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I'm wondering why on earth, literally, I would want to start another one in the U.S. The US is still in the top 10 list of countries with the fewest headaches
by starkfist 17y ago
I'm wondering why on earth, literally, I would want to start another one in the U.S.
The US is still in the top 10 list of countries with the fewest headaches for starting a business. In addition, it's the biggest market for almost everything. If you want to sell in the US (which you almost certainly do) you'll have to establish a business entity there, anyway.
- david927 17y agoThe EU is a bigger market, overall. And as China knows, you can sell to places without being there.
- xiaoma 17y agoThe EU isn't really a single market. While Amazon.com, Yahoo, Google, MS and others were able to start with a single product or service for the entire country, they each have many multiple offerings in various EU countries. You can't just make a quality OS or a website in English and start selling all over Europe. You can do that in the US and be a market leader in every state.
- david927 17y agoA market isn't a language. (And by the way, a "quality OS" that only supports English is a bit of an oxymoron.) The EU has no internal borders; it is a single market on a single currency.
- jrmg 17y agoThat's not actually true. It's [arguably] a single market, but it's not a single currency - large parts of the EU do not use the Euro (Britain, Sweden, Denmark and all of the newer entrants to name a few - it's only I use by 16 of the 27 member states).
- ubernostrum 17y agoThe EU is a bigger market, overall. And it's far from homogeneous in terms of laws which would apply to you doing business in its various member nations.