Hate this too, but isn't the cost basically a government mandated insurance fee on the correctness/applicability of the contract and saves companies much higher litigation fees common in US? It's not really for the notary's time or reading, I think a lot of what they receive here
Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a 90-page investment contract read to him (mandatory under German
Curious how well this works. So far only tried charging a really low fee like €5, which already improves RSVP accuracy a huge amount over entirely free events, making it higher and simply returning the money when they show up, may work even better. Only caveat: with both
$5300 in $100s please. That's what we said at the bank this morning.
See, whenever you have a free IRL event, you tend to get a lot of no-shows. Plenty of people sign up and RSVP, but ultimately far fewer show up.
This isn't a big deal if you have unlimited space and anyone can
Stop de Kindermoord: "Was jedoch nicht abgenommen hat, ist die Zahl der Unfälle, in die Kinder bis 14 Jahre als aktive Verkehrsteilnehmer involviert sind. 864 registrierte die Polizei im vergangenen Jahr. 663 Kinder wurden dabei verletzt; 106 davon schwer, eins tödlich. Die
