Setting up a business without a company

Last week we held an event with Aalto’s freshmen at Design Factory which ended up gathering roughly 20 new students. We used the situation to gather information about what are the difficulties in establishing your own business for a student. The results didn’t surprise us as main concerns were finding a team, getting funding etc. These are the issue we are changing with Aaltoes.

One major problem which new students felt important was the amount bureaucracy and legal questions related to setting up your own company. It’s understandable if you haven’t done it before and sometimes it might feel overkill to to set up a legal entity if you’re doing only small consultation tasks on the side of your studies. Luckily there are solutions for this and today we spotted one from Twitter (thanks @hannamanna for the tip!).

Eezy.fi is a new company which enables you to work for yourself without setting up a company. The service will take care of billing your customer and paying taxes and other fees. You’ll be “employed” by Eezy and get salary once the customer pays the company for your services. The service will take 12% fee from their services. Sounds pretty good for a student with random consultation doesn’t it?. Unfortunately we don’t have first hand experience of the company and it operates only in Finnish at the moment. Also if you’re launching a startup company there’s no reason to use this kind of a company as a middleman and setting up even a small company is always good for practice.