Your professional training and experience will certainly play an important role in setting up a business and, above all, in running it successfully. If you do not have any commercial or business management skills, it would indeed be advisable to undergo further training in this area, but it is not compulsory. As you are probably already very busy with setting up your company, the preparations, your work and your private life, a distance learning course or correspondence course could also be an option for you, where you can learn exactly when you have time and leisure. Such a distance learning course can be completed as a crash course in one to two months while working, as a certificate course in six months or as an intensive study course in nine to twelve months. Such a course can teach you the basics of setting up a business, financing, accounting and law for business economists, but can also focus on other areas such as controlling, investment accounting, business administration, economics or corporate management.

Basic or foundation courses are not really suitable for people who have already taken a few steps when planning to set up a business and now want to move on to the implementation phase. We recommend seminars that deal with the actual implementation or individual coaching sessions where you can work on specific topics such as financing, legal form, insurance or the start-up process. In this way, prospective company founders can obtain the information they need for their own personal situation.

Many young entrepreneurs or company founders run blindly into their doom because they have a good business idea but have not considered all the important facts in advance, have too little knowledge or are too quick to implement it. The best business model is useless if you set it up in the wrong location where there is no demand for your services or products, so a needs assessment is essential if you want to be successful. The chosen legal form is also an important decision, as are the personal requirements and skills, as well as the financing. In a seminar on setting up a business, you will usually deal with the creation of a business plan, which includes all these factors, but also many more, such as the appropriate strategy and marketing measures, organizational charts and responsibilities, production facilities and logistics, insurance policy and deadlines, personnel planning and sales markets. A seminar like this will bring structure to your budding self-employment and a solid foundation on which to successfully pursue your goals.

If you are toying with the idea of setting up a business and have not yet done much concrete work, basic courses for company founders are ideal for taking a step-by-step approach to planning self-employment. However, having a business idea is an advantage if you are to benefit effectively from such a seminar, as you often develop your own rough concept during the seminar. However, this is not usually a must.