Reading for the entrepreneur
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Researching the competition / the partners
- Finnish Business ID search ( search by freetext, by Businesss ID ( y-tunnus, y-luku ) and by w:Types of business entity ( yritysmuoto )
- Virre.prh.fi company statement search engine and web-shoppe prices vary from 0,68€ to around 6€ per document. Payment in web-shoppe with Finnish web-bank usercodes.
- w:List of company registers may help in researching foreign based businesses.
Resources for starting a business
- Board of Patents and Registration offers advisory lawyers with non-disclosure promise free-of-charge to help inventors and innovators succeed in Finland. At the PRH premises all documents that cost in Virre are available for viewing free-of-charge but copies and print-outs are exuberantly priced at 1€ / page.
Going international ?
TMView allows one to quickly research trademarks europe-wide free-of-charge. Contains almost 7,000,000 trademark registrations.