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It's they took PGs advice...weird. http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html "[5] A friend who started a company in Germany to
by helveticaman 18y ago
It's they took PGs advice...weird.
http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
"[5] A friend who started a company in Germany told me they do care about the paperwork there, and that there's more of it. Which helps explain why there are not more startups in Germany."
- jk4930 18y agoWe still have a lot of "rule compliance costs", esp. when a company has employees, but you can hack this. In the worst case you just source this paper work out. The problem is more that Germany lost its startup-mentality. The last time we were a real startup country is 100 years ago.
- beza1e1 18y agoIn the times of the German Economic Miracle there must have been a great startup-mentality here. That has been roughly 50 years ago. And i'll throw Karlsruhe into the pot. It's called the internet capital of Germany, has lots of companies (especially web companies) and one of the best universities for computer science (and other technical fields). Living costs are relativly low.
- fbailey 18y agoI like Karlsruhe but I know nobody who calls Karlsruhe the internet capital of Germany. That goes to Berlin,Hamburg and Munich