Guides

Each tool is tagged: China friendliness · integration difficulty · KYC

01

Step One: Choosing Your Overseas Entity

Picking an overseas entity is the first hurdle for most China-based founders going global. This guide focuses on four common options — US C-Corp (Atlas), Hong Kong Ltd, Singapore Pte Ltd, and BVI/Cayman — with selection criteria, annual costs, and best-fit profiles.

02

Charging Global Customers: Stripe vs PayPal vs Airwallex

Collecting money is the first practical engineering problem when going global. This piece skips the marketing copy and focuses on what China-based teams actually experience: fees, KYC friction, payout paths to China, and how to combine these tools.

03

Compliance Basics for Going Global: Privacy, Cookies, GDPR

Privacy policies, cookie consent, and GDPR/CCPA are the most commonly skipped pre-launch items. Below is a same-day minimum-viable compliance checklist.

04

SaaS Internationalization: Localization and Multi-Currency Pricing

Translating to English is only step one of i18n. This guide focuses on three things that actually move the needle: engineering-grade localization, multi-currency pricing, and SEO alignment with hreflang.

05

Cold-Starting International Marketing: Content, SEO, Social

The 0-to-1000-user phase is where most global products stall. Here is a value-for-effort ranking of three cold-start channels — content sites, SEO landing pages, and social (X / LinkedIn / Reddit) — plus the budget traps solo founders fall into.

06

Supporting International Users: Email, Chat, Status, and Time Zones

International users have different support expectations — they prefer email, status pages, and help centers, and tolerate asynchronous chat well. Here is a 0-to-1 support stack for small teams.