Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

Post by xpda » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 10:49 PM UTC

Post by drumdance » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 11:15 PM UTC

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.

Post by mattm » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 11:53 PM UTC

davedx wrote: post #319

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…

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.

Post by escusado » Fri, Dec 02, 2011, 12:00 AM UTC

Post by jasonwilk » Fri, Dec 02, 2011, 12:35 AM UTC