It is interesting to read this from Sten having heard him speak a few times about improving work relations between the US and Europe (ostensibly Estonia) while at Skype. Having spent significant time working at Nokia (and interacting with Finns, Estonians, and Germans) as well as living in Helsinki and Germany for a period of time, I usually found his prior discussions missing something -- but maybe I was coming at it from a different perspective than the typical Silicon Valley engineer. I will need to reread this.

Personally, I would like to hear more from entrepreneurs in Berlin, London, and Helsinki on how they view the interaction. Berlin is a current hotbed, Helsinki has a few more international startups, and London is english speaking and a tech center as well.

I'd like to see more interaction between the Valley and Europe with startups originating cross culturally. Build on the strengths of both regions and less of things like the Samwer brothers that basically copycat things.

Locally, there is certainly an echo chamber in the Valley. Lots of press/blog inches dedicated to social and the hip/popular startups in San Francisco. In other parts of the Valley (Fremont down to Almaden Valley) you have many startups working more internationally with components in Asia and Europe depending on their focus -- hardware, etc.