1 day vs 10 years in Germany | starting a Business 👨‍🔧

Would you start a startup in Germany? I know I wouldn't^^

[eray]

As a Dutchman, Germany feels like you're going back in time 20-25 years. It also feels like they've missed the whole digitalization thing.

[sabinewagner]

😂😂 Bureaucracy is the art of making possible impossible 😂😂

[SIDotaku]

If there's one thing people UNDER appreciate about the U.S, it's the sheer drive and positivity around entrepreneurship

[michaelpease]

I started a local service business in Oklahoma USA with about 5 total forms including banking accounts and IRS registration. I don't have any employees so it was incredibly simple. That was two years ago and I'm still going! Every day is a nail biting, stressful, glorious roller coaster ride. Wouldn't have it any other way.

[recreationp]

In Kazakhstan you register a company within one day and then open a bank account and submit required documentation in 2-3 more days. Almost all of it is made online. Within a working week you can start to do business legally

[pfnspetsnaz]

Man wore the same shirt for 10 yrs. That's dedication

[nunyabidness]

A friend living in Spain told me it would have taken months to open a bakery. She moved to the states and within 2 weeks she was up and running. P.S. it was Indiana, not California.

[TReXcuRRy]

As a frenchman, I can assure you, you have not seen bureaucracy at its worst.

[lolakuty-toio]

Germany is the reason for Kafka's literature.

[scottredmond]

Gotta give credit to this guy for spending 10 years in Germany just for a yt short👍

[Therton]

In Poland you can register your company in about 2 hours and you can make everything via website.

[EzekielBrockmann]

I opened a business in Estonia in a couple of hours. Paying back taxes was also super easy, I set up a repayment schedule in about 15 minutes. It was all so quick amd painless, I loved the process, actually. I was respected.

[PopulousTutorials]

he left 10 years later, and after 2 months in the states, he texts an email" "your business in germany has been accepted"

[emilerhard]

Exit Form is the only thing that keeps us here

[Kitopa]

I started a pressure washing business in the US, filled out paperwork, sales and use tax. Didn't make a single sale (lacked capital and experience, plus I got hired to pressure wash by another company) a year later I got all kinds of things in the mail about my business. "you owe $750, no you owe $1000, we will seize your property unless you pay your remaining balance of $0.00"
I finally reached out to the people, THEY CLOSED MY ACCOUNT FOR ME AND I DIDNT PAY A PENNY!! Much easier than expected, as an absolute novice that knows nothing, I recommend

[lemonaid]

The Germans have always loved their paperwork. So much they spent a decade or so forcing you to show it.

[jomanaitor]

bureaucracy in europe is legendary.

here in spain is the same, tons of paperwork written in the most formal and weird spanish you can get, and when you try to call and get some answers they don't know a damn thing.

you end up paying another company to deal with all of this crap for you

[BNBPhotofr]

You haven't seen Belgium yet, 11 million inhabitants, 7 governments.

[geraldbouvy]

And then he moves to america and finds out about "build back better."

[christiandenzler]

10 years in Germany and he still does not realise that Switzerland is the richest country 😂