Geography is a lever: bootstrap from wherever costs and rules favor you, and expect a connected world to stay gloriously different rather than converge into sameness.
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There used to be a time not too long ago (in the 60s) when the top UK income tax rate was 97.5%, the top US income tax rate was 94%. Granted these rates were for the 1%’s of that time. I suspect that these rates came as a response to the “Pay their fair share” crowd of that day. In other words these high marginal tax …
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Just came across this post about Starting an Internet Business in China, which covers some interesting things that you might not have thought about. Go read it yourself, but I’d just like to make a comment on his first point: “Hong Kong is your friend”. He points out that you should incorporate and bank in Hong Kong. …
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I had an great discussion the other day with a family member who argued that one of the problems with globalization was that in the end everything will be the same no matter where you go - the same food and the same music. Obviously if this were to be the case it would suck. I mean that would take all the fun out of …
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The imperial units such as pounds, inches and feet have been receiving a fair about of criticisms and ridicule in the blogosphere recently (of course I can’t find the posts I’ve stumbled upon recently). Around learned people and in international crowds this is bound to happen fairly often. Of course the battle has been …
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The other day I went to a lunch with the Silicon Vikings who are an association of Scandinavian’s and interested parties who meet up once a month to network and talk about specific issues. If you are Scandinavian and in the Bay area you should go, it is definitely and interesting crowd of Scandinavian’s who now call …
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I’m just back from a 1 month investigative journey to Buenos Aires (BA) in Argentina. The main purpose was to check out the suitability of the city and country as a temporary business base. I have been recommending for a while now the idea of Bootstrapping your business Globally as a temporary and fun way of cutting …
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I am Danish (well nearly ) and am currently operating my business out of Denmark. I have also had businesses in a variety of other countries, so I think I have a pretty good perspective of what you need in Denmark both for Danes, but also for foreign residents here. There is very little good information in English …
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I have started businesses in more than a few places now and I was thinking it would be really cool to have an unofficial bloggers guide to the legalities of starting a business in various places around the world. Current country guides: Denmark Panama Argentina I think would be great if other entrepreneurial bloggers …
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Nowadays businesses are moving all over the world to be flexible and cut costs. I am guessing that many small startups don’t think about this step. Chances are that you have had a fairly successfull career or a series of jobs, that have required that you live and work in a high cost area such as London, Boston, Bay …
