Europe must embrace ‘crazy entrepreneurs’ – Telegraph

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Google’s Eric Schmidt: Europe must embrace ‘crazy entrepreneurs’ – Telegraph
fonte: www.telegraph.co.uk
CEO da Google aponta a maior debilidade da Europa e de Portugal: não tem capital de risco. O pouco que há com essa designação não merece a parte do "risco".

Europe must embrace “crazy entrepreneurs” if it is to build more technology companies that challenge American firms, Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman and chief executive has said.

“You've got to have the crazy entrepreneur types, who you've got to celebrate, which we do in America. And you've got to have the venture capital, which really is 'at risk' capital and is different from other capital.”

Mr Schmidt said that in parts of Europe the venture capital industry was being held back. "It takes a very long time to get a proper venture capital industry going. And in Europe there are many countries where the failure of venture capital is in fact seen as criminal, Germany, for example.”