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How a Startup Can Avoid Death by Regulation
3 books about lobbying for startups and NGOs
Sometimes it is surprising that we live in a world with artificial intelligence everywhere, quantum computing, vertical take-off cars, and still some aspects of our lives are based on some inefficient mechanism like filing multiple times reports for medical purposes, or that a series or tormented documents have to be presented to start a specific business. Especially when those paths often differ from country to country to a considerable extent. I would recommend you 3 books on the topic instead of reviewing them. I wrote this article so you can follow more the story, and then delve more with them as I cite them.
In theory, regulatory systems exist because a government or an institution introduced a mechanism to protect citizens at some point. However, sometimes those mechanisms appear as the results of specific groups of interest that are lobbying to some degree with institutions and they are more mere bureaucracy than citizen security. In some cases, those lobbying reaches detrimental levels. Elmira Bayrasli in “From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places” reported some cases of startups in Russia that were experiencing several serious issues as they were disrupting some status quo related to some institutions. Indeed, lobbying is the process by which companies…
