Andy Jones
Today we meet with London legend, Andy Jones, who after 14 years of living in Austin, Texas, has become a bit of a legend over there too.
Another English entrepreneur who’s living and thriving in Austin, he is involved in business development with COO travel, and helps businesses save travel costs across the world.
Not only is he well connected but he’s also keen to connect you to the Austin networks that you need to succeed.
Unfiltered and not holding back, he shares with us how he ended up in Texas, what made him fall in love with the city, and what it’s like being an entrepreneur there. He also shares some of the problems that can come up when making the move across to America, and how to avoid them.
“If you’ve got an idea, go for it.”
Time Stamps:
1:55 - How Andy ended up staying in America for over 14 years.
3:50 - Why Andy chose Austin and what made him fall in love with it.
7:36 - How long it took for Austin to start to really feel like home for Andy.
10:58 - The effects of marrying a Texan and how there are always options.
12:50 - How Andy moved from being a salesperson to an entrepreneur.
18:52 - The effects of having a European accent and how it helps in social interactions.
21:15 - Notes of caution to consider before making the move to America.
25:01 - How the schools can change from area to area and the importance of looking at the local schools before moving.
26:45 - The housing situation in Austin, Texas.
32:31 - How to contact Andy and how he and Capital Factory can help you.
Resources:
Connect with Kevin Turley: Website
Connect with Sebastian Sauerborn: LinkedIn
Connect with Andy Jones: By Email
Episode Transcript
Episode 10: Andy Jones
Ali Syed: Yes so, you know, it’s Texas, right, so Texas as, I don’t know if I mentioned just yet, but we are the tenth largest economy in the world-I consider Austin as this garden of entrepreneurs, and the reason that you have a garden, is because you have cultivators that give, give, give, and want to give back through these coffee meetings and knowledge sharing.
You’re listening to Move Your Business to the United States with me, your host, Kevin Turley.
Kevin: Sebastian and I are sitting, looking out on an Austin skyline, at the top of what’s known as the Capital Factory, and we have a very special guest here today, on the podcast, a London legend, and fast becoming an Austin legend in the process, Mr. Andy Jones.
Andy: Good morning guys, thanks for having me.
Kevin: Believe it or not, we have found another English entrepreneur living and thriving in Austin, Texas. Andy Jones is involved in business development for ship travel, helping businesses save on travel costs throughout the world. So, you’ve just arrived in Texas, and you are going to need a friendly face and familiar accent, enter Andy Jones. Not only is he well connected, but Andy is keen to connect you to the Austin networks you need to succeed.
Kevin: Andy, this show is all about moving European entrepreneurs to the United States for people that want to move their businesses, want to set up a new life in the United States. This is something you’ve done, you’ve been here, how many years?
Andy: Fifteen, just over fifteen years now, I moved here in December 2003.
Kevin: And you’ve been in Austin the whole time?
Andy: The whole time.
Kevin: Which is a great vindication of all we know and we see about Austin, being a great place to live and do business.
Andy: Yes, most definitely, and it was a, I’m not going to say by accident, but it was a choice, well, it was an opportunity I took advantage of. I mean, back in 2003, I was- had been based over in Northern Italy, in the world of sport, tourism and entertainment, and having a fantastic time, the perfect job in my book for my mid-twenties to early thirties, fantastic.
However, I was coming to a little bit of a crossroads, in a life of, “can I do this for the rest of my life, having fun and everything that was going with this, sort of fun party lifestyle in a way. Or do I need to have a look at something else”, and I grew up with my grandfather who had connections after World War II and the air force, being very friendly with the American pilots, post war coming over, he and my grandmother, all the time, I went to the US growing up with a grandfather saying, you know, “you need to go to America, go to America, at some point, it’s a great- it’s you”.
And, you know, had never made, you know, being over on a quick trip, but have never made the actual jump. So, at that sort of life- you know, thinking about what I’m going to be doing or what’s the next step, it was, “let’s take a sabbatical, let’s have six months, go over, jump in feet first and see what’s really on offer there”. Having been in Northern Italy for the best part of ten years, you realize it, the best place to get a true guide on the place is actually submerge yourself in that, don’t go-
Sebastian: That sounds really good, Andy, and how and why particularly did you end up in Austin of all places? Because, I mean, nowadays, and our listeners will know that, I mean, Austin is known as a tech hub, you know, big festivals, big music festivals, but back then, it was a little, sort of, I mean, I don’t want to say a cow town, but pretty much it was, right, so, why did you end up here?
