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What Every European Startup Should Know: 10 Keys to Presenting Your Startup in the US
- mixmax 18y agoAs a European I found this article pretty interesting. And true. We Europeans are academics - we love a good argument just for the sake of it, we think before we talk, and our products (usually) don't crash. But we can't sell worth shit...
- jumper 18y agoI've no first hand knowledge of Europe, but given what I know of human nature, I'm pretty distrustful of someone describing a place the size of a continent as intellectual... still, it does make me kinda wish it were true! But I mean, honestly...
- mixmax 18y agoIt might be a overly broad, but I don't think its entirely untrue. Your mileage will vary of course - Spaniards and Brits are very different.
- ido 18y agoI think you could broadly divide Europe to 4 parts along the north/south axis and the west/east axis. I believe this thread pertains mostly to the northern and in particular north western part.
- guruz 18y ago... but not very humble, eh? :)
- jumper 18y ago"boutique consultancy"? I'm not sure whether to applaud for a precision application of language or cringe at the pretentiousness of a deluded grab at prestige....and of course on their main page they call themselves a "Customer Experience Strategy consultancy". Of course, I'm American, so maybe I'm just too unrefined to properly appreciate their own eloquently enhanced customer experience strategy. ;)
- ido 18y agoI don't know how you use "boutique" in the US, but it's a commonly used word around here (when speaking English anyway). I do think there is definitely a qualitative difference in the way people speak in Europe and in the US (also when speaking languages other than English). I was a bit surprised when I have heard a (supposedly, could have been Canadian AFAIK) American tourist saying something like "they were just a bunch of dudes hanging out" (she was a woman in her 40's, in Austria using an equivalent form of slang is something normally reserved to much younger people).
- jumper 18y agoIt was always amusing to me when my British drama teacher would use a word that Americans rarely use like "coach" or "metro" (as opposed to bus or subway). I had just big enough a vocabulary for it to be no effort for me to understand her, even if I never used such words personally, whereas everybody around me just went "huh?" I guess I'm finally noticing the times when I'm on the other side of that divide and have to really think about what the unfamiliar words mean in the given context.
- langer 18y ago11. Know your US-based competition inside out. One of the first questions you get asked will be about it.