{"id":169,"date":"2023-06-09T05:02:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T05:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2023-06-09T05:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T05:02:21","slug":"are-you-thinking-of-starting-a-business-in-another-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/2023\/06\/09\/are-you-thinking-of-starting-a-business-in-another-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you thinking of starting a business in another country?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\"><strong>Starting a Foreign Business Series \u2013 Part 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello fellow entrepreneurs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After taking some much needed holidays, this week I\u2019ll be starting a new series to share some of my experiences as a Canadian running a business in Europe. I\u2019ll have some interesting stories to share that you might find useful. Even if you have no plans to start a business in another country, you might at the very least find some of my experiences highly amusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of years ago I was working with a business partner to bring a new technology to market, and having a heck of a time making progress. In 2016 we had the opportunity to partner with a university in Europe that had been working on a product that would benefit from the technology I designed. After agreeing to work together, I volunteered to move there, along with my family, to get the business off the ground. This was a huge leap of faith, and a very large project to undertake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was highly optimistic, but had NO idea of the challenges (and the shockingly amusing events) that lay ahead. Over the next few weeks I will break down some of the highs and lows of starting a business in another country, based on my own experiences. Some of the topics I\u2019ll cover are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Moving your household to another country.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visa &amp; immigration issues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finding professional services.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finding office or manufacturing space.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hiring staff.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Preventing staff from quitting due to coffee concerns.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Office supply issues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mobster concerns. Sopranos anybody?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Safety inspectors. Oh my.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Productivity concerns.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cProfessional\u201d equipment \u201crequirements\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cultural concerns.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Etc&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hold onto your hats, this will be an interesting ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please don\u2019t forget to visit my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/\">website<\/a> and subscribe to get my weekly blog in your inbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until next time,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ernst Bergen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B.Sc. Mech. Eng.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/\">www.bergendynamics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting a Foreign Business Series \u2013 Part 1 Hello fellow entrepreneurs! After taking some much needed holidays, this week I\u2019ll be starting a new series to share some of my experiences as a Canadian running a business in Europe. I\u2019ll have some interesting stories to share that you might find useful. Even if you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/business_person_in_foreign_country.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergendynamics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}