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I did, i can only encourage you to try it. I dropped out of University even because of my self employment. I would never look back and change that. There's not much bureaucracy as a Kleinunternehmer (small business owner), depends on the niche you work in tho but for IT stuff and even importig/exporting electronics i never had big issues.

I am part owner of a US startup now, we have to deal with as much bureaucracy there...The big thing that makes the US different is that it's way easier to get capital, but there are as many weird laws which differ from county to county..