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> It takes 8 weeks from start to finish to be able to get paid for your first sale as a German company.

You can bill as soon as you started the process afaik

You can bill, but the company owners are completely liable until the process is completed. Then the liability goes over to the company. Quite the risk if you ask me.

Not fucking-up in the first 8 weeks does not seem too difficult to achieve

It’s not difficult to achieve to setup a company within 15 minutes too but here we are.

If you're starting a business from scratch, that's 50% of what you do, and it lasts longer than 8 weeks.

As soon as you talk to a notary to prove that you're really opening a company you can get the provisional business license, or whatever they call it, to open a bank account. After you open that bank account you need to talk to the notary again to start registering the real company. Then you need to transfer the bank account from the place holder company to the real company.

I may be misremembering the exact steps because I tried drilling all those memories out of my head as soon as I left Germany.

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