Let me give you a real world data point. I'm in the UK. With a bootstrapped startup. I get no problems contacting US companies. Each upper level manager, VP

Let me give you a real world data point. I'm in the UK. With a bootstrapped startup. I get no problems contacting US companies. Each upper level manager, VP or even CEO that I contact are all excited about the project. Have no issues getting a service provider onboard. Juxtapose this with a UK or EU company, where lets face it. There's no bootstrap startup culture at all. Anyway, here's my anecdotes:- - If I contact the sales or info mailbox on the website. I don't get a response. Even after 2 or 3 more follow ups. - If I contact the sales team by phone, no one is ever available. They are permanently busy. - If I do manage to get in contact with someone, they tell me to send information over and they don't call back. - If I do manage to get a VP/Director email address. I send out the initial email and then I hear silence back. Follow on emails just get ignored. The US and UK/Europe mentality are completely different. In the US you can start in your basement, garage or even on the streets and fight your way to a unicorn. There is infrastructure available to make a success and everyone has a vested interest in that. In the UK/Europe it seems, the general feeling that I get. Is that unless you have sold a major stake to a VC/Accelerator, there's no way you'll succeed! Also everyone wants a slice of your company for free because in all honesty, they are a bunch of freeloaders. I've had 5 instances already of companies telling me they can partner with me for 5-10% of equity. I just ignore them.