April 2026
Intermediate
7 pages
17m
English
When expanding, should you try to learn early product lessons from consumers close to home, or leap right into a foreign target market? Here’s how to choose.
For tech companies worldwide, expanding into a new market is both a rite of passage and a moment of truth. It represents the transition from early promise to meaningful scale — an opportunity to increase revenue, signal growth potential to investors, and unlock powerful sources of differentiation, such as network effects and economies of scale.
But for every company that expands successfully, many more struggle. Some push into new geographies or industry segments only to stall; others retreat ...
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