Andy: Yeah, great question, so, back in college days, my best friend I grew up with, he ended up getting a year scholarship to Texas A&M so not UT here in Austin, Texas A&M, you know, hour and a half, north east of here, where he met his wife, so, I ended up for a period, you know, half a dozen times, ten years of, I knew then her, her friends would come over to Europe, so I was building up a number of Austin contacts.
When I decided to take six months, it was a sabbatical, it was really that idea, let’s have a road trip, let’s look around, check the place out, look at everything. I could’ve easier just gone to New York, LA, been there before, perhaps an easy option and perhaps we would discuss later, perhaps I think, the thing that most companies think they should do which I think is, from my experience wrong thing to do. I looked at basically in the map, pre-work you know, pre-work that you have nowadays, Austin in slap bang in the middle, why not stay there, easy to get to everywhere, and there were enough sofas to crush on. [smiling] You know, the classic, so back to couple of base, came to Austin within two weeks I’ve fallen in love with the place, I mean, the people, the culture, yes, it was nothing compared to what is like now but within two weeks I’ve been offered a job, funny enough for one of the local TV stations, to do, a little bit of, you know, an Andy in Austin sort of thing, never came, unfortunately, through, but I’ve been, you know, offered. And I was, wow, okay. Here we go.
With that I was able to get a visa, which I didn’t have before, you know because of, you know, particularly, back in the day, never happen, but I was told, “yeah, they can get you one international reporter visa”, being European. But you know, didn’t actually need that, went the proper channels after that, but yeah got to Austin, that was it. And very quickly I got asked by locals I’ve met, just it was starting to become this organic tech hub. You know, technology companies were springing up and all of a sudden I was asked by these people, they had great ideas they were building up these services, more services back in the day, and they wanted somebody to be able to sell it. And they said, hey, why don’t we stick in the English guy out there to sell it, if, you know, perfect, no problem, I never minded talking, so, that was my- suddenly I landed on my feet. So that was Austin [smiling]
Kevin: So in some way, Andy, I mean some way you encapsulate the- the kind of American dream for so many emigrants to the United States, you know, that you came here on a kind of, a fact finding mission, and suddenly the doors were opening and avenues and horizons that perhaps in Europe will take a lot of hard work to get to. And suddenly you find that.
Was there a moment though where you started to feel that you, that you had to make a decision about staying in Austin, you know what I mean, cause like, coming over, you were describing a lifestyle in Italy, it was fun, you were young at the time, but a lot of people, when they are emigrating to another country, there comes a point when it’s kind of “make it or break it” you’re either to burn your bridges and you really kind of try to make a goal of it. Do you remember this sort of a time scale of the moment when you decided in your mind, “No, Austin is for me, this is home now” -?
Andy: Yes, that’s actually a great question, you know, very important issue that a lot of people have. I would say six months, I mean, in a funny way I’ve put it a bit like in the old dating game. You know, you have that typical honeymoon period, you know, you get to- you meet a person, you have those great two weeks of kind of, like, wow, this is amazing, thing that you still go through the honeymoon period where you know all of a sudden the next few months, you know, perhaps six months is like, amazing again, you know, but then all of a sudden all the woos will all come out after, you know, around those six months period.
I think that was the time when I gotten into Austin and seen the city and perhaps as well the American culture, where, the thing that really struck me was, especially when you’re coming and you’re looking to make a new start, America at the time, again, this is fifteen years ago, not that its changed, was, if you got an idea, it was “go for it” and you got help doing it. I was still feeling in Europe, there was a, “yeah that’s a good idea, but yeah, we’ll wait, we’ll wait and see if-“ you know, here it was more of the gun hoe, you know, let’s give it a go.
And you know, again, that city, like Austin, you saw this sort of bubbling away the technology just became, “okay, we’re going to give this a go now”. It’s like, because otherwise it was, you know, I had the safety net of work, just go back to London. There is no safer place [smiling] no safer place knowing and coming from there.
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Kevin: We’ve talked to a number of people when we got to the United States and the great adventure of moving to the United States is part of the attraction, and you know the song, “if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.”, it’s that part of that challenge, especially for entrepreneurs like yourself, but what we also found was that the option of returning home with your tail between your legs was an incentive to push harder when you’re out here, was that your kind of experience?
