Freelancing in Europe is most of the time very similar to be a full time employee. You have to show up at your customer's premises and work for 8/9 hours with t

Freelancing in Europe is most of the time very similar to be a full time employee. You have to show up at your customer's premises and work for 8/9 hours with the other employees. No way to deal with more than one client at the time, unless you start working 16 hours a day - which I'm not afraid of - but it's not a sustainable model on the long run. So, no, I don't think that being a freelance is equivalent to running my own company. We had multiple problems in my company. The main one, I think, was new clients acquisition. It is a very time consuming process that often results in lot of (paper) work and meetings and no contract signed. Another mistake, as I mentioned, was not focusing on one or two specific geographical markets. Flying people around Europe, paying them hotel/food and daily allowances it is costly and reduces the margins greatly. Not to mention the language problem: very often, if you want to work in Germany (just an example) you got to speak the language.