As you might expect, I enjoy cowboy movies. The open range, theplains, the cattle drives, the cowboys, and the saloons … and, ofcourse, the gold!
So I was sitting watching The Magnificent Seven. It is a classic film butnot many know it is based on a Japanese film: The Seven Samurai.
So here are my magnificent seven Mount Bonnell Advisors thoughts on Austin:
Mount Bonnell Advisors was born there.
Mount Bonnell Advisors has offices there.
Mount Bonnell CEO, Sebastian Sauerborn has lived there.
Mount Bonnell Advisors have many business connections there.
Mount Bonnell Advisors have appeared on local media there.
Mount Bonnell Advisors have eaten in some the best restaurants there.
Mount Bonnell Advisors all agree on their favorite city:
AUSTIN, TX.
You either love somewhere, or you don’t – right?
Well, I love Texas, and more particularly I love Austin.
Texas is not a place: it’s a state of mind. And it sure helps my state ofmind. Something to do with the sheer size of the state: it’s big, a bigcountry, but it has an intimacy that is hard to take until you’ve livedand worked there.
Texas is also an attitude. It is a place that historically has had manyflags flying over it. Maybe that’s why Texans are hard to governthough. They are who they are and they expect governments – atstate and federal level – to stay out of the way. Whether its low taxesor a “just do it” business atmosphere, Texans like to “do” more than“talk”, to live according to their own rules rather than to be regulatedby someone else’s.
Each city in Texas is different. Austin, for my money at least, is themost unique city in the whole state. A liberal college town in thismost conservative of states; a democratic voting city in dire hardRepublican territory; they tell me it is the blueberry in the tomatosoup. Still, to a foreigner, it feels like Texas, just another sort of Texas.It’s still about freedom, enterprise, and industry. They may not beherding cattle in Austin but they are just as busy there, albeit withcomputers and tech and any other facet of modernentrepreneurialism. They work hard there just like everyone elsearound here. They play hard too in Austin. Just take a look at South-by-South West. It is all about work but it’s also about having a partywhile doing so.
When coming to do business in the United States it is worth keepingthis in mind, and that goes no matter where you decide to set up yourUS operation. Remember your move is not just about business; it’salso about life, and you need to get both sides of that equation right – right?
That’s why Mt. Bonnell Advisors recommends Austin, Texas as ourUS gateway city. As a city it has a good vibe, one Europeans getstraightway. But it is also an American city, and one that is open forbusiness and it seems the more international the better. Itunderstands and welcomes the innovation and the investment thatcomes with that business. So the city is really open for business, thereto welcome you into its community of entrepreneurs.
Take a listen to the Mt. Bonnell Media podcast series: Move YourBusiness to the United States. You’ll hear real Texans talking aboutbusiness and life in the Lone Star State. That’s precisely why wemade the series. It was as if we could show you around ourselves.Take you to meet some people who would help you in all sorts ofways to get started doing business and living in Texas.
The series has proved popular all over the world. There are businesspeople listening to it across the Middle East and South Eat Asia. (Itwas number one on Apple charts all over the place.) These listenersare entrepreneurs who have already started dreaming of thatAmerican Dream, the one that we keep going on about here at Mt.Bonnell Advisors. Like us, they too want to be part of that dream. And
we want to help them achieve that too, just as we have also done formany European entrepreneurs.
You see entrepreneurs have many things in common whether theyare in Austin, Austria or Australia. They find who they are throughthe business idea they have ‘given birth to’ and have helped grow to‘adulthood’. Now, they want to take that idea to a new continent andsee how it performs there. And all they want, more often than not, isthe chance to compete – and America offers that for sure.
Just as with the Hollywood film The Magnificent Seven it was an Asianidea that made an American product such a success. So now, via theinspiration of Move Your Business to the United States, we hope toinspire many Asian entrepreneurs to try their luck in America todaywith the help of another Magnificent Seven, namely, the good folks atMt. Bonnell Advisors.
