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by ignasl 3305 days ago
Probably Berlin. Vilnius or Tallinn could be interesting choices because of friendly business climate, lower taxes, competent and cheap talent, not far away, good tech culture and basically 0% chance that someone would try to outlaw your business (Germany probably has a bit higher chance but I guess it's also not that high). I think US do have some restrictions about exporting encryption to some (all?) foreign countries so you better look closer into that before making a decision. P.S. Stockholm also could be a good place. It's just quite expensive.
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Vilnius and Tallinn are definitely highly tempting, just from the simplicity of getting set up over there from a business registration standpoint (at least in Tallinn, not quite so sure about Vilnius). There are a few concerns about Russia's attitude to the Baltics, though - probably overblown in the press over here, but we'd need to research.

Berlin - yes, definitely a tempting option.

Very overblown. Almost histerical paranoia. Even people in Vilnius are not so afraid of Russia as people here in the UK.
There are indeed some restrictions, but nothing like in the 90's. For the most part, as long as you're not exporting to designated "rogue" states, it's just a matter of some licenses and occasional reviews, though IANAL.