Andy: Yeah, definitely, definitely, because you very soon you become a- I ended up with a lot of friends, coming over once you force out by west, there comes a moment, where, especially in the music world, where a lot of my friends were in the music world at the time. So, they would come here loving the place, so it was, so each year it was always good that they were planning things already through me, before actually sort of coming out here, not just a program what they’re doing, you know, different events, you need to put sort of VIP, party, whatever. So, yes, it was a “I can’t fail, I don’t want to fail here”.
The other thing which became sort of, quite important was- I got married to a Texan, so, by that, as we moved forward through that, I’m now married, and then you are in a situation, “okay, well, my, we’re looking to set up a family here”, and as much as, you know, that was one, I did also, I think, because things were going in the right way. And I was enjoying it, the work was good et cetera. I’ve lived with the thought of how easy because of the ease between the two places and you know, UK and the US is, I looked at it and I’ve been, well I can always do, six months here, six months back home. Or, ten months here two months back home, vice versa, I don’t- I didn’t see a fail. I saw you might just have to adapt, as the only difficulty. So, yeah, it wasn’t for me it wasn’t eggs only in one basket, it was, you know, I still had options around, and that’s sources of income.
Sebastian: Tell us something about your entrepreneurial journey and you said when you came here initially you became a salesman, how did that then developed into becoming an entrepreneur?
Andy: Yeah, well, it was interesting, you know, it’s- so when I got here, really it was the start of- in my sort of thinking, the Wild Wild West of, you know, Social Media. Facebook, just started to, you know, it was really in his very early days, run in the Ivy league schools, it wasn’t to the likes that I’ve seen [smiling] it was sort of like the next step. However the initial guys I worked with were both Yale grads so I’ve been there and their idea was, “hey we will create the Facebook for high schools”.
It was really the Wild Wild West and as I was sitting down trying getting to work, the only products were, you know, it wasn’t so much getting an angel in there, it was very boot strapped. It was ‘get something out there, get people buy into it’, because that thought of, it’s the next thing, it’s the next thing, there was just, you know, massive thing there. So I was involved in that startup, I was there for a year, I was there for the best part of six years. And we went from all steps with that, and we- it grew, went to multiple different directions, the company grows well, then all of a sudden the plateau became back down again, where you’re able to really sort of call a few departments you didn’t need, but it was still struggling with this identification, where do you actually go for.
And I ended up going to support on the social side, the social media side, the nonprofit world, so great communities around, there are sort of supporting advocates, helping with fundraising efforts. I started to, you know, that was- I started to see, okay that’s me needing to transition out. So just that I was thinking that, I had a nice little exit, I did an exit, so perfect, game won. And then, teamed up with another contact of mine through, for that company we started something else I came on to help him, but I was in pulled into all sorts of other little, you know, say startups using other skills in my mutual round events et cetera.
And one of the other companies we started up is one of them still very much involved in was a company called Marvelous, which, really was, you know, a good friend of mine in town, another English girl, funny enough, and sort of the flagship of this little company is sort of, the Marvelous Vintage Tea Party, which was, you know, putting on this sort of nothing to do with the tech world, but just as looking at this love the Americans have of English and the culture and the history et cetera. And the amount of- they’ve always been asking me where I come from and you start saying London and then it’s all went all over the Moon, but her idea, just putting these bespoke, tailored, whatever theme they want around, tea party, and it was suddenly capturing a lot of these people that you’re actually working with this entrepreneurial world but then their wives wanted to have lunches or teas, but then you know, into the bachelorette or hen weekends, et cetera.
But that’s sort of grown into organically through to now that sort of business, you know, we founded a lot of, you know, weddings, for a number of sort of pop stars, getting to Vegas. There’s all sorts of things that were happening on that love for the British, you know-
Kevin: I think that is a brilliant example of- I must say Andy, of using your difference as an immigrant to a country and selling that, whole sale to Americans who are obviously very interested in it. We didn’t say, Sebastian is a wonderful example of entrepreneurialism using what tools are at your disposal?
Sebastian: Absolutely, yeah, and I think there is an advantage in the United States, coming from Europe, because I think my experiences here being German, people in a way take you sort of seriously, they think you’re trustworthy, in a way, maybe even a little bit more intelligent.
