Support Materials for Hamburg’s Startups

The Gründerplattform offers templates for creating a business plan in various formats. The free business plan tool also provides helpful assistance.

Unternehmenswerkstatt offers a template for creating a business and financial plan as well as support from an expert. And this is how it works: Register for free, create a start-up project and benefit from numerous advantages.

Here, founders learn how to identify relevant competitors and which comparison criteria are crucial for competitive analysis.

Here, founders can find instructions on how to develop their business model. Free tools such as Business Model Canvas support planning.

This test consists of 60 self-statements that you are asked to rate on a seven-point answer scale. It will probably take 10 minutes of your time to complete this questionnaire. There are no "right" or "wrong" assessments. The aim is to capture your personality and way of thinking.

KOINNOvationsplatz connects public clients and innovative companies. Clients can present their needs in challenges on the KOINNOvationsplatz. Innovative companies have the opportunity to participate in the challenges and present their solutions.

Early in every startup, founders have to decide which legal form best suits their company and team. The legal form finder provides help with making the decision.

In this podcast, founders learn everything about funding and support programmes for early-stage startups: What programmes are there and how do you apply for them?

A market analysis is essential to any pitch deck or business plan. In this podcast, founders learn about how they can determine market potential.

There’s a lot to consider in the early startup phase. In this Startup Dock podcast, founders learn what really matters at this stage.

The Scaleup Landing Pad Hamburg helps international scaleups to expand their business in Germany and Europe. Get access to a unique incentive menu and select the services your scaleup needs on your expansion journey free of charge.

Your pitch deck is the single most important document for getting investors for your startup. In this guide, we have condensed everything we ever learned from thousands of pitch decks, the feedback of investors to these decks, and the data which startups got actually funded.

In the WHO IS WHO you will find more than 100 important contacts and a comprehensive overview of who will guide you on your way to self-employment and while setting up your own business.

Support Materials

Business plan template

Business planning tool

Competitive analysis guide

Develop a business model

Founder personality test

Innovationsplattform KOINNOvationsplatz

Legal form finder

Podcast: Early-stage funding

Podcast: Market potential

Podcast: What’s the best startup route?

Scaleup Landing Pad Hamburg

The Ultimate Pitch Guide

WHO IS WHO in the Hamburg network for founders

Support Offers