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Most kids are (and have been for a while) taught English in schools. If you create your site with English as the first language you can target most European cou
by k-mcgrady 13y ago
Most kids are (and have been for a while) taught English in schools. If you create your site with English as the first language you can target most European countries + the US. Regarding company types you set up your business in the country you're based in - you don't need a separate company for every country you operate it. I believe the same applies to tax. You pay it in the country you are based in.
- ThomPete 13y agoYeah good luck building a startup in europe with that view. There is a reason why ex. Facbook localized their content.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoI's a strategy for getting the business going. Obviously you begin localising once you've got some traction.
- troels 13y agoNo, you need localisation to get traction. People are surprisingly fond of their own language, even if they are almost fluent in English. At least if you're dealing with consumers.
- raverbashing 13y agoIf you do localization, don't think only language will cut it. Address systems, payment systems, "simply taking credit cards" may not cut it. But in the end you have to launch targeting one or more countries, whatever comes beyond that is "free". And of course, you start from day 0 to make your system Unicode compliant.
- troels 13y agoCuriously, charsets actually is less of an issue within EU - Latin1 should cover. (Not that anyone should use that in a modern app today) But otherwise I agree with your sentiments - Language is just one of several problems. Most of which are external to the product.
- wolfgke 13y agoThe people's English is usually rather bad if they aren't higher educated (e. g. university degree).