Exactly.
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We certainly didn't skip notifying the police. The whole point of the article is that we did the opposite - gathered enough evidence so that the police could do their job.
The police were never going to do a stake out like we did.
Citizen's arrest is not such a unusual thing to do. We would not have messed with him if he produced a knife.
I note that when I published this article a week or two ago, much of the feedback (mostly from Americans I think) was that they would have skipped the police and just kicked the guy in! I would say we were quite sensible overall.
You can share the results, so if you want an explanation for why any of the algorithms gave a particular matching result, just post the link here and we will take a look and try to explain it.
Also - this is an international site - you should really write in English.
We had some investors refuse to invest in us as a German company because it was just too much hassle, and not worth the cost if they made a relatively small 10k€ investment.
UK Ltd much easier to invest into.
wrt to my "tone" - that is rather a stylistic thing - I am trying to write with a bit of humour - tongue in cheek. I do literally know what a notary is, yet at the same time the notary process is quite alien if you are from the UK (I am aware they exist there too but they are rare).
Indeed the historical reason for some of these things is quite interesting. Someone else shared some detailed article about it with me a while ago.
I would acknowledge that there are "benefits" to this laborious process - such as less shell companies or fraud.
However, I think they would do better by making the business registration process more accessible to outsiders.
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 it as a positive sign for the process that people will literally use another country's registration process because the home one is so bad.
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, the business registration process is a hindrance. They should take a leaf from Estonia's book and simplify the process. Including making it possible to navigate the whole process in English.
Language is the small part of the problem here. Really, it is the process that is bad.
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. Maybe we will do a flip later. Lots of people suggest registering in Estonia as they apparently make it very easy, but I have never actually heard of a venture backed company that did that.
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 should be translated into English if the country wants to attract foreigners to come here and set up companies.
Current status is that people are warned against incorporating here.
We took a 1.2M € investment round. Investors do not want to invest that into anything other than a "proper" Germany company.
The investors can't (or should not) pay any money towards the 25k €. We had 1.2M € go into the bank account, but we have to agree that we are liable for the 12.5k € and pay it in ourselves over time.
What are your thoughts on serverless?
re OSS strategy - it's more users and feedback that I firstly think of. For instance, people keep telling us that there could be a really great use case in crypto compliance/auditing - tracking related wallet addresses etc. We don't really know enough about blockchain to validate that, but I think an OSS community could.