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Alistar has his business registered in Estonia, and shares his recommendations on why Estonia is good solution for individuals making their first entrepreneurial steps.
European Diplomats is a young, fast-paced digital government affairs agency, with ambition to innovate the government affairs sector.
Alistair is an ex diplomat who worked with governments and ambassadors. He wanted to bring together governments and business to work and do projects together, and this is how the company idea was created.
He is British with a German passport, living in Tallinn. He explored the options of opening the company in both UK and Germany, but due to paper-based business society and bureaucracy that kills every start-up his only remaining option for a small company was Estonia; especially with digitalization and due to fact that everything is in English.
he started the company during the Covid in 2021, and there were no big challenges for that.
The Future of Education Consortium created in 2023.
Developed 4 case studies
Organising events on relevant and up-to date topics
“European Diplomats brings together people from all over the world who are in government, private sector, or academia, to work on the development of the education sector .”
Company implements projects all over the world with governments. They run a future of education consortium and cooperate with private companies from the UK and UAE, Ministries from Malta, Estonia, and Germany, and also universities from Finland.
LESSONS FOR PatENT
When it comes to setting up a company in Estonia, it is really easy to just do it. You don’t need years of preparation or saving money, just have a strong motivation.
All aspects of the business can be done online and in English.
PatENT Project
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