James Governor, an industry analyst and co-founder of RedMonk, says he "was at the Carson Summit recently, which was full of European developers interested in the future of web apps," and he wasn't surprised by the shortage of English Web 2.0 companies. "At the beginning of the day I thought it was a bit condescending that a US firm* was running the conference. By the end of the day though I realised why. Nobody English tried," he says here.
The only people that can make a living from whining are standup comedians. There are many great English standups. I just wish there more great English startups. Maybe I just should just stop whining about it.
* Carson Systems is based in Bath, and is a privately -held UK company, but Ryan Carson was born in Colorado.
