TECH CRUNCH — Oct 26 — MySpace has decided to throw in the towel with regards to its expansion in The Netherlands. MySpace had opened up an Amsterdam office merely 9 months ago but has now announced it will shut…

But on the other hand, entrepreneurs can’t just get any Tom, Dick or Harry to be their biz partners – because that would be tantamount to a business suicide! Hence, there is a great deal of opportunities out there for bloggers and freelancers around the world – as more and more entrepreneurs look toward bridging the “skills” gap within their own team – via cost effective means – cost-effective viral marketing (bloggers with broad audience reach might just do the trick) & cost effective product development/improvements (eg, hire a freelance Ruby on Rails programmer at half the cost of a full-time programmer).

They force those American companies to set up shop there and hire local people and to have a corporation lead by natives of the country there to do business in that country.

Such as Microsoft Canada board members are not the same as Microsoft USA board members.

So what usually ends up happening is that N company of X foreign country wants to usurp some American brand cash, so they set up Y branch of Z American company trying to leverage the American brand name in their nation.

This employs people that would otherwise be out of work and possibly on unemployment or homeless in their less than great country.

When that doesn’t work the company will operate outside of the country and pay import/export taxes which often times are super heavy handed. AFA selling internet advertising across borders, I’m pretty sure they can get around that pretty easily.

That is not the case when you sell physical goods in another country. Such as boxed software. In that case you need a distributor there at the very least because the border tariffs are set to force companies to do business in that country whether they like it or not, in order to have access to that market.

Again, in the case of selling virtual goods such as adverts, this is most likely bypassed completely, or passed on to advertisers who have no choice but to pay the international markup to do business with that big brand.

Global business strategy is far more complex than saying our people’s product is better.

Then he praised the Germans for their stoutness and business sense.