I'm impressed (though not surprised) at the level of analysis and understanding of argentine themes by posters ITT. There's not a whole lot more I could add re:starting a business here.
The main issue (and I've seen this with expats setting up shop here) is the expectation differential. Particularly talking about people providing services or goods to the business owner.
Nejo, If you're bent on doing this, I'd conciously try to lower my expectations as much as I could. Something along these lines:
* People providing goods to me will act as if I didn't deserve to buy stuff from them and won't function under the premise: "treat your customer right and he'll come back"
* People providing services to me will take as long as necessary and that is to be expected. Also, if I don't push enough I won't get a premium service.
* Some key players in the business model (particularly brokers) will deceive me (or at least attempt so).
* I'll be at a disadvantage because of being a foreigner: some people will try to milk me because of it.
With that in mind, of course, feel free to procede happily. Your experience should probably not be as bad as that, but it certainly could.
In terms of my own experience:
We started our
business very (VERY) slowly from scratch, always taking tiny steps (we don't have an IRL shop yet, though it's coming soon). That makes for a much more pleasant experience, since your risks of getting screwed over are low. Also we always try to deal with the best people we can, and it's always better to go that extra mile to dodge bad providers.
The point, though, is that I'm sure many of the minor setbacks we have suffered feel neutral to me while to you they could be frustrating. Having lived all my life here, I'm accustomed to expecting bery little indeed from almost anyone.