Andy: Yes, I’ve had that, yeah.
Sebastian: So I think there is a great benefit here to use one’s own difference in setting up a business especially, I mean, sometimes, people say it’s difficult when you are a foreigner, I never found it difficult, I find always a benefit, I mean at the minimum people are interested in talking to you, and often something wonderful could develop out of it.
Andy: I totally agree, I mean, I’ve had that as well when people just back to the point at the start of, when they asked me to be the salesman, to stand up and sell it, was that people trust the European accent, and think you’re more intelligent it comes in a- I was “really?”, [smiling] and “why not”, and it works, and yes, I think that’s something I look forward to, you know, I think as well it’s something I looked at you, use your strengths, I mean there’s always a saying just surround yourself by people , excuse me, surround yourself with people who are more intelligent, who are better than you, but you’ve still got to have something that you rely on as your strength. And yeah, I’ve always thought that being quintessentially English, like, use that sort of whole, you know the history of Great Britain, use it. You know, to your advantage, and it’s definitely working.
Sebastian: And I mean this is something very common in America, I think in all aspects of life, and you were talking about dating before, I mean even the dating scene, you know, when you have a foreign accent here, at least European accent, you know, I mean gets you a lot of positive attention, you know. As seen as something in the States, I think, being from Europe is something very positive, you know, and people that are keen to engage with you.
Andy: I’ve said that before, it’s funny you’ve said that, when I first got here, you know, here my dear who- [smiling] when I first got here, and I say this to people that arrive here now, if you have an accent, and you use it sensibly, don’t be, you know, a dick about it, use it sensibly, you get three chances versus one that you used to back home, you know, wherever you are socially, whichever your comfort zone is to meet people, if you say something in an accent, you are always going to have someone reply to you.
You know, I think you know, in your home country, it’s easier to have saying no, thank you, bye, but whereas normally, that applies to Americans, oh where are you from, second attempted, oh really, what are you over here, or something else, then it might not work, it’s not every time, of course, but you do, this is the charm of an accent, you know, for sure.
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Kevin: A lot of people listening to this, will be in the process of either deciding to move their business to the United States or deciding to move their families to the United States. Will I wishing to dampen their enthusiasm, what sort of notes of caution would you give, I mean, what are the things that, I mean, there are obviously advantages, you and Sebastian, have both lived and worked in the United States, you know that, but what are the things that are possibly different in the business environment in the United States, that Europeans are going to have to grapple with that in a way that wouldn’t have at home, or just even the way that people live here. I mean, I’ve been on the I-35 a lot, I mean the whole car culture here is so different from cities in Europe. What advice, what note of caution, not to dampen their enthusiasm but just to say “you need to be aware of this”, would you advise European entrepreneurs?
Andy: Definitely, yes, it’s a couple of perhaps, that was negative sides first, you know I would love to go into the positives obviously. So the negatives sides, I’d say simple things, I see them now as simple, really have a thing around understanding, things like how the health system works here. One of the things in Texas is, as a state as a couple of others, that you, once come here, you need to have health insurance. It’s not, you haven’t got the national health system, or anything, often that can come with a job, however, if you’re coming over as an entrepreneur, or it’s your company, you don’t have it, you’ve got to get it yourself.
It is very, very expensive, there are ways, you know, programs to help, there’s a very good website just for client health, actually it’s a startup here from Capital Factory but why I make it easy to find a package that suits you. But the reason why I say this, is, you know, you need it, because if you end up needing any medical care, literally it can cost you your house, if it’s serious enough, obviously touch wood, you know, nothing happens like that, but just simple things, even with health insurance, going to a doctor, you don’t have a Co Pi which is like insurance deductible, so you might questioning then, see a doctor, 50 dollars even an insurance is covering, then you’ve got to pay for that medication.
It’s an expense that I think could catch a lot of people off guard, especially if one is moving out with a family. Because you’re not just getting a- just if you’re covered, but you have to get for your wife and your children, or your husband, who, you know, they have to get insurance as well. That’s a big one. The other thing I just feel is, just, the American culture is, slightly differently, and I think that it’s not just the Americans, I think it’s going to anywhere, if I was going to Germany or et cetera, as well, really tight time to look how, remember you are a guest, even though it can become your home, and the funny thing is that, you can come to America, they speak the same language, you all grew up, now my age will give away, you know the A team and the Dukes of Hazzard, [smiling] your know, you all understand things like, great Daisy June, however, it is nice to understand, that, how do you say please, thank you, what are the ways of culture, I mean, here as well it’s a- it is a very religious part of the US, you know the Southern Bible Belt and you know you see activities on Sunday mornings, police actually guiding people.
