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You can't scale a typical startup in Europe. If you rely on pageviews alone, maybe, but your audience then is English anyhow, as local language stuff just does
by pinaceae 13y ago
You can't scale a typical startup in Europe.
If you rely on pageviews alone, maybe, but your audience then is English anyhow, as local language stuff just doesn't bring enough eyeballs.
If you rely on selling shit, then any US startup has a homogenous market of 313 million people, one legal framework and (roughly) one tax framework. In Europe? You're quite literally fucked.
A startup, by definition, is supposed to grow quickly. Which is inherently harder in Europe. Not starting in the US is quite frankly asinine.
/European myself, working for US startup, moving to US
- namdnay 13y agoFollowing your argument, it is "asinine" to create a startup in the USA, when China has a homogenous market of 1.3 billion people... There are markets, there are opportunities, there are startups. Each locale has advantages and disadvantages.
- pinaceae 13y agoahh, but not all of those 1.3bn are a part of the economy that can be targeted by a web startup. you need internet access, demand and cash on hand. but yes, outside of software, China is exactly for those reasons a great market (BMW sells more cars there than outside of China). however, it is hard to scale out of China, as the language kills you. once they embrace english, those web startups will start killing, no doubt.