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“If you are sitting in a “forgotten” part of Europe in terms of tech, here’s our answer: we don’t care”

This sounds a lot like you’re not interested in articles from tech-averse European locations. Especially people who speak English as a second language may interpret it wrong.

Better rephrase it. “even if you are sitting in a “forgotten” part of Europe in terms of tech, we’d still like to hear from you.”

Also, HAWX was made in Romania.

How much do you pay?

am putting something down. great opportunity

Great idea, I am in! What is the deadline?

fair comment, thanks

It’s an opportunity to write a guest post and in doing so show off your knowledge and get some profile on TechCrunch, not a job

What about Asian techies (and I mean those of us not covered by TechCrunch Japan)? We too demand representation in the TechCrunch universe.

There’s this country called Israel.
I think it’s missing on your list.

(We do compete in the Eurovision Song Contest after all, and even in the UEFA stuff)

Few Questions

Is there a submission deadline?
Will there be more than one poster from any given country?

Interesting.

I would be delighted.

It’s great to see that Sweden (the smack down middle guy of EU in terms of both territorial size and population) is listed as well as the language Swedish.

Or maybe you meant Swedish from Finland?

Great initiative though.

Is it paid or you want someone to write articles for you for free?

Hi! Great opportunity guys!
This is Holland speaking, the center of the techworlds

Could your tone of voice be any more patronising?

Funny: Azerbaijan is not part of Europe on a German list of European states: http://ht.ly/2p5ai
but it is on the english list: http://ht.ly/2p5b2

Dear Azerbaijanians (?), please feel free to consider yourself as europeans even though the listing in german doesn`t assume you to be.

In case any Aserbaijanian (?) reads this: Do you consider yourself beeing European or Asian or both?

Have a good one!
Hobbes

Sounds like something many would be intersted in… might be better if you threw us a few bones though (article topics).

Well Portugal is in. Plenty of Portuguese read you blog.

I’m a commenter not a writer but I’ll think about it given it a try who knows I might show some hidden potential and serve the public.

interesting offer I’ll write about it on my blog… Techcrunch is very popular in Croatia too.

Hello Mike

Idiot!

Why should you accept writing for TC Europe as you always erase our comments ?

Time vs opportunity! Will send you guys something over when I have a free hour.

Is it paid or you want someone to write articles for you for free?

This feels patronising and wrong.

And this seems the message behind it:
“For you poor forgotten little europeans we would just post a few articles that we get for free…. who cares anyway it’s just europe.”

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Come on, Israel is not Europe. Israel is playing in football in Europe because of political situation. If Israel is Europe, then why not whole middle-east? Europe doesn’t even accept Turkey as Europe…

Cyprus is part of the EU.

its funny how Armenia and Azerbaijan are mentioned in the list while Georgia is not. President of Georgia always keeps EU flag next to national flag behind him in his office sending message to europe but it appears that even techcrunch did not buy his crap
as for Azerbaijan, they would love to consider themselves europeans but i do not think the qualify, and they do not think so either. They do put a lot of effort to catch up with european standards though. Actually i think words like eurostandard, euroremont(when u decorate your house according to european designs) and other euro words are more popular there than in europe itself do not know about Germans but Azerbaijan is officially represented in European Parliament or European Comission not sure in which one exactly.

Nice one Mike

ISRAEL mike, come on…Israel plays an important role in the startup ecosystem…not to mention that time we won the eurovision with a trans…

Where is Israel in the List?
I know we’re not part of EU but we’re close enough…

Usually it’s terror organizations who try’s to “delete Israel out of the map”, but Techcrunch…?

so what you actually mean is that there is a .com website for USA and a eu. website for the rest of the world…

After winning all these TechCrunch/Disrupt awards over the last few years Israel is shunned? shame shame.

Nice initiative Mike as it would be great to hear more from people all over Europe. Asking for ‘well written’ articles is a bit intimidating though, that’s something you learn at journalism school isn’t it?

You are not welcome in EU! Stay away we don’t want.

Republic of Cyprus is part of the EU, the Turkish controlled part of the island is not part of the EU.

