Usually, I'd have said yes.<p>The local startup community is great. There's certainly not as much venture capital available as in Silicon Valley but first not every startup needs extensive funding and secondly the availability of VC has been improving in recent years, too.<p>There's more red tape involved in setting up a company than there is in other countries but you only have to go through that once.<p>However, GDPR currently creates a lot of uncertainty. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait how that works out in the end. Maybe, everyone involved will act reasonably and it'll prove to have been a storm in a teacup but it's really too soon to tell.<p>So, on that grounds I can't really recommend Europe and Germany in particular right now.
No. Germany sucks for tech startups, because we have Merkel, she doesn't know anything about tech or even "the Internet". That means you can expect the government to put a lot of hurdles into anything you are trying to do.
Yea, it's great. We run adtech entirely out of Germany, we've found lots of talented folks but we operate in a village, not Berlin.<p>But then also, we just need AWS, payment processing (stripe) and a bank account.<p>24/7 power, high-speed internet, hardware.<p>Every service is dirt cheap compared to the US.<p>Hookers are beautiful.