Major_Grooves

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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
It is not just that, it is how difficult it is to invest into a German company afterwards, requiring each individual investor to visit a notary. We had some investors refuse to invest in us as a German company because it was just too much h
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
I'd rather say everyone else focussed too much on the "in German" part. That really was the least of the problem with the process. wrt to my "tone" - that is rather a stylistic thing - I am trying to write with a bi
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
tbh i was a bit surprised the other day when I got a pre-paid SIM card the other day that we had to do a video-ident session to use it!
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
I'm joking about going to prison and possibly losing a kidney because of a PoA.
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
No misrepresentation. Not even really any exaggeration I would say. Some attempts at humour, yes (like the PoA bit).ie I was aware the PoA would not affect my kidneys.
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
if I recall correctly, we could open the bank account before the company was properly registered but we only had something like 30days to submit the registration documents.
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
I don't think there is any way you can describe that process that I list in the post as "very easy".
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
well that was rather my point. Estonia makes it easy for non-Estonians to incorporate there. Germany should do similar.
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
yes, they do well. However, I think they would do better by making the business registration process more accessible to outsiders.
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
maybe to expand - this isn't really about me. I managed successfully and now have my company. but there is a reason that a significant proportion of the startups in Germany were UK Ltds until Brexit cooled that down. I don't take
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
that is pretty much what I mean. People take what I wrote as an insult to the German language and country. I love Germany, and the language. I learned it and gained German citizenship. I want the country to succeed and do well. Currently, t
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
yeah I did edit the article afterwards to admit the comment was flippant and explain what I really meant. Language is the small part of the problem here. Really, it is the process that is bad.
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
once upon a time people would just register in the UK, to make things simpler. Biggest example is Soundcloud that started as a UK Ltd. However since Brexit, nobody does that. We considered incorporating as a US company, but that seemed OTT.
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
That is wilfully distorting what I have written. I have learnt German. I speak fluent German. I am German. The language is only one part of what makes it complicated. It is very difficult for Germans too. Nevertheless, the whole process sho
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
OP here - the holding companies are indeed for obligatory, but they are what nearly all startup founders do for tax efficiency. We took a 1.2M € investment round. Investors do not want to invest that into anything other than a "proper&
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Just how complicated could it be to register a German company?(major-grooves.medium.com)
228 points by Major_Grooves 4y ago|405 comments
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by Major_Grooves 4y ago
Oh boy. The ol "wasn't ready for HN" problemo. Good luck with that one! Cool product of course. ;)
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Entity Resolution: Reflections on the most common data science challenge(tilores.io)
60 points by Major_Grooves 4y ago|8 comments
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Is Elasticsearch suitable for entity resolution?(medium.com)
1 points by Major_Grooves 4y ago|0 comments
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I received emails when prospects tested our competitors(major-grooves.medium.com)
1 points by Major_Grooves 4y ago|0 comments
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Using Dyson Sphere Program to tile the world for data geolocation(youtube.com)
1 points by Major_Grooves 5y ago|0 comments
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by Major_Grooves 5y ago
Sounds interesting. Currently, we provide TiloDB on AWS serverless, and could also port it to GCP fairly easily. We cannot yet go to Azure, as they lack some equivalent technologies. What are your thoughts on serverless?
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by Major_Grooves 5y ago
you make a very good point. In fact, we just came out of a call with a very knowledgable investor who wants us to go down exactly that route. It could very well be that the managed service route is the way to go. Thanks for the comment. If
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by Major_Grooves 5y ago
no I had not seen them. Thanks - I will check it out.
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by Major_Grooves 5y ago
You would be able to access everything via the GraphQL API to integrate into existing applications.
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by Major_Grooves 5y ago
I'd be very interested to hear peoples' thoughts on OSS licences. We are rather new to that world so very rapidly learning about the difference between Open Core, Elastic 2.0 and Apache Licence etc. What licence should a new compa
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by Major_Grooves 5y ago
Thanks for your question. You are right - it is not an easy business to start. Investors are more used to open source projects that are already released and have community adoption that they can measure. We are kinda the opposite - enterpri
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by Major_Grooves 5y ago
the real technical challenge is the "transitive hop" problem that we describe. The matching of the data is not so complicated - that can be done with any technology - but searching with Data A, and getting result Z - that was the
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by Major_Grooves 5y ago
Is there any limitation to this in terms of AWS's T&Cs?
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by Major_Grooves 5y ago
This blog post from the CTO of VMware and Springsource, gives a pretty good summary of the entity-resolution field: https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/12/14/entity-resolution/

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