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Advice for UK startups targeting the US

Started by brisbourne · 6 months ago

Nigel Eccles CEO of prediction game site Hubdub has a guest post on Techrunch UK this morning with ten pieces of sound advice for startups looking to target the US from the UK. In a nutshell USAify yourself - including taking the for me painful step of using US English. Nigel is speaking [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • We did some work on this stuff, been meaning to respond but combo of time / NDA gets in way - plus hate always seeming to be the nay-sayer. Anyway, Issue is not in early stage, but when you have to defend a contested market from 6,000 miles and a 6 hour time difference.
  • Was just thinking - what's your blog readership split Nic - and will you use US English ;)
  • Hi Alan - you are right, it isn't easy to go to the US. But it isn't impossible either, and no business is easy :)

    And my readership is well over 50% European, so I will be making the queen and Prince Charles happy by using 'u's and 's's where they should be used!
  • Having worked in the US for 6 years I can honestly say that targetting the US from the UK is very difficult unless you have a committed long term investment, and people on the ground (preferably locals) who understand your buisness model inside out.US English is reasonably important, although I think that US Contract lawyers won't shout too loudly about this, as if provides some easy additional billable hours :)

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