Every year, around 50,000 entrepreneurs in Upper Bavaria take the step into self-employment. The right information helps with preparation. Last Saturday, this year's existence fