Do interesting German mobile startups exist or is this area occupied by the often-quoted German Copy/Paste Innovation that has been dominating the German Web 2.0?

Damn sure there are! During my research I was not bombarded with dozens of mobile startu…

Why ideas are coming from America to be simply copied in Germany… Well… think it’s not actually true. More correctly: “Ideas are coming TO America and TO Germany” and for web-startups particularly. Reason: both countries have well-developed infrastructure and not only for internet-access but other essential for e-commerce services too. For example: parcel delivery services, credit systems, payment systems, customer rights protection laws and agencies and other [oh believe me it’s hard to get well without these little helpers of e-commerce]. And main – German and USA residents are loyal to “do things online”. By the way which are more loyal on average ;-)?

So, what is the US/DE difference in our case? Let me make little suggestion: it is mentality - German investors are more circumspect in common while their American friends are more aggressive. No? Do you remember “dot com boom”? USA sometimes works like “early-testing-cycle” of ideas for electronic businesses. Since investors OK about risks.

And by the way is LinkedIn “autochthon American” ?

Well… think globally, act locally. I mean take working ideas and go get German investors ))).

This is THE important thing to talk about and not about who copied what!!
The US Venture Capitalists invest more hundreds of millions of US Dollars in one day than German Venture Capitalists will invest in two years!
There I see a big issue.

German entrepreneurs have to fight for money out of their own private placements activities. And we all know! In web 2.0 only the idea can win which is backed with a lot of money!