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Our podcast guest is Roman Huber, who has been the Managing Director of Bayern Kapital since 2006. Bayern Kapital, based in Bavaria, was founded on the initiative of the Bavarian government in 1995. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bavarian LFA Förderbank . As the venture capital organization of the Land of Bavaria, Bayern Kapital provides equity capital financing for the founders of young innovative technology companies in Bavaria.

 

You’ll hear about:

1. How investing in Bavaria is differet from investing in the US
2. The typical types of investments seen in Bavaria and how are deals structured
3. How large the investor community is in Bavaria
4. How most startups fund their early stage companies
5. The process for getting a meeting and pitching to investors
6. How close and supportive of foreign companies the Bavarian community is
7. What a typical seed investment looks like for an early startup and how big the rounds are
8. Opportunities for growth funding and if companies have to look outside of Bavaria to close larger growth rounds
9. The preferred exit strategies for German startups

 

Contact:

Roman Huber

Bayern Kapital

Invest In Bavaria

 

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Joining Globig.co is Jared Johnson, an expert in global mobility from Eide Bailly, a leading accounting and finance firm in the US, to talk about why a company should establish a global mobility program as soon as people start traveling internationally and to mitigate risks even before they assign employees abroad.
Topics include:

• Company Permanent Establishment (PE) Risks
• Immigration Compliance
• Income Tax Compliance
• Payroll Tax Compliance
• Social Security Tax Compliance
• Potential business failure in foreign country due to noncompliance of tax or immigration issues
• Cross boarder employee not having correct skill set or incompatible for assignment

Resources:
EideBailly.com
Globig.co

Globig’s guest speaker is Dominik Grau, the Chief Innovation Officer at Ebner Media Group in Germany. Dominik has expertise is in media (print, digital, video, mobile, events), content marketing, content strategy, corporate development, IT infrastructure and technology management. He is also a highly regarded speaker and you’ll find him at the world's top content marketing, media and publishing conferences.

Globig had the chance to interview renowned trade lawyer Susan Kohn Ross to discuss how the Trump administration views and could impact the hot button issues such as trade agreements, tariffs, visas, taxes and more. Join in for this very insightful podcast to learn more about the likely impact and when it will affect your business.

Resources:
http://tradelawyersblog.com/contributors/susan-kohn-ross/
www.canada-usblog.com

Susan Kohn Ross Bio:
Susan Kohn Ross is a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp where she Chairs the International Trade Practice Group which focuses on Customs, international trade, transportation, FDA, export licensing, corporate compliance/governance and import/export issues, along with anti-corruption and other trade compliance concerns. She is also Chair of MSK’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection Practice Group which assists clients to implement privacy and system preventive policies and procedures, but also provides breach resolution assistance.
She is a co-founder of www.canada-usblog.com; Member, American Association of Exporters and Importers Industry Leadership Council; Past Chair, National Security Committee, American Bar Association, International Law Section; past Chair, District Export Council of Southern California, and 2016-2017 Vice Chair and 2015-2016 Steering Committee Member, National District Export Council.

Jason Fritts, a senior manager specializing in Transfer Pricing at Eide Bailly, one of the top US accounting and finance firms joins Globig to talk about transfer pricing.

Listen to this very helpful podcast to better understand:

-    What is transfer pricing

-    What is the arm’s-length principle and how to make sure you’re compliant with it

-    Why transfer pricing is important

-    The risks of non-compliance

-    How to set up transfer pricing documentation

-    What is expected in different countries

Globig had a chance to catch up with Laura Mancini Chan recently. Since 1997, Laura has worked with firms all around the world in international human resources, relocation services and intercultural training. She has provided training to companies such as American Express, BAT, Cadbury-Schweppes, Celanese, Cummins, Eaton Electrical, JPMorganChase, KPMG, among others.

Laura discusses how culture impacts business and intercultural training can improve leadership skills, improve the ability to communicate with people, increase the awareness of and sensitivity to people from different cultures to avoid common areas of misunderstanding.

Julian Leuthold is Globig's guest, he’s the producer of the GetGlobal Expo in Los Angeles, the premiere international expansion conference for the US. Julian has extensive background in doing business in India, in researching India for companies, and consulting with companies doing business in India.

You’ll learn more about:

1.    What colonialism is

2.    How colonialism impacts culture 

3.    Why is it important to understand the history of each country you go into

4.     How a countries history influence how they now do business today

5.    How being post-colonial impacts business in India and some examples of successes and failures

6.    The most common areas of misunderstanding or incompatibility

7.    The characteristics of a successful negotiation and business relationship

Globig’s guest today is Andrew Oury, a partner at Oury Clark Chartered Accountants and Oury Clark Solicitors, considered leading tax advisory, financial services and law firms in the UK.

This podcast focuses on how to do business in the UK, some important advice on how to get a bank account, making sure you get your visas before setting up a business, culture, why hiring the right local people is key, and so much more good stuff. Listen in now.

Globig talks with Cyber Security expert Adam Anderson, the founder and CEO of Atlas Vault, a company that helps businesses understand who their vendors are and what cyber risk they are allowing into their organization. Adam has written the book ‘Small Business Cyber Security: Your Customers Can Trust You…Right? ‘, and has been consulting for enterprises in cyber risk and security for many years. 

Topics we cover include:

•    Best practices for keeping your company safe for SMBs and larger companies

•    How to identify scams and breaches

•    Employee training

•    Supply chain evaluation

•    Global cyber security requirements

Listen in to the Globig Cyber Security podcast today.

One of the most important and complex issues facing companies expanding globally is around taxation, what creates a tax liability, how to best manage global taxation, and the pitfalls to avoid. Our subject matter expert is Shannon Lemmon, she leads the International Tax Division at Eide Bailly.

Some of the questions discussed include:

•    The 183 days myth vs. reality

•    What business activities can people they do while abroad before triggering tax liability

•    Transfer pricing

•    IC-DISK

•    Expat tax liability vs. company liability