Starting a business can prove challenging, but it can also be the best decision of your life. Even when a business idea is a good one, it requires a lot of planning and effort to turn the idea into a successful business. In the beginning it important to think about the following questions:
- Do you have a profitable business idea ?
- Are you ready to become an entrepreneur ?
- What kind of business do you want to do ?
This is how EnterpriseHelsinki works
1. Start by reading the Startup Guide
You can order it from EnterpriseHelsinki in printed form or read it online. The Startup Guide is offered in eleven languages (Finnish, Swedish, English, Arabic, Turkish, Estonian, French, Chinese, Russian, Somali and Kurdish)
>> Startup Guide(in English)
>>www.masuuni.info/articles/521(Other languages)
2. Sign up and participate in the Entrepreneur? - Info session
Entrepreneur? –info session consist of the following topics; entrepreneurship, business idea, preliminary business plan, profitability calculation, business forms, taxation, public services, insurance, etc.
Entrepreneur?-info session provides an overall picture of entrepreneurship and gives tools for making a business plan and business calculations.
>> More: "How to start a company?" information sessions
3. Make a preliminary business plan and business calculations
It is vital to make a business plan if you are a prospective entrepreneur. It helps you to explain what your business idea is all about. You will need the business plan when you come to counseling and when you apply for loans, funding, start-up grant, etc. Here are the key questions:- What are you selling?
- To whom are you selling it to?
- How does your business work?
Make the business plan online:
4. Book an appointment to our startup counselling
It is higly recommended that you have a ready made business plan before you come to counselling. It is benefitial because business advisors can give better advice when they understand the idea better.
Consultations will focus on your particular concept and issues that concern you. Consultations with our business advisors are strictly confidential and free of charge. Please reserve approximately 1-2 hours for the counseling session.
- First we identify your situation, your skills and your suitability and motivation to become an entrepreneur.
- We discuss and ask questions designed to clarify how you intend to act as an entrepreneur.
- We go through your business plan, calculations, profitability, start-up funding needs and potential funding sources together.
- We also go through marketing, insurance and tax issues, company form and the necessary contacts with the authorities.
We do not necessarily have time to go through all the details on one occasion, and will often have to agree on a further meeting.
- Phone(+358) 9 310 36360
5. In the future
As a client of a business advisor you can continue for as long as you feel necessary. Even after you have founded a company it is still possible to use our other services:- EnterpriseHelsinki’s entrepreneur courses
- Develop your business in EnterpriseHelsinki`s incubator centrer
