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You shouldn’t. Not the whole thing anyway.   We moved our first company from Copenhagen to Silicon Valley back in 1997 - lock, stock and barrel. At that time there were not so many choices. Staying in Denmark with no venture capital, a miniscule market, and 6000 miles away from the center of our industry was not a viable choice. 

  Nowadays (startups) don’t need to move your whole company - you can “split the difference”. You can have a technology team in Copenhagen, an engineering team in Kyiv, and a commercial and executive presence in Palo Alto. We just couldn’t do that back in 1997.  

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