That was a stupid thing to say. European Union and Europe are very different concepts. EU does not accept Turkey into the union and it is also partly not true, because they already started the negotiations in 2005 to become a full member, Turkey will get billions of euros in 2011 for pre-accession, but the thing is nobody knows how long it will take to be a full member, that’s the problem. Many countries politically strongly support Turkey, like U.K., Sweden, Finland, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Two of the big members don’t want it, Germany and France and I need to make it clear that Germany was one of ours biggest supporters, until the last government. The last German government is very conservative. The only persistent problem is France. And I should also mind you that if Turkey accept privileged membership, France and Germany is ready to accept Turkey as a member, they repeatedly say that. Turkey does not want it, because it is not a full membership. It blocks free movement of people, which is racist.

And the second thing, Turkey is in Europe, whether you like it or not. Geographically a small part in it, but Turks were in European politics for hundreds of years, and ruled most of the Eastern Europe. Turkey is a member of the most of the EU organizations, and she is also a founding member of some of them, like OECD. IT is also in NATO, and owns the second largest Army etc.

If you think it is because of the culture, I invite you to visit Turkey. Yes, Turkey is not culturally European, but she is also not asian. It is very unique.

Turkey is the 7th most visited country in the World, and Istanbul is the 3rd in the Europe. So, come and see yourself. There is a strong eastern culture, but there is also a strong European culture. Some of the things you will see only exist in few cities, like New York, Paris, London. That’s why people keep coming back.

I am from Europe, and lol, the comments are realy written by europeans, only politics

Most importantly, how many vacation days do I get?
Benefits? Overtime pay? Christmas bonus? Unemployment insurance? Severance? Sick days? What can YOU do for me as my employer?

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Where is Israel in the List?
we don’t need to be in the EU for that.. we’re all over the place

You certainly opened up a can of worms…in case you didn’t notice. But your idea is great as a recruiting basis for good writer…like you. You will do well.

No, wait, what am I saying? You are already doing well. Smart people; good results.

You shouldn’t need journalism school to be able to write an articulate, well-reasoned piece on a subject you care about. If writing well is intimidating for you, I’d strongly suggest you either get a good writer to help you or else not submit.

waiting for Techcrunch India

+1

Hmm sitting here and wondering where the hell is ISRAEL! on that list….
especially if you take “eurovision” partisipants
we won like 5 times you know

In other words, “My fellow Europeans: We want a ton of free content to run on the site. Write for us for free.”

The comments by itself are already an article or food for an article “Language, cultural and political borders in the EU for start-ups”

life’s not fair, you got all the great startups, we got free health insurance..

Israel is practically part of Europe. We even compete in the Eurobasket (European basketball championship).

Interesting. A reasonable comment.

Israel is evidently part of europe … can you correct the error?
In basketball as Nir says, but also for example in swimming ( http://www.len.eu/?pag=federations ) and some other …

“We have hundreds of languages, no unified single market and centuries of war and conflict behind us.” By reading the comments through you have a few more arguments to start a European war….

@Mike: I would love to share a story or two, but can’t think of a good one. Can you be a bit more exact on the story definitions and perhaps come up with a few examples of what you are looking for???

Guys, your missing the point…
Its not about being an official part of the EU, nor wining the basketball championship, Israel is an important startup hub…although lately ive seen much more EU based start ups get funded not to mention sillicon valley ones..
(but ill discuss that on my piece)
I dont think remarks as “we dont want you here” belong in the Techcrunch forums…

Great, the ZZ (Zionist Zombies) came out of the closet. Obviously Techcrunch is a terr’ist member of the Axis of evil for having the nerve to exclude Israel from its birthright European citizenship.

Israel may be an important startup hub but it’s not more related to TechCrunch *Europe* than India or Taiwan; should they be included too ?

Actually, in Russia, people don’t use iPhone, rather, iPhone uses them! http://bit.ly/dzwHA7

The only part of Turkey that can be considered “European” is what you’ve taken away from Greece. Istanbul is NOT a Turkish city – heck, its real name is Kwnstantinoupoli.

And yes, you won’t get in the EU for as long as you have half of my homeland occupied.

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I mean come on, there is Kazakhstan on the list and not Israel ?

What the hell is that ? Some really stupid comments here.

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well you know you can choose to steal Palestine but you can’t still be part of Europe
you ether stay in Europe or you go live in someone else’s land

israel competes with eurape because if they don’t they will have to compete with the arabs and Israeli players are not allowed to enter arab countries
that’s what happens when you steal someone’s land

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Still waiting for TechCrunch Africa ….