{"id":2727,"date":"2013-05-21T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T22:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2013-05-21T17:01:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T22:01:24","slug":"thinking-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/05\/21\/thinking-international","title":{"rendered":"Thinking international"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"My favorite view. Don't listen to CNN, Seoul is awesome by byte, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/8719333410\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7382\/8719333410_305dc1e526_n.jpg?resize=320%2C320\" alt=\"My favorite view. Don't listen to CNN, Seoul is awesome\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The market is so small you have to think international&#8221; &#8211; Mattias Miksche, CEO, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stardoll.com\/en\/\">Stardoll<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jrl3Y951oQk\">TWIST#343<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Sweden has like 9 million people. They don&#8217;t think they need to &#8220;go global&#8221;. They start thinking global. The local market is too small. It&#8217;s not like the USA.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said the same thing about Malaysia (and Singapore) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/22\/a-few-thoughts-on-the-startup-ecosystem-in-malaysia\">before<\/a>: why are you building locally if you&#8217;re a web-shop? Build, test, prove yourself, but make sure you&#8217;re global. 28 million people separated by different language needs will ensure you don&#8217;t have much larger than the population of Sweden when it comes to launching a product.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>So don&#8217;t think about going global after a year. Think about being global from day one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Thinking%20international&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2Fthinking-international&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Sweden has like 9 million people. They don&#8217;t think they need to &#8220;go global&#8221;. They start thinking global. The local market is too small. It&#8217;s not like the USA. I&#8217;ve said the same thing about Malaysia (and Singapore) before: why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Thinking%20international&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2Fthinking-international&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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