Startup coaching

Starting a business requires you to overcome numerous challenges along the way. Our free Face-2-Face coaching assists you with specific issues relating to everyday business life and lasts for a maximum of four hours.

Key areas of focus:

• Creating a detailed start-up roadmap and assessing the need for advice and qualification
• Business plan know-how
• Company and organisational form
• Market and competition
• Target groups and acquisition of customers
• Income tax table
• General information about the right access to capital (equity, bank financing, subsidies, alternative financing)
• Putting together the relevant documents (business plan, company presentations, market research, etc.)
• Support with issues including product pricing, benchmarks and sales planning

Target group

• Prospective founders, founders and entrepreneurs
• Start-ups, one-person enterprises and micro-enterprises, incl. newly self-employed people
• Pre-start-up phase, start-up phase and post-start-up phase up to five years after foundation
• The business must have been founded in Vienna or have its registered office in Vienna
• Special coaching focusing on the creative industries and technology sector is also available
• Associations or people participating in the start-up programme (UGP) of the Public Employment Service (AMS) are not eligible for support.

Our start-up coaching is available in 17 languages. 

Please note the eligibility requirements. (PDF)

All services can take place in person or online.

Plus: Academy workshops

The free Academy workshops provide company-related expertise for all aspects of business development. Get more information and register now!

The project "Smart Founders " is co-funded in the IBW/EFRE- & JTF program.