shame, no mention of china, at least from what i scrolled through. china has a relatively low cost of living (food, housing, etc) and excellent infrastructure in 2nd tier+ cities. the talent pool can be somewhat mixed, i don't think you'll find very many rails or django developers, but each year there are over half a million university graduates in engineering/computer science.
in terms of living here, english doesn't go very far so if you've got any chinese speaking ability, this would be a great place for you to start something.
i'd recommend setting up LLC and so forth back at your home country and just running the show remotely.
but like the poster says, the environment is probably the single most important aspect, for that i would say that nobody beats the valley.
if language is an issue, hong kong/singapore are options, though they're too costly, but the infrastructure is first rate.
i hear in china that you can get special funding from the government to open offices here where the benefit for china is that it produces more jobs for the high tech industry. sometimes free rent + utilities. anyway, some things to think about, i know when i worked with dextrys, they mentioned that to me, i'm not sure how they arranged this though.
in terms of living here, english doesn't go very far so if you've got any chinese speaking ability, this would be a great place for you to start something.
i'd recommend setting up LLC and so forth back at your home country and just running the show remotely.
but like the poster says, the environment is probably the single most important aspect, for that i would say that nobody beats the valley.
if language is an issue, hong kong/singapore are options, though they're too costly, but the infrastructure is first rate.
i hear in china that you can get special funding from the government to open offices here where the benefit for china is that it produces more jobs for the high tech industry. sometimes free rent + utilities. anyway, some things to think about, i know when i worked with dextrys, they mentioned that to me, i'm not sure how they arranged this though.