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Ask HN: Could you run your startup from China?

3 points by c1sc0 16y ago

Every time China blocks another website I get a little uneasy about the prospect of moving to China and running a software business from there. I love being in that country & sure, a VPN helps out, but the political/business implications make me uncomfortable. I've been making this little mental list of 'minimum requirements' of products/services in order to run a business. Currently the google/twitter/facebook triad from that list has been blocked. I used to fear the day that more essential services would be blocked. That day came yesterday (Dropbox). So, which are the products/services your startup can't live without? Which websites, when blocked, would hurt your business?

gexla 16y ago
I'm in the Philippines and certain sites get blocked here also. It doesn't cause me much problems because I use my VPS as a proxy, but I don't really have high bandwidth needs. I have family in China though, I hear the internet connection is slow because of the filtering. That would be a concern of mine also.