I want to work on making this company something amazing for many years to come and not to burn out or lose myself in it. I also consider Globig a marathon, not a sprint. Although I’m still on the early side of startup life, it’s the most fun I’ve ever had working, is challenging in every possible way, and crazy exciting. Globig feels right to me, even though it’s a 16-hour per day job every day. For the most part though, I’m moderately calm, focused, enthusiastic, and confident. I have moments of fear, doubt, and anxiety. I get asked a lot if I’m stressed out, since many entrepreneurs and startup founders exude and even thrive on tension, anxiety, and intense stress. I want to work on making this company something ‘I also consider Globig a marathon, not a sprint. ![]() If companies don’t have an international lawyer, accountant, or banker, Globig will recommend qualified vetted experts to hire. After careful consideration, we decided that beyond offering general information in the areas of taxes, business entity creation, and financing, those aspects of a business are best handled by a company’s legal, accounting, and banking teams. We’ve mostly focused Globig around gaining the knowledge to develop an effective strategy, go-to-market, regulatory compliance, product localization, human resources and employment law, licensing, and exporting/importing as well as access to vetted experts in each local area that could provide advice and consulting. After doing research and confirming that there is currently no good or affordable process for global expansion for most companies, I selected a number of areas related to going international that are difficult, scary, and time-consuming for companies, but if solved could immediately save time, money, and reduce uncertainty. I also wanted to identify what aspects of this fairly broad topic to focus on for Phase 1. Prior to leaving my job, I interviewed 20+ people at companies who are already doing business in different countries or are considering expanding globally, just to make sure that the idea I had was viable. And that in spite of the fact that we received 10x-15x the international inquiries for the product versus what we were getting at home. A couple of times our teams ultimately decided not to pursue international markets because we just didn’t have the time or internal support needed to work on an international strategy. In previous jobs, often my teams were tasked with figuring out how to export, the triggers for taxation, regulatory issues, cultural considerations, localization, licensing, tariffs, HR, visas etc., and that process required spending hundreds of hours per country researching online, speaking with government agencies, looking for anecdotal guidance from other companies that had already gone through the process and could give us advice on how they approached it, looking for experts we could trust, and simple trial and error. ![]() These companies are doing the best they can with minimal resources and are most likely assigning pieces of global expansion to anyone in-house who can spare some extra time or is willing to add it to their already full plate. None of the companies I worked at had the budget to hire ‘experts’ for every aspect and I’ve since learned that over 75% of companies who are going abroad today don’t have the means to outsource the entire process to consultants but would like to get help as needed. ‘Over 75% of companies who are going abroad It’s time-consuming, complex, high risk, and there is really no clear ‘path’ or step-by-step support system available to accelerate the process. The problem I’m tackling is the reality that expanding into international markets is hard, not knowing what’s important to know, not knowing who to work with, not understanding the culture and regulatory environment is way too complicated. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a while, and I did it to solve what has been a major pain for me at several companies where I’ve worked. Use the list below to identify which features are supported by your email provider, and which require a connected inbox.I left a great job at a technology company in the summer of 2015 to start my own company. Some features in HubSpot require a connected inbox, or aren't supported by every email provider. You can also send emails from HubSpot using your own email servers. ![]() ![]() For example, you can automatically log email replies to contact records in HubSpot or include file attachments in your emails. With a connected email, you can take full advantage of the HubSpot tools.
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