How to Found a Company in Germany: 14 "Easy" Steps and Lots of Pain

Re:How to Found a Company in Germany: 14 "Easy" Steps and Lo... by Beijinger on Monday April 08, 2024 @05:10AM (#39967727)

Biggest problem: Germans don't understand digitization.

They often try to recreate the paper process with IT, instead of making a complete new setup.

Example:

Previously, you had to go to the City Hall or whatever in your pace of birth to get a birth certificate.

Now you can email them, pay, and they mail you the certificate via snail mail.

How it should be: Use an online token, log into your account, request a birth certificate and just print it. It should have a URL that can be used to verify that it is valid. This would be faster and the risk of forgery would be much lower. A seal - and Germans love seals, they wank of to seals - can be forged much easier.

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Re:How to Found a Company in Germany: 14 "Easy" Steps and Lo... by tonis2 on Monday April 08, 2024 @07:49AM (#39968738)

Yeah, I worked in a German startup for 2 years, managers were running it like we were manufacutring cars.

Lots of decision's, made no sense in software development.

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Re:How to Found a Company in Germany: 14 "Easy" Steps and Lo... by rs999gti on Monday April 08, 2024 @01:51PM (#39972108)

> Lots of decision's, made no sense in software development.

But we must have process and governance in place. Let us set a meeting to discuss.

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Re:How to Found a Company in Germany: 14 "Easy" Steps and Lo... by bratwurst3000 on Monday April 08, 2024 @03:52PM (#39973084)

Yes those seals rly invite you to misuse them. It’s ridiculous easy to forge them.

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Re:How to Found a Company in Germany: 14 "Easy" Steps and Lo... by Tainnor on Monday April 08, 2024 @06:16PM (#39974310)

> Previously, you had to go to the City Hall or whatever in your pace of birth to get a birth certificate.

> Now you can email them, pay, and they mail you the certificate via snail mail.

> How it should be: Use an online token, log into your account, request a birth certificate and just print it. It should have a URL that can be used to verify that it is valid. This would be faster and the risk of forgery would be much lower. A seal - and Germans love seals, they wank of to seals - can be forged much easier.

That's an unreasonably high (or weird) standard. What country has a process like that? Switzerland certainly doesn't.

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Re:How to Found a Company in Germany: 14 "Easy" Steps and Lo... by Beijinger on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @06:18AM (#39977930)

Luxembourg...

Even Brazil. Things like Background Check works like this. You can create a PDF that can be online validated.

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