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Spain's expat tax regime gets pitched as a hiring perk for anyone moving here. It is a narrow senior-band instrument, and below a certain salary it costs money.
Spain built a route for high-earning remote workers to live here. Three years of permits show where they went, and it was not evenly across the country.
Early-stage valuations just hit record highs, which reads as good news for founders. The last time this happened, the bill arrived about two years later.
The islands are better at starting companies than keeping them. The leak happens at one specific moment, and it is the moment local capital could fix.
Most startups do not return capital. That is the base rate, not the tail risk, and almost nobody, founder or investor, is prepared for what failing looks like.
On Mallorca, wealth means property. It is a reasonable instinct with one blind spot, and the fix is not to sell the house but to stop stopping there.
In Spain, a qualifying angel investment can return half its value through a tax deduction, up to 50,000 euros a year. The case for backing local startups.
How Max Ventures' data-driven system is picking Europe's next generation of breakout startups and winning.
Most investment theses live in an investor's head, which means they cannot scale, cannot transfer, and cannot be acted on systematically. Here is how the shift to explicit, data-driven theses is changing both sides of the early-stage funding table.