SeedCamp Underway, Youth Innovation Abroad
SeedCamp, a week-long event targeted at young entrepreneurs, is now fully underway. The program chooses up to 20 companies and provides them mentorship as well as connections to VC, marketing, PR, the whole package. Five companies will be selected as winners and given funding. All in all, it’s a European event trying to replicate the big self-boasting community, which calls itself the Silicon Valley. 
All joking aside, it looks exciting and I’m trying to follow it from this side of the Atlantic.
I still remember at TechCrunch50, when Yossi Vardi was giving Ron Conway a hard time about not investing abroad. SeedCamp shows that there is no lack of talent internationally. Sure, Silicon Valley is the world capital of tech innovation and probably will be for a long time. However, as the cost of infrastructure diminishes, there is less of need to raise massive amounts of money from Silicon Valley VC’s. People also argue that it is easier to find programmers in the Valley, but all the companies seem to be interested in bringing in better programmers abroad.
I had always wished universities would host SeedCamp-like events to bring a different perspective to the students. But, SeedCamp did say they were going to coming to the “Valley”, right?
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