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Why Europe's Startups Can't Scale: Regulatory Fragmentation & the Hidden Growth Tax
Europe’s single market has 500 million customers — but for startups, scaling across it means re-entering a new legal, tax, and compliance regime in every country. This scale-up series episode names the cost: a “hidden growth tax” of regulatory fragmentation that makes cross-border seed deals close 3–5× slower than in the US and pushes founders to incorporate in Delaware.
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Why this episode matters: Capital gaps are visible; friction is invisible — and it quietly drains time, money, and momentum from European…
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