{"id":1453,"date":"2013-06-25T08:37:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T06:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2014-03-25T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T09:34:40","slug":"many-foreigners-are-confident-enough-to-attempt-a-business-start-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/many-foreigners-are-confident-enough-to-attempt-a-business-start-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Many foreigners are confident enough to attempt a business start in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In Switzerland, many foreigners have taken on self-employment by starting their own business. The migrants of the first and second generation account for a considerable amount of new business starts.<!--more--><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11640\" title=\"foreigners\" alt=\"Unterschrift\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.startups.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Namensrecht-Standesamt2.jpg?resize=650%2C356\" width=\"650\" height=\"356\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many foreigners start businesses in Switzerland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has become markedly more common for foreigners to start a company in Switzerland. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2012 confirmed this fact in with its findings. First generation migrants showed a foundation rate of 9.1%, which is significantly above the 5% among Swiss. Also the second generation migrants show such a higher propensity with a respectable 8%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Little fear of failure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fear of failing in a business venture has drastically gone down in the past few years. In 2012, the fear of failure fell to a level that was comparable to that of the United States of America. With this, Switzerland and the United States have taken top positions in the global rankings.<br \/>\nAlso women are more frequently starting businesses. \u00a0No open market and innovation based economy in the world has better ratios between male and female entrepreneurs.<br \/>\nWhen it comes to age, the following findings were significant: in the afge group 18-24, the propensity for entrepreneurship is the lowest, while it wa the highest in the age group 35-44.<br \/>\nTo read the study in its entirety, please click the following\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heg-fr.ch\/files\/heg-fr\/jobs\/130521_GEM.pdf\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Switzerland, many foreigners have taken on self-employment by starting their own business. The migrants of the first and second generation account for a considerable amount of new business starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[272,18],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":3135,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54Pb1-nr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}