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Not that anyone would actually want to have a company in Albania, unless they had to. Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Gibraltar, Malta etc. are good options in Europ
by gozo 11y ago
Not that anyone would actually want to have a company in Albania, unless they had to. Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Gibraltar, Malta etc. are good options in Europe.
- s3nnyy 11y agoSwitzerland is also good. Very low taxes, high living standard, well-educated workforce, rule of law etc. Read my story here: "Eight reasons why I moved to Switzerland": https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-to-switzerland-to-work-in-it-c7ac18af4f90 https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t... - If you are interested in coming to Switzerland, just shoot me a mail.
- StavrosK 11y agoSuper high cost of living too, though.
- hobo_mark 11y agoSwitzerland is good if you are an employee, bootstrapping there is financial suicide.
- s3nnyy 11y agoIf you need to hire software engineers onsite, I would not go for Switzerland, that is true. But it goes both ways. Switzerland is one of the few countries where employees do not need to work five days a week to pay the bills. Some tend to work Monday-Wednesday, because 60-80% of a middle-class salary is enough to live on. On Thursday and Friday one can chill or bootstrap something.
- hobo_mark 11y agoI keep hearing this myth, yet I know plenty who work effectively six-plus days work-weeks and zero doing part-time (at least in engineering)...
- s3nnyy 11y agoTalk to the guys from "Ergon Informatik" for instance - a Java shop from Zurich. Many of their engineers choose to do home-office on Thursday and not work on Friday.
- S4M 11y agoI read your blog post, but it seems that you aren't running a startup in Switzerland, just being an employee.
- s3nnyy 11y agoSwitzerland is more company-friendly than Germany and other countries in Europe. That is all I wanted to say. I never claimed that I run anything although I plan to start a consulting business on the side.
- smcl 11y agoNot to mention right next door to Albania there's Montenegro which was getting a lot of coverage for being welcoming to newly incorporating startups (also their cctld is .me which is nice)