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What? So you should just be allowed to do as you please? Start with an eco-retreat on your winery. Then build out luxury apartments? Then where to go from here? Maybe get rid of the winery for a golf course? Creep your way into a luxury resort?

Where is the line?

> The €25k working capital requirement seems a little prescriptive to me

It also hasn't been raised since 1981 when it was set at 50.000 DM. Which would provide a real trust to customers and suppliers working with a GmbH. This would mean 65.000€ accounting for inflation.

And trust is key in having a smooth running economy.

> OP missed six months of opportunity

OP missed six months of opportunities because he is an idiot, that has been scammed by a tax consultancy that is interested in his money.

He should have setup a UG, start the business and invest into building a GmbH.

You should Google "Place of effective management"

A lot of the entrepreneurs I meet become tax & social insurance fraudsters as soon as I mention this, because they think they can setup a company somewhere but live in Spain, without paying or registering companies here.

> Someone wanted to turn a winery into a eco-tourism boutique hotel with a winery tour and experience.

Because a agricultural business and a hotel business are two different things, and Spain has, rightfully so, their thumb on the spread of tourism, because it affects local communities negatively.

Otherwise investors could just come in, buy a random agriculture business and then turn it into luxury hotels/lodging.

> I’ve been involved with startups and small businesses for more than a decade, and I haven’t still heard of any of them doing things 100% by the book, because it’s just impossible.

Because entrepreneurs are notoriously bad thinking further than their own interests. It always, "just" something they want to do.

Zoning rules and regulations have their purpose. Are some of those in some places idiotic? Yes. Do most of them still have their reason? Also yes.

Otherwise we can stop protesting datacenters and the trump family building a eco-luxury resort in a nature reserve.

Yeah, he has no clue and complains about having no clue.

He wants a company but not put down any assets, but still limited liability, he has to get a UG. But obviously customers don't want to deal with that because there are no assets in case they pay 5.000€ and the company goes belly up.

Customers deal with GmbH, because they know they have at least a little bit of value in assets. So if I buy from you for 5.000€ I know that should be covered by your assets.

The guy is an idiot and has been misconsulted by the law firm and has been pulled over the table by said law firm.

I just did a quick check:

The 25.000€ hasn't been raised since the early 1980s. (50.000 DM back then) So to have the same liability today, you would have to put down 65.000€.

So it has gotten increasingly cheaper to start a GmbH in Germany.

Hahahahha... I was trying to build something like this for a while. Seems like I wasn't the only one with this idea. So happy someone finally did it!

You know who has great information density? Pornhub. If you open Pornhub on a 4K screen, you will absolutely see none of the thumbnails. I think YouTube is overdoing it, but it is really a thing of: people are either using really small screens or 1080p. 4K is still not around much.

This is my general opinion with regards to bureaucracy in Germany. All the data is most likely already there and all the technical challenges have been solved in the meantime. Why do I have to do the runaround from office to office, when they are physically connected by a piece if wire (aka the internet).

There is a reason why we have so much bureaucracy in Germany (1. because we like it) and second because it is supposed to provide trust, trust that every company I deal with is legit, trust that the system knows who is participating. Without trust nobody would make business or business would be very hard, because you would have to price in the risk of not having trust.

Weather is not climate...

I found the netboot docs very hard to understand if you dont have a existing knowledge of PXE.

I think a better way would be to keep the foundation and spin off a company that manufactures all of that. Sell 49% of that company in an IPO and keep the majority stake in the foundation. This way they can raise money for expansion while keeping the mission in line.

This also signals very clear to investors what this enterprise is about.

In Europe and the EU it is thanks to the GDPR. At least if its PII, if you wanna collect weather data, feel free to do so.

Lol. Like you are going to pay 1500$ per month for marginal infrastructure cost? Suburbans are pretty expensive as well as rural communities, I don't need a consultancy to see that.

Look at some of the poorer places in America and you can see what you can get with no property tax or other contributions.

Suburbia is unnecessarily subsidised.