Why Brussels is the chosen city « TEDxBrussels Blog: "Anything started from California in Brussels seems to take off immediately, more than any other city in the world, Brussels and San Francisco for some odd reason mingle. TEDxBrussels is the largest TEDx in the world; The Founder Institute Brussels is the second biggest in the world (next to New York) and the recently started Quantified Self Group is starting to gain traction although it was originally only meant to take off in January 2011."