Irish startup. Paypal don't even offer payments pro here even though their euro hq is in North Dublin. For my MVP I did the following: I was reading HN, simila

Irish startup. Paypal don't even offer payments pro here even though their euro hq is in North Dublin. For my MVP I did the following: I was reading HN, similar thread to this and one of the Stripe boys was giving his tuppence ha'penny - having read his contribution I emailed him for a beta invite (I have a US SSN and bank account). I was able to get payments running with active merchant in a very short time despite the fact I'm very inexperienced. No dealing with the disaster zone that is the Irish banking system, no paypal worries. For someone hacking together an MVP (me) it was a massive hurdle overcome with relative ease. Sadly I think Stripe require the ssn (it is/was possible to open a us bank account without), perhaps one of their reps could confirm this? Agree with the UK poster it isn't easy doing startup stuff in this part of the old world, it certainly pays to have one foot in the States if you can manage it.