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Europe might not be one country, but in Europe, you have many very high level education systems and no restrictions on travel and work(within the EU). This lead

by yawaworht1978 5y ago

Europe might not be one country, but in Europe, you have many very high level education systems and no restrictions on travel and work(within the EU). This leads to mind and culture share between some very bright people, European start ups are the companies I have worked with which had the most efficient and impressive work flows, coordination and motivation. I think this is an advantage compared to the unified systems like China. I can't speak for Chinese companies, but I have peeked around on job review sites to get some insights and what i have seen is....different. I have also worked at some of the largest us companies, they are very good, but also a bit different. All of them can lead to success, i don't think one is better than the other.

qnsi 5y ago
Though the fact that EU is a group of 27 different countries creates barrier to easy scaling. You need to have website in 20 something languages, customer service in those languages, and be knowledgable of cultural differences. This is the reason many companies first scale nationally and then go to the USA (at least that's the story I heard a lot). Edit: Also I forgot national law. Even though a lot of law is centralized on EU level, still every country has a national law different from neighbours
- ivan_gammel 5y ago
  Just wanted to add national law to the list, when noticed your update. IMHO this is the biggest challenge: if you do your org and tech setup right, localizing websites and CS is relatively easy and can become a SOP, but adjusting the processes and even just understanding how you should work in new legal environment is a real problem (I have experience of scaling healthtech from Germany to 9 more EU countries in less than a year).
anonuser123456 5y ago
I don't think Europe has a problem with brains. But European governments seem to want to crush companies that begin to dominate the market, regardless of whether this dominance is based on a better product or anticompetitive practices.

qnsi 5y ago

Though the fact that EU is a group of 27 different countries creates barrier to easy scaling. You need to have website in 20 something languages, customer service in those languages, and be knowledgable of cultural differences. This is the reason many companies first scale nationally and then go to the USA (at least that's the story I heard a lot). Edit: Also I forgot national law. Even though a lot of law is centralized on EU level, still every country has a national law different from neighbours

ivan_gammel 5y ago
Just wanted to add national law to the list, when noticed your update. IMHO this is the biggest challenge: if you do your org and tech setup right, localizing websites and CS is relatively easy and can become a SOP, but adjusting the processes and even just understanding how you should work in new legal environment is a real problem (I have experience of scaling healthtech from Germany to 9 more EU countries in less than a year).

anonuser123456 5y ago

I don't think Europe has a problem with brains. But European governments seem to want to crush companies that begin to dominate the market, regardless of whether this dominance is based on a better product or anticompetitive practices.