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Well, yes – you can't typically open a business in 30 minutes here but the process is not exactly complex either. If you cant' figure out the administrative part of opening a company, maybe you shouldn't. It also keeps baffling me how that is of any significance. Are people afraid that their "paradigm shifting industry disrupting" idea will lose validity over the the next week? If so, maybe the idea was bollocks to begin with?

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The bureaucracy of opening the business is a proxy for the bureaucracy that the business will endure during this lifetime. Admittedly, opening in 30 minutes is the result of politicians gaming the KPI, no one needs to open a company in 30 minutes. But waiting for 7 weeks is also generally understood to be on the other side of the spectrum, and not really reasonable either.

And that the "easy" part (as we know that it could be done as quickly as in 30 minutes) takes forever does not speak well of the UX of managing a business on that country, because e.g. closing a business, which is by nature more complicated, could end up being a hellish ordeal.

That you (and apparently the German bureaucracy) think people who can start a business and people who can tick administrative boxes are the same type of person explains German economic performance in the last 5 years.

It sounds strange but I believe businesses should bill the government for all work at their regular rates. If the assignment requires expertise that needs to be hired those rates should apply. Set some % fee for urgent work.

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