Poorly researched filler piece. For example, the article on Barcelona failed to mention ANY of the truly interesting startups, like Privalia, ExperienceOn, Letsbonus, Groupalia, and all the companies seeded by Grupo Intercom.
These articles are of very unequal depth. 2 pages for Paris, and only a list of startups for Amsterdam. Not even a mention of recentlylaunched new york times-featured appsterdam: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2011/06/27/27venturebeat-appsterdam-a-haven-for-indie-app-makers-89100.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2011/06/27/27ven...</a><p>Nice to read about less popular cities though (Tallinn, Helsinki).
Throwing in a Swiss boot - <a href="http://startupchart.ch/" rel="nofollow">http://startupchart.ch/</a> - of course Switzerland is a country, not a capital. But then so is Sweden...
Lisbon, the West Coast of Europe.<p>Better beaches, better food and better wines than the other West Coast.<p>Plus: better trams and a better bridge.<p>Perfect geographic location, halfway between Europe and US.<p>-- MV
<a href="http://www.crowdcube.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.crowdcube.com/</a> looks interesting for the UK: "equity-based crowdfunding". However, it doesn't look like there is a great deal of activity.
One of the great things in the article is choosing both Helsinki and Tallinn, neighboring cities with just 50 miles apart. That region is really buzzing with startup activity.
Tallinn and Helsinki truly booming! Garage48 Tartu (<a href="http://garage48.org/events" rel="nofollow">http://garage48.org/events</a>) is on next weekend and after that Steve Blank is visiting Finland for a week (www.steveblank.fi). Truly great stuff happening here!