufficient data: Luxembourg, Turkey, Malta, Latvia, Cyprus, Iceland, Slovenia, Norway, Portugal, Estonia, Austria, Finland

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Survey Details• This survey was conducted through email interviews with bloggers,

members of startup social networks, and entrepreneurs in EU countries. Almost 200 individuals were contacted however, some countries did not have respondents.

• 1-4 respondents for each country.• Question 1: How entrepreneurial do you consider yourself? Your

peers? Your area in general? How do you think it compares to US, rest of EU, UK?

• Question 2: Do you feel you have enough local resources to start your business? What are they? E.g. News sites, blogs, groups, VCs. How adequate are they? How easy is it for a startup?

• Each response was rated from 1-5, 5 having the best resources or web entrepreneurism, and plotted on the graph.

Full report using survey results to follow