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what's stopping you from doing a web(I'm guessing) startup outside of United States?

• CyberFonic 18y ago
  You don't say where you came to Singapore from. I'm guessing that it took you and your family sacrifices to put together $65,000. In a place like Silicon Valley, such a small amount of money (by USA standards) would not last long. If you were to go to a more affordable part of the USA then you might as well be working from where you are now. If your ideas are good, then register a .com domain name, and market it solidly. At the very least, your burn rate will be much lower and you will have more time to make your vision a success.
• dryicerx 18y ago
  This is my question as well. Your website seems to be very web-centric business (according to your user page), what is it that you cannot accomplish regarding this remotely?
  • jerryji 18y ago
    Fist of all, I must thank all who have taken the time to read and/or comment on my post. However, the fact that US (or more specifically, Silicon Valley) has given birth to more successful high tech companies per square mile than has anywhere else in the world is not incidental. Being able to grow a startup in the fertile land of Silicon Valley means closer access to a wide array of different classes of investors, world-class peer entrepreneurs/technologists, and active and mature users, all of which are big advantages over startups elsewhere -- even with the high cost of living taken into consideration. After all, it's like telling a minority student who was rejected by a top university for (disputablely) unfair reasons that she doesn't need to go to college to succeed, sure the statement could be true -- just unfortunately not statistically.