{"id":31305,"date":"2019-07-13T21:04:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T02:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.besabine.com\/how-do-you-start-your-own-business-in-colombia-a-roadmap\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:44:41","slug":"how-do-you-start-your-own-business-in-colombia-a-roadmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besabine.com\/en\/how-do-you-start-your-own-business-in-colombia-a-roadmap\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you start your own business in Colombia? | A roadmap"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can you start your own business in Colombia? My business has been around since 2018<\/strong> and, like many, it was quite a figuring out process. Are you also planning to start a business in Colombia? In this article you will find a complete roadmap, with helpful links and useful tips.<\/strong> Also useful if you are going to work in Colombia for a Colombian company.<\/p>\n

Important!<\/strong><\/span> Starting a business in Colombia is not as easy as it may be in your home country, and there are many forms and situations where things are different. In addition, the tax system is very complicated and I don’t understand half of it myself. So it means you may have to follow different steps than those in this article. The main purpose of the article is to get you started and provide useful tips. <\/p>\n

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Having my own business in Colombia: what do I actually do?<\/h2>\n
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Let me begin by telling you something about what I actually do. In 2017, I made a career switch from scientific researcher at the National Cancer Institute of Colombia to web designer<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Working in Colombia is a lot of fun and educational, but I also regularly went nuts.<\/strong> In addition, I already wanted to be my own boss for a long time. Click here if you want to learn more about why I made my career switch (Dutch).<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

So I started my own business as a web designer and blogger, where I can develop myself and work independently of location. And that includes registration with the Chamber of Commerce, just like in the Netherlands. Although I work with Dutch-speaking clients from the Netherlands, Belgium and anywhere else in the world, my company is 100% based in Colombia.<\/strong> And here I’ll tell you from A to Z how that went.<\/p>\n\n\t\t