Prague beats Berlin with its tech scene, could challenge London in the future

Berlin has got SoundCloud, 6Wunderkinder, Wooga, and a few others. Although Berlin companies are great, the hype around Berlin as a city is perhaps even bigger. I think it started with the Jamba brothers, I mean, Samwer brother copycats. Jamba was quite a big exit for them (although wrote-off by both its buyers Verisign and Fox Mobile. I was in the same business at the time, and selling ringtone subscriptions to small children on their or their parents phones for a few dollars a week is on the edge of good ethics (rip-off), or sometimes the law). One thing some Berlin tech companies have in common is, they are not run by German founders – thats not the case in Prague. What Berlin will quickly run into is a shortage of developer talent. Prague has a huge developer talent, with a potential to tap into towns around it and also Slovakia much easier than Berlin can. What is also great in Prague, lots of these developers still work at “boring” big companies, outsourcing companies, that could quickly move to start international start-ups.