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Becoming an “entrepreneur” in the Nederlands

Here stats a semi-ironic, pseudo-serious thread narrating my journey in Dutch bureaucracy.

Today’s challenge is coming to Rotterdam’s Kamer van Koophandel (KVK), the Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands, to start a sole-entrepreneur business 😱

As you can see, I am not terrified. It consoles me to know that @barbs was here last week and she survived 😳

To be clear: I STILL AM ANTICAPITALIST but you gotta pay rent somehow.

#KvK #Netherlands #BelinLand #entrepreneurship

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@wmd@chaos.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@tommi @barbs best of luck! And if your home address will the same as your business address, they will want to publish in their public database and maybe sell it. If you don't want this, you can object but they will want a post address they can publish, bit that can be a po box

Tommi 🤯

@tommi@pan.rent replied · 2 weeks ago

@wmd @barbs Hopefully correctly I checked the option to preserve my privacy in the initial submission form… I will point it out to make it clear, adding it to my list of questions now. Thanks! 🌻

Barbara 👽

@barbs@gamedev.lgbt replied · 2 weeks ago

@tommi @wmd yess I checked that box as well though it doesn’t shield the address from public view sadly (I think they’re working on making this easier though as in the age of the internet rn it’s quite vulnerable)