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An SOS to Silicon Valley
- alecco 18y agoAs a foreigner, the problem I see with Silicon Valley is the US-centric business models. A typical web page engine and backend has English and US-dollar so hardwired the standard solution is to just open up a separate store on each country from ground up. Typical issues are pricing, product listing and descriptions, data transfer interfaces, APIs, and sales tax calculation. Something that should take a day of work to do often ends in "we can't do it without affecting the main site negatively." The irony is many of the Valley's entrepreneurs are foreign themselves.