HOW TO START A BUSINESS IN FINLAND ON A BUDGET BY STEVEN JACKSON
HOW STARTING A BUSINESS IN FINLAND CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING? Why I decided to start a business in Finland
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE SUCCESSFUL STARTING A BUSINESS IN FINLAND? It is simply about having the right mindset and the believe that you can be successful
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HOW TO START A BUSINESS IN FINLAND ON A BUDGET STEVEN JACKSON
Life in Finland for a foreigner can be a trail,
In the beginning, many foreigners are happy
but from my experience the light at the end of
with this situation, they have a great lifestyle
the tunnel is starting a business in Finland
even though they have little money. However, overtime
I am not saying that running a business is
many
like
myself
start
to
ask
ourselves:
Finland is easy because it is not. If you have enough language skills in English it is possible
"Is there something more to this life in Finland?"
to build a global business from your home computer. The reality of living here is that the
Maybe,
average salary in Finland in low and taxes are
experience more, travel more and be more.
high, while paradoxically the lifestyle is very good.
I
would
like
more,
earn
more,
HOW STARTING A BUSINESS IN FINLAND AS A FOREIGNER CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING? STEVEN JACKSON Why I decided to start doing business in Finland? To start my story I needed to return to the time I arrived in Helsinki with my wife Anja. We arrived almost penniless, with our daughter under our arms. It was a time when I was passionate about whatever I started. I can remember starting my first real job in Finland as a youth worker. I have to say I did enjoy the experience, but even then I knew
it
was
a
transition
to
something
else,
something better. However,
business
or
a
higher
aspirations
requires more than short term goals of getting a job, but it pays the bills and that is what is important. Since, then I have been a passionate advocate of running a home based business. I begun to understand that it could be the solution to
creating
a
global
business
online
from
anywhere in the world and in my case Finland. More importantly, as a foreigner I understood that, it was not that easy to get business loans. To make it clear, it was possible, but in my mind I had
already
decided
that
I
could
reduce
my
outgoing as much as possible by not running a traditional business. The online model seemed so practical, because it gave me the flexibility to live and work in Finland or not.
WHY I DECIDED TO START DOING BUSINESS IN FINLAND?
COMPARE STARTING A BUSINESS
Now that I have shown you the reality of having
IN FINLAND IN REGARDS TO
a startup business in Finland, let’s compare the
TRADITIONAL AND HOME BASED
traditional
business
to
online
home
based
business model.
MODELS By the way did I mention the hard work???? Even before I go through the list of reasons why running a online business from home is a better
If you live in Finland and can communicate in
choice over a traditional business. Let us look
English or Finnish and are interested in starting
at the failure rates of starting a business.
a business in Finland from the comfort of the
Believe it or not, it is 80 to 90% with most
home -
business owners losing a lot of money and most
will get back to you asap….
Click on the source link below and we
of it not their own. So, before you ever make a decision to become any type of entrepreneur or
Source: How to start a business in Finland on a
business owner, there is a a few things you
budget
should know. Running a business is really hard work It is really hard to be successful in any type of business Most businesses fail within 6 months To own a successful business will take time, money and a lot of work Success is a mindset as well as skill-set that you may not have at the start If you do succeed in your business or even make a profit it will take a few years
Author: Steven Jackson