You don’t see this at home, you’ve got to remember you got to respect these different ways things are done. And I think that’s one of the most important, because if you do that, you reap the rewards. You know, it’s my thing, so just be wary of those subtle things and of course I would say, it’s a family person you know I have three boys here, look at the schools, the schools are different, you know, not drastically but just make sure it’s important if you are moving over is, one, you do the research because of, what’s schools would you, depending on where you’ve been lived, what school area does that come in.
Kevin: And just on that, Andy, I mean, a bit like in the UK, a wide variation, in terms of school provision, depending on where you are living, is that a -?
Andy: Definitely, and again it’s also comes into it, I mean one of the things that comes obviously, I mean, we do see it everywhere, in Austin is now, I mean it’s one of the fastest growing in America is grow, grow, grow, it’s not just suburban spread, it’s regenerating areas as well, you know there is much seen over in London. So, sometimes, what becomes hipster or the next trendy, millionaires row, doesn’t- the schools are still the same schools as fifty years ago, still providing in the same area. And sometimes is like, oh we just assumed it would be, it’s like, no, you’ve got- you know, you start thinking on things like that-
Kevin: So health and education, that’s really practical stuff that people need to think about and- but there’s the plus side as well, I mean, accommodation over here, I know Austin is a little bit- I mean what is the accommodation like in Austin, we’re hearing different things, we’re hearing that it’s horrendous downtown trying to find somewhere to live, in these areas, but if you go a bit further out, you can find land and property. What you take on that, Andy?
Andy: Yes, so, I’ve been very lucky, I mean, I’ve got- when I’ve got over here, you know it’s in 2003, I bought a home in Northford and we’re actually in the downtown area, bought the property on the 29th Street, so, very close to everything, Downtown, I got it still, before the real big boom in Austin, is not actually in East London if you bought somewhere around twenty years ago, what is worth now. Austin has also in the last dozen years, there has been a massive growth with apartment blocks and condos et cetera, if you look out it’s a beautiful view here. Most of these are nearly now sort of a third of them are actually apartments.
You know there was a downtown living then and that’s been great for the younger people come here. The east side behind you gentlemen, exactly the same, condos springing up everywhere. It’s good, I believe, affordable rent as well, for the young, I mean it’s not cheap, but you know Austin is tech city, it is- the wages are good. But then yes, you do have the nice option of going out. If you like it, if ever one heard of the American suburbs then you’ve got that here, you can have cheaper ones, you can have more expensive ones.
The spread here is big, I mean I laugh with people that, you know, the spread now from Austin north to south is literally like taking it from London to Ipswich, you know, it’s that spread. I mean, even now going south, we’re now looking at that building between Austin and San Antonio which is 70 miles. Ten years ago there was Austin, then there was just some gaps in markets, market’s gap, San Antonio is pretty much now fully connected, which, along that main road and just going out.
Kevin: Sebastian you’ve got a take on that, you live south of Austin, do you start to see Austin kind of growing, Metropolitan Austin growing out into the south?
Sebastian: Oh yeah, definitely I mean what Andy just said about, that, potentially at some point, that San Antonio and Austin over the new road Dallas Forth Road- that could happen, I mean, I was in the- I mean I had a ranch here so I see this, I saw this a bit with the- I was a bit worried because, I mean, land becomes really expensive and you know the galloping urbanization can also be the problem, you know. But of course it’s a testimony of the big success of Austin and this whole area. That there are massive developments, all of the place, and we talked to somebody yesterday about that, they are renting a house two bedroom house just like six minutes cycle ride from the center and they are paying 2000 dollars a month, which is, I mean, compared to San Francisco bay area you know it’s incredible, I mean, it’s a steal.
Andy: So I had property here as well, I rented out to students, that first house I bought. I rented off 3300 a month. Three bedrooms, three bathrooms, place, great for students, in that area, you know, could pay for your boarding, you know fantastic, rent, exactly it is in the- right now I think that Austin is like 1000 bucks bedrooms, you know, and so it is affordable, it’s also going up and up and up, I mean, it’s always the same with Austin, you know, with this success and of course that’s a good thing, traffic is heavier and rates get higher. [smiling]
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Kevin: Just for our listeners, we are looking out on this amazing view from your office here across I think that’s south of Austin. And it’s a beautiful sunny day, it really looks like a quintessential American scene downtown. And do you miss the rain and the damp and the underground in London?
Andy: You know I do. [smiling] You know, it’s funny, yes of course it’s beautiful, it’s lovely. I often describe Austin as- someone would say what is it like, I use the thought of, imagine it’s like Brighton, back home, obviously without the sea, it’s a- it’s a city, but it’s a small city, very artistic, music, but you know there is entrepreneurs there as well, not that many people have a bad word to say about it and it’s just seen as, you know, okay good place, so that’s how I would look at Austin. However, there’s always the grass is greener.
You know, so I can sit on a Sunday, you know, the wife is fed up with me, kids are noisy and, “god I love to be in a pub back home now, and read the Sunday paper”, just for the old days or my wife and I are sitting and finally we decide we can have a date night on a Friday and she says where should we go and it’s like, yeah, if I were in London tonight I can think of half a dozen places we’d love to go. So, I do, you know I get over to, takes a couple of times a year, but no, I definitely, but it’s definitely grass is greener, there is so much here, people give their right arm to have a, I mean the weather is one of them, I mean, take the boy out of London, but, with the weather I can ride a motorbike every morning, I can ride my motorbike around, I don’t need, you know it’s perfect, not to worry about the rain or snow or anything.
Kevin: And just to finish with, Andy what would you say to European entrepreneur, international entrepreneur, listening to this podcast, contemplating, expanding into, moving their business to the United States? What would be like sort of, like, word you would say to the new experience?
Andy: Well, first off, I’d say, you know, whatever the best way to contact, if it is directly through the programs here, I’ll be more than happy to fill anybody’s questions.
Kevin: Say, how can people come to you?
Andy: Well just very simply, I’ll give my personal andynpjones@gmail.com that’s the easiest one, just ping me at that one. So I think, what I found very interesting, one of the things that I’ve been heavily involved with, over the past six years is, oh it’s actually about eight years now, is, the government, through the consulate in Houston et cetera, so a real natural connection, between what is happening in Austin and what is happening in East London.
So I’ve been involved with the whole relationship in that tech world but now it’s now spread out to music and everything, between Austin and East London, but it’s growing to London and it’s really Great Britain in Texas now. One of the things that, this is my sort of advice to anybody who is thinking of coming over to the US or should we even say, you know, you’re sitting in an agency and you know, we’ve all known, as soon as you- whatever company you are, as soon as you have a website, you are a global company technically.
And even if you’re selling any of these cases or pots, you are a global company and if someone can see you in Austin try to think- you are global. A lot of people when they think they need to set a foot into America, just think they need New York or LA because it’s just the size, just the connection. And now, think of it as well, that’s just like saying, you know, as much as I love it, someone’s moving to the UK, got to be London or Manchester, why wouldn’t New Castle be the place, why wouldn’t somewhere smaller.
So one of the big things we’ve been really working with Austin, we see Austin as a great place, wonderful hub technology et cetera, we here at Capital Factory, where I work, so Capital Factory is and it isn’t like we work but it’s very technology based, but it doesn’t have to be technology, which is a great place, you know, for you to come and check out the place, we can sort you out, I mean come on in, we can get you a desk to work while you’re visiting so, to check it out. We have a relationship here, with Austin and the whole the old media center from the Olympic village of it’s here east and all the working occupying there we’re partners so anyone which is a member there, we have this constant back and forth.
Come and check it out, Austin is a welcoming place, it’s cheap to be here, do your ground work on the floor here, we can help you work out, give you introductions, these groups within the Capital Factory, who specialize on what do you need, give you introductions, these groups within the Capital Factory who specialize on what do you need to set up on here they are going to introduce you to, you know, how to, the visas, anything you need, a space for work here, help look for properties et cetera, so I do think that the work that’s been on- what’s been done by people in the past, you know, use to your advantage, effectively, just spend some time, book a period of time, come and check it out these people here that can help you in every aspect of setting up and bring you in the business over if it is right.
Kevin: That sounds great Andy, thanks very much.
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