Entrepreneurship

To all my readers not fluent in German: this is one of very few German posts dedicated to topics mostly relevant to Germany. Immer wieder erhalte ich Anfragen zu verschiedenen Aspekten der Unternehmensgründung. Da gerade zum Thema Unternehmensgründung nur wenige fundierte Informationen aus erster Hand zu bekommen sind, teile ich meine Erfahrungen gerne mit. Diesmal geht es um die Wahl der richtigen Unternehmensform, den Gründungsablauf einer GmbH und wie Software am besten verkauft wird. Frühere Artikel zum Thema finden sich hier.

Which values do I build my newly founded company on? There are many things I value highly - fairness, professionalism, quality, innovation, honesty - but one thing stands out: sharing. The IT community as I have come to know it is centered around the wish to help others by sharing information and software. I want to live with and support this community, and I will do that by sharing myself, both information and software. I have blogged, spoken, tweeted and developed free tools in the past, and I will continue to do so. I will even share what little knowledge I have of funding and running a software and consulting company, and I am going to start doing that right here.

After many years of employment I felt the need to reduce the number of people who can order me around. I managed to get it down to two: my wife and my daughter.