Question 1

Founder and startup coaching

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From idea to actual startup – we'll assist you with our know-how on business plans, markets and competition, financing options, and much more. We're the experts when it comes to drawing up detailed startup roadmaps and assessing your needs in terms of consultations and qualifications.

Initial consultations, the founder coaching and the startup coaching we offer are for prospective founders, founders and entrepreneurs, startups, one-person enterprises as well as micro-enterprises and newly self-employed persons who fall under the new self-employment scheme (Neue Selbständige) – in the pre-founding phase and up to five years after founding. Completion of an initial consultation is a prerequisite for participation in the subsequent coaching sessions for founders.

Also, your business must have been founded in Vienna or already be headquartered in Vienna.

Note: We offer special consultations for women entrepreneurs. In addition, we provide consultations in the language you speak.

Initial consultations Startup coaching Impact coaching

Question 2

Growth coaching and expansion consultations

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Whether you have national or international expansion plans or wish to develop new business areas or consolidate your business relations with partners upstream or downstream of your value chain, we've got you covered. We offer strategic process and organisational development and connect you with financing partners.

Our growth coaching is geared towards assisting startups and entrepreneurs up to five years after founding. To qualify, a business must have been founded in Vienna and the growth objective must be clearly defined.

Note: We offer special consultations for women entrepreneurs. In addition, we can provide consultations in the language you speak on your premises.

Associations and people participating in the start-up programme (UGP) of the Austrian Public Employment Service (AMS) are not eligible.

Growth coaching Smart production Sustainable technology Social innovations

Question 3

Innovation consultations for technology companies and the creative industries

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We offer consultations on digital technologies, intelligent production, sustainable technologies, and for the development and implementation of social innovations. In addition, we can assist you with any issues related to new regulatory policies adopted at national, international, or EU level.

Our innovation consultations are for prospective founders, founders and entrepreneurs, startups, one-person enterprises and micro-enterprises as well as new self-employed persons who fall under the new self-employment scheme (Neue Selbständige) – in the pre-founding phase, startup phase, and up to five years after founding. To qualify, a business must have been founded in Vienna or already be headquartered in Vienna. If you're looking for consultations with a focus on the creative industries or the technology sector, we're here to help.

Note: We offer special consultations for women entrepreneurs. In addition, we can provide consultations in the language you speak on your premises.

Smart production Sustainable technology Digital technology Social innovations Co-creation workshop Consultations on your company premises

Question 4

Sustainability consultations

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We're here to assist companies at any stage in developing circular products and services, in resource conservation and material efficiency, impact analyses, and logic models as well as CO₂/methane calculations, and in your efforts to avoid rebound effects (effects through which the savings potential of efficiency improvements is not, or only partially, realised).

Our sustainability consultations are for businesses in the field of energy, mobility, logistics, constructions, urban development, assistive technology, food production, facility management, architecture, climate and impact, sustainable construction, circular economy, and urban mining.

Note: We offer special consultations for women entrepreneurs. In addition, we can provide consultations in your language on your premises.

Sustainable technology Digital technology Life sciences Social innovations Impact coaching

Question 5

Consultations on your business location

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We'll support you in your search and selection of a business location, assist you in finding office space and meeting rooms in the startup phase, and offer information on offices, properties, business parks, and networks in Vienna. We'll also support you We will also come to your company and discuss with you all matters concerning official channels, operating licences and your options for obtaining funding for your project in Vienna.

On-site consultations Business location consulting

Question 6

Consultations for companies moving to Vienna and international professionals

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We'll support you in your search and selection of a business location, assist you in finding office space and meeting rooms in the startup phase, and offer information on offices, properties, business parks, and networks in Vienna.

We also provide consultations to international professionals and executives, including their families, who are relocating to Vienna for professional reasons, expats already living in Vienna, and HR departments/managers with questions concerning their expat employees.

Note: We also provide consultations with a special focus on women entrepreneurs. In addition, we can provide consultations in your language, on your premises.

Expat Center Business Immigration Office International Businesses Business location consulting

We offer free consulations.

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