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Opening a company is harder than making sales

Portugal

Tried to go to a local office to open a new company, but the people in charge were out.
The same was true for all other available offices within a 30 km radius.
Tried calling a few offices whose public phone numbers are not working.
When I finally found an office with someone available, they forced me to schedule an hour 1 week later (they were not busy).
All of this was because I tried to open online first, but nothing was working or seamless. Yikes :-)

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  • Purple Pickletop

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    May 2

    I heard the empresas 2.0 platform is good for opening a business. But unfortunately as a foreign resident (other EU country) I need to go in person because the website crashes and is unable to retrieve data for non-Portuguese residents. The companybrwgaitry office has 8 slots per day if younwant to open a conpany. 8 per day. And noy need to go queue an hour before the place opens to get one of the 8 tockets. Really a bureaucratic embarassment

  • Salmon Jaguar

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    May 27, 2025

    This is what Rauva is trying to solve, the bureaucratic pain of opening and running a company in portugal