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Yes. Also France made a real big effort to protect its agriculture, wine and luxury industry. LVHM grew and flourished, but there was no love for the software
by makeitdouble 4y ago
Yes. Also France made a real big effort to protect its agriculture, wine and luxury industry.
LVHM grew and flourished, but there was no love for the software industry. I kinda think there was no alternative scenario where it would have worked out, culturally most people really don't give a damn.
Also having a smaller internal market makes it harder to bootstrap new ideas to a decent size before getting it out. Even now successful startups might target France and Spain, but going beyond seems to be a very hard sell while the EU is supposed to make it easier in theory.
- courgette 4y agoI’ve seen the market thing play out first hand : my former company was dominant in France ( in a tiny niche market ) But that was bringing just enough to get by. Then we expanded to Italy and Germany with great effort. Each country was a whole new market with different regulations, customer expectations and so on. We ended up spreading ourself very thin. In insight, we also made mistakes, but that was not helping that each next 500 deployment was a large, hard to quantify effort.
- golemiprague 4y ago[dead]