STARTERCENTER NRW: successful start-ups

Startercenter NRW offers start-up help to ensure that your first steps on the path to self-employment are successful: advice and information on business formations and company development are available at over 70 locations statewide.

Throughout North Rhine-Westphalia, over 70 Startercenters offer you information, individual advice and a wide range of training courses – and they are all free of charge.

The Startercenters in North Rhine-Westphalia are supported by Chambers of Crafts, Chambers of Industry and Commerce, and municipal business development agencies.

To find the Startercenter nearest to you, use the search facility on the website of Startercenter NRW.

The range of advice provided at starter centres is comprehensive and accompanies you through the entire start-up process.

This includes in particular:

Initial information

Roadmap for the next steps in self-employment – depending on where you stand with your business start-up
Starter package with materials for setting up a business
Information about events and seminars for business founders

Initial advice

Testing the business idea
Tips for preparing a business plan
Advice on the type of business foundation, e.g. franchising, company succession or team foundations
Information on corporate finance and funding programmes
Applying for grants, for example from the consultation programme for businesses in NRW

Intensive advice

Examination of the business plan in terms of feasibility and sustainability
Discussion of the financing concept
Preparation for the bank interview
If required, relaying of further advice for example

Support with business formation formalities

Tips for dealing with the authorities
Information about the necessary business formation formalities

All further information can be found on the website of Startercenter NRW.