A good idea always comes first. In Jena, entrepreneurs receive active support. Technology and start-up centers, extensive consulting services as well as various additional programmes are designed to support the launch of your own business. Even though every start-up has its own individual details, there is always a “common thread” how to proceed.
The pictograms on the right show the important steps on the road to professional self-employment (10 steps to starting your business):
1. Self-employment: yes or no?
2. Check: Does your business idea work?
3. Before the start: get informed and seek advice
4. Plan your business
5. Calculate your seed capital
6. Raise seed capital
7. Register your business, apply for permits
8. Plan your taxes
9. Insure your business & yourself
10. After starting: seek advice and get support
There are many good reasons to start-up your own business. All aspiring entrepreneurs should consider carefully in advance why they want to become self-employed. Both personal and professional qualifications have to be right. To find out whether you would be a good entrepreneur you can first speak with family and friends, and then move onto self-employed professionals you know. With your start-up consultant you can further discuss your findings. The focus should be on your own entrepreneurial skills as well as matching your perceptions of being self-employed with the reality of business life.
This orientation process should also take different paths to self-employment into consideration. For some a part-time business might make sense while others will start into full-time self-employment right from the beginning. Then there is the question whether a new business, a spin-off or rather a company succession would be a better fit.
At the end you should be able to make a clear decision for or against starting your own business.
Start-up consultants support you individually – right from the initial consultation, on to writing a business plan including marketing and professional development. The following overview of start-up consulting services in Jena is sorted by the individual offers for specific audiences.
Contact: Swen Köcher
Tel.: 03641 / 636 682
Mobile: 0152 / 566 581 96
Email: skoecher(at)parisat.de
Website: ThEx Enterprise
Further Languages: English
Services:
Contact: Gisbert Sachs
Tel.: 03643 / 851 221
Mobile: 0170 / 221 4785
Email: bds.akademie(at)t-online.de
Website: BDS Akademie
Further Languages: English
Contact: Frank Lenz
Tel.: 0365 / 8553-211
Fax: 0365 / 8553-77211
Email: lenz(at)gera.ihk.de
Website: IHK Ostthüringen zu Gera - Start-up support
Further Languages:
Services:
Contact: Petra Vetterlein
Tel.: 0365 / 8225-173
Mobile: 0160 / 742 9507
Fax: 0365 / 8225-199
Email: vetterlein(at)hwk-gera.de
Website: HWK für Ostthüringen - Existenzgründung
Contact: Manuela Schrodt
Tel.: 03641 / 379 621
Email: Jena.BCA(at)arbeitsagentur.de
Website: Agentur für Arbeit Jena
Services:
The Federal Employment Agency Jena provides information for self-employment under the following conditions:
Contact: Swen Köcher
Tel.: 03641 / 636 682
Mobile: 0152 / 566 581 96
Email: skoecher(at)parisat.de
Website: ThEx Enterprise
Further Languages: English
Services:
Current case management
Webseite: jenarbeit - Existenzgründer und Selbstständige (self-employed)
Contact: Daniela Scheler
Mobile: 0152 / 019 742 74
Email: info(at)sobaexa-coworking.de
Website: SOBAEXA-Coworking
Further Languages: English, Spanish
Services:
Contact: Benny Beyer
Tel.: 03641 / 7979-110
Fax: 03641 / 7979-129
Email: startup(at)kombinat01.de
Website: Kombinat 01
Services:
Contact: Swen Köcher
Tel.: 03641 / 636 682
Mobile: 0152 / 566 581 96
Email: skoecher(at)parisat.de
Website: ThEx Enterprise
Further Languages: English
Services:
Contact: Gisbert Sachs
Tel.: 03643 / 851 221
Mobile: 0170 / 221 4785
Email: bds.akademie(at)t-online.de
Website: BDS Akademie
Further Languages: English
Contact: Dipl.-Kfm. André Kabeck
Tel.: 03641 / 205 127
Fax: 03641 / 205 126
Email: gruenderservice(at)eah-jena.de
Website: Consultancy for founders at EAH Jena
Further Languages: English
Services:
Contact: Dr. Oliver Pänke
Tel.: 03641 / 930 869
Email: gruenderservice(at)uni-jena.de
Website: K1 - Der Gründerservice der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Further Languages: English
Services:
Contact: Gisbert Sachs
Tel.: 03643 / 851 221
Mobile: 0170 / 221 4785
Email: bds.akademie(at)t-online.de
Website: BDS Akademie
Further Languages: English
Services:
Contact: Swen Köcher
Tel.: 03641 / 636 682
Mobile: 0152 / 566 581 96
Email: skoecher(at)parisat.de
Website: ThEx Enterprise
Further Languages: English
Contact: Sonja Schaetzlein
Tel.: 03641 / 656836
Email: sonja.schaetzlein(at)leibniz-fli.de
Website: SPARK@fli
Leistungen:
Contact: Christiane Kilian
Tel.: 0361 / 78923-74
Fax: 0361 / 78923-44
Email: christiane.kilian(at)stift-thueringen.de
Website: ThEx innovativ
Services:
Contact: Dana Lipka
Tel.: 03641 / 573 33 12
Email: d.lipka(at)towerconsult.de
Website: TowerConsult GmbH - Gründungsberatung
Services:
Contact: Dr. Eike Dazert
Tel.: 03641 / 87610-40
Fax: 03641 / 87610-50
Email: info(at)medways.eu
Website: medways e.V.
Services:
Contact: Thomas Bauer
Tel.: 03641 / 573 36 50
Fax: 03641 / 573 36 59
Email: info(at)optonet-jena.de
Website: OptoNet e.V.
Services:
Contact: M.Eng. Paul-Gerald Dittrich
Tel.: 0175 / 5280 223
Fax: 03641 / 6751 11
Email: pg.dittrich(at)spectronet.de
Website: SpectroNet
Further Languages: English
Services:
Contact: Dipl.-Kfm. André Kabeck
Tel.: 03641 / 205 127
Fax: 03641 / 205 126
Email: gruenderservice(at)eah-jena.de
Website: Consultancy for founders at EAH Jena
Further Languages: English
Services:
Contact: Dr. Oliver Pänke
Tel.: 03641 / 930 869
Email: gruenderservice(at)uni-jena.de
Website: K1 - Der Gründerservice der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Further Languages: English
Services: