Advice Please on starting a business...
Aug 17th 2007, 1:05 pm
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Advice Please on starting a business...
Hi, I'm new to this site - but a regular on the Oz site! I was wondering how difficult it would be for a foreigner to start a business in Dubai? It would be selling personalised music CDs for children (already huge in the UK), and I'm thinking it could do well in Dubai - both with the big expat population and with the huge number of foreign visitors.
Does anyone have experience of doing anything like that or can put me in the right direction for some good information?
Are there lots of young expat mums and dads in Dubai or is it really a singles culture?
Many thanks....
Does anyone have experience of doing anything like that or can put me in the right direction for some good information?
Are there lots of young expat mums and dads in Dubai or is it really a singles culture?
Many thanks....
Aug 17th 2007, 1:32 pm
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Re: Advice Please on starting a business...
Hi, I'm new to this site - but a regular on the Oz site! I was wondering how difficult it would be for a foreigner to start a business in Dubai? It would be selling personalised music CDs for children (already huge in the UK), and I'm thinking it could do well in Dubai - both with the big expat population and with the huge number of foreign visitors.
Does anyone have experience of doing anything like that or can put me in the right direction for some good information?
Are there lots of young expat mums and dads in Dubai or is it really a singles culture?
Many thanks....
Does anyone have experience of doing anything like that or can put me in the right direction for some good information?
Are there lots of young expat mums and dads in Dubai or is it really a singles culture?
Many thanks....
Not sure if the laws have changed but unless you're in a "free zone" you have to have an emirati as a business partner to sponsor the business.
Aug 17th 2007, 1:37 pm
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Re: Advice Please on starting a business...
yes cham is right and you will need a lot of money! I mean alot! there is alot of red tape here and if you were thinking of opening up a retail outlet expect to pay extortionate rents. I wouldn't dream of trying to start a business up out here, it would drive me mad!!! How about selling your CD's via another retailer? said ELC or something like that.
Aug 17th 2007, 1:55 pm
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Re: Advice Please on starting a business...
yes cham is right and you will need a lot of money! I mean alot! there is alot of red tape here and if you were thinking of opening up a retail outlet expect to pay extortionate rents. I wouldn't dream of trying to start a business up out here, it would drive me mad!!! How about selling your CD's via another retailer? said ELC or something like that.
Aug 17th 2007, 1:57 pm
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Re: Advice Please on starting a business...
yes cham is right and you will need a lot of money! I mean alot! there is alot of red tape here and if you were thinking of opening up a retail outlet expect to pay extortionate rents. I wouldn't dream of trying to start a business up out here, it would drive me mad!!! How about selling your CD's via another retailer? said ELC or something like that.
how about an mp3 service? get them to order all the tracks and you can basically then allow them to download all of them in one zipped file (nothing more annoying than having to download 18 tracks seperately
