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A comment on Ask HN: Where to start an international SaaS company (as a South African).

Re:Ask HN: Where to start an international SaaS company (as ... by sjducb on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:34PM (#33280307)
There are a lot of factors to consider. This is quite a good overview.

https://nomadcapitalist.com/entrepreneurs/best-country-onlin...

Instinctively I would agree with the blog and say Georgia. Lithuania is a strong option too, especially if it's fintech.

However your most likely failure mode is that no-one uses your SAAS. I would just make it, start operating out of a personal bank account, then worry about registering it and making it official when youre making enough money that a taxman might care.

In my first company I wasted so much time registering trademarks and legal stuff. Really I should have just started selling, realized that the buisness model didn't work and failed faster.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to start an international SaaS company (as ... by duncanphillips on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:54AM (#33285286)
Really interesting, I wasn't considering Eastern Europe. The article does a great job talking about a lot of the considerations, but I have a gut feeling that operating from a country where I'm not very familiar with their language and political stability will be harder in the long term.

Its a good point on the trademarks and all the legal stuff, thanks.

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