{"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":"https:\/\/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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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\" \/><\/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=\"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The market is so small you have to think international&#8221; &#8211; Mattias Miksche, CEO, Stardoll\u00a0(TWIST#343). 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","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,1405],"tags":[1368],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-malaysia-thoughts","tag-go-global"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-HZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}