Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star...
by narag on Monday February 06, 2017 @07:47AM
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Then the opportunity could be creating a company that solves these problems for other companies.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star...
by csl on Monday February 06, 2017 @08:01AM
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So, a consultancy company then? Which we all know only scales with the number of employees.
Most people in Europe use Gmail, right? So they must already have figured out this stuff.
Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star...
by matthewmacleod on Monday February 06, 2017 @09:26AM
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No, I don't think that's necessary. It immediately seems like a platform specifically designed to support things like EU-wide compliance, marketing, payments and other business functions could potentially be beneficial to a wide variety of businesses.
Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star...
by fragmede on Monday February 06, 2017 @11:54AM
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Selling Gmail (ad's or hosted apps) isn't intra-EU trade (in so far as Google's an American company headquartered in Mountain View, though they do have many offices in the EU).
The implication of a consultancy company is that their work is done ad-hoc and in a one-off fashion, requiring lots of work from the company which stupidly only scales with the number of employees.
Software that successfully automated away the most toilsome parts of the job, allowing a handful of people to support intra-EU between any of the 28 member countries would do quite well.