I was going to include Israel (I hear really awesome things about it). I hope to visit sometime soon. But I don't know anyone who could do the guest essay for Israel. I am hoping to do a follow up post sometime with guest essays including Israel, Brazil, China, Russia and others.
I am somewhat acquainted with heavy-weight entrepreneurs in Israel. In addition, several of my friends are involved in start-ups, myself included. Drop me a line (shmichael at gmail) if that seems interesting.
I am one of the authors. This was just Bradford reaching out to people he knew. I guess he just didn't know anyone in Israel (or China for that matter). I for one would love to know what the situation is like in Israel (and Brazil, and Moscow!)
The startup culture is surely catching up in rest of the world. We are just a couple of ex-Microsofties who moved to Chennai, India from Seattle a couple of months ago as we found the former to be more suitable even for product based startups in some factors.
There is an enormous amount of interest here in entrepreneurship these days. For ex. every month we have an informal entrepreneur gathering at a cafe shop and there are hundreds of tech entrepreneurs directly and indirectly become part of these gatherings; otoh even in tech centers like Seattle it would be hard to see more than a dozen guys turning up for these events.
There are plenty of expats returning back to India after their studies and few years of work experience in the US and that is significantly changing the startup culture and attitudes here and resulting in a lot of cross pollination - where ideas of West meets with efficiency of the east.
