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"Should a Start-up Focus on Going Global Right Away?"
- davidw 19y agoI thinks 'no'. Betters to dominate an initial niche rather than try and take on the whole world. That's the conventional wisdom, at least.
- ivankirigin 19y agoThat assumes the niche is centered geographically in the west. Online video is an example where lots of people have interest. I see some limitations with tools like PayPal unable to operate in certain countries. Also, translation is lots of work, best left for later. But the biggest reason I think it makes sense to keep the rest of world in mind: there are hundreds of millions of potential users. I don't say billions because the percentage of the world connected to the internet isn't big enough.
- davidw 19y agoSure, keep it in mind, but be keep in mind the tradeoffs that might be necessary to focus on i18n and globalization rather than features.
- danw 19y agoGive this a read: http://www.shirky.com/writings/situated_software.html http://www.shirky.com/writings/situated_software.html
- run4yourlives 19y agoI think that would depend entirely on the startup, no? You're not going to get useful answers unless you ask a useful question... perhaps some more info?
- epi0Bauqu 19y agoIf it is easy, why not? You never know where your startup is going to take off.