Cohler said that Berlin has many of the right ingredients to be a strong startup hub, with a decent pool of technical talent, a low cost of living and a place at the intersection of technology and many other industries and cultures.
Well, there's a large pool of technical talent, graphic designers and marketing specialists are a lot cheaper than in London, and the cost of living is also cheaper than London – although it's on par with Berlin….
The company did not realize until it saw the application from Louisville, Ky., the person said, that there is a large pool of technical talent within 200 miles of the city and a local public-private partnership that helps train students to become entry-level software developers.
The hope is that with a little money and a lot of hard work, Egypt could leverage its huge population of young people — over half the population is under 29 — and a strong pool of technical talent.
Portugal boasts a wide pool of technical talent thanks to the country's art-film heritage that has nurtured such auteur directors as Pedro Costa, João Pedro Rodrigues and the late Manoel de Oliveira.
While the country has a hugely talented pool of technical talent, it hasn't yet been able to translate that into a strong pipeline of IPO candidates.
Given India's pool of technical talent, Xiaomi will get an opportunity to create a second R&D hub as well as an English-speaking technical support center there.
He founded Amazon later that year in Seattle, in part because of the growing pool of technical talent Microsoft had brought to the area.
The UK has a distinct shortage of technical talent.
"In reality, Microsoft has had an unbelievable breadth and depth of technical talent".
The national team, which draws good crowds, needs a pool of talent from which to choose.
