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Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by tren »

patrickaljord wrote: post #371
davedx wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Conversely, not being based in the US comes with lots of disadvantages, such as terrible payment gateways, unfriendly tax and small business legislation, and smaller networks of entrepreneurs. Here in Ede, the Netherlands, I feel pretty isolated, and I imagine a lot of people in Europe also do unless they live somewhere like London or Amsterdam.

I live in Peru but created my corporation in the US in Delaware just to get the gateways and other US services.

I've also done this, it's not too hard. There are plenty of online services that let you setup an LLC in Delaware, LLCs have good benefits for non-residents.

You can then setup a business bank account as a non-residents using your LLC EIN, but I had to visit the US in person to do this.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by gbog »

kunley wrote: post #176
itmag wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Although many Europeans are at work and may not be on HN" Uhm, that's exactly why I'm on HN.

OT, but frankly such attitude is recurring and I can't imagine how it is compatible with HN "ethos". If you're at work, be effective there or change the work. What's to be so proud in slacking during work hours? Would you want such people working in your startup?

Most are not in startups I guess. For me it is the duty of your boss/company to give you enough interesting work that you don't even think about checking HN.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by mattm »

davedx wrote: post #386
patrickaljord wrote: post #371

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in Peru but created my corporation in the US in Delaware just to get the gateways and other US services.

Would you mind emailing me with a bit of info on how you go about doing that? I assume you're not a US citizen? I'd really appreciate some pointers. davedx@gmail.com :)

I would be interested as well - mattmccor@gmail.com

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by mkramlich »

m0th87 wrote: post #311

Being from the (rest of the) US, what disturbs me about this poll is how much entrepreneurial talent we might be missing out on. At current count, ~2/3 of readers are from outside the US. These results seem to be backed up by pitdesi's post. Since HN is so centered on startups, that's quite a few founders and potential entrepreneurs who could be working on the next Google. And all things being equal, there is a 2/3 c…

Alternately, they could always just SSH into the US. Much easier, faster, cheaper.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by jphackworth »

m0th87 wrote: post #311

Being from the (rest of the) US, what disturbs me about this poll is how much entrepreneurial talent we might be missing out on. At current count, ~2/3 of readers are from outside the US. These results seem to be backed up by pitdesi's post. Since HN is so centered on startups, that's quite a few founders and potential entrepreneurs who could be working on the next Google. And all things being equal, there is a 2/3 c…

All things being equal, there is a 2/3 chance that that next Google won't be happening in the US.

In this case, all things are not equal. Being located in the US and specifically in Silicon Valley makes a lot of venture-backed startup life easier, whether you need cofounders, investors, advisors, or employees. It's not a coincidence that Google, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Zynga, and Yahoo are all in the same area.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by mmahemoff »

gridspy wrote: post #398
pitdesi wrote: post #261

Another data point... This is a snapshot of our ( http://feefighters.com ) google analytics visitors page for this year (~70k visits), filtered for news.ycombinator.com: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3446069/Screenshots/bc.png US: 65%, CA: 7.4%, UK: 6.1%, Germany: 2.2%, Australia: 2.1%, India: 1.7%, Netherlands: 1%, France: 1% Drilling down within the US: New York: 8.8%, SF: 8.6%, Chicago: 4.6%, Seattle: 2.5%, Austin, LA,…

Does FeeFighters work outside of the United States? FeeFighters is able to help businesses in the United States and Canada. (Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam and US Commonwealths are excluded, sorry!) Does that skew your visitors towards USA? Totally. I'm from New Zealand. I've learnt not to click on links to payment processors or risk disappointment.

Or it's also possible their stats are skewed in the direction of non-US people desperate for a sane payment system.

But yeah, major risk of bias one way or the other.

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