German here: just creating and selling something is one thing that jumps to my mind.

The concept of “I have an idea and a bit of money so I’ll just found a company” is … Tiresome. Possible, yes, but the legal hurdles both good and bad are ridiculous. You need way more time than in the US just for the formal overhead and even then you are way more in it with your own private existence.

As founder “beschränkte Haftung” is not as limited as it sounds at first if you’re not firm in legalese for example.