When Daniel and his partners were looking to expand their seed and soil business to a new country, they chose Estonia. They are glad they did.

Their new country of operations, they learned, was using a unique e-business registry system that lets entrepreneurs set up their businesses entirely online, using their national ID cards.

Daniel was amazed to find out that there wouldn't have to be a notary visit – all three partners ended up submitting the required documents over the internet, with the help of digital signatures. It didn't even matter that one of the partners was at a conference half a world away. Best of all, the whole process barely took 20 minutes.

They were also able to check a national online land registry to make sure there were no doubts about the ownership of a farm they were purchasing – no worries about a deal gone wrong.

Within a couple days Daniel and his partners practically had the business up and running, and were already finding local clients. Yes, when they chose Estonia, they had made the right choice indeed.