http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings
But their reported procedures/costs differ from what you wrote:
http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/denmark/#...
Something that's nice in the US as compared to most continental European countries is that no 'initial capital' is required.
Over the past few decades we got our rules "synced" to the rest of the EU (or the rest of the world). We now have several forms of limited liability companies. The capital requirement ranges from approx. 0.20 USD (IVS) to 100.000 USD (A/S) (or more ... if you want to make a bank).
It used to be that to do a Danish LLC you had to put up at least 20.000 USD in capital but because of the EU you could just go to the UK and start a LLC with no/very little capital there and then operate in DK with the same creditor protection.
Anyways; the point was that in many places creating a company is of very little trouble.
Santander's mobile app is awful though. It kind of works but it's a chunky pre-iOS 7 hybrid monstrosity. Web access is pretty smooth however.
Co-op who I was previously are a crap beast on all counts.
You can do that in any country. Austria sucks donkeyballs for staring an actual company however. You need 35.000 in capital and you need to involve a notary. The additional cost for actually getting the company in place is a few thousand euro, you need to listen to the notary read down the contract you made yourself and then you are subject to all sorts of utterly bizarre rules and regulations such as publishing your yearly report in a specific newspaper which charges you an arm and a leg for this privilege.
Can we please fix this?
German administration feels exactly the same. I have heard that situation being called "Prussian administration": slow and cumbersome to operate like a Prussian tank, efficient in its task like a Prussian tank.
BTW, here is a Prussian tank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A7V#/media/File:A7v-wotan-dior...
But the whole point of a company is limited liability, an entity which can own property, sue and be sued, etc. separately from its collection of owners.
Unless you're doing something super simple, you don't want to mess around with a "single proprietorship" or the like.