I'm German and had a startup in Germany (standard UG holding + GmbH).
My one advice to anyone thinking of starting a company is: don't do it in Germany. Tax burden, insane bureaucracy and a conservative, tech adverse local market put you at a disadvantage against UK/US peers.
>German founders are incentivized to move abroad before exits
Don't do that. The tax office will treat that as a sale and will tax the current valuation at 20%.
My one advice to anyone thinking of starting a company is: don't do it in Germany. Tax burden, insane bureaucracy and a conservative, tech adverse local market put you at a disadvantage against UK/US peers.
>German founders are incentivized to move abroad before exits
Don't do that. The tax office will treat that as a sale and will tax the current valuation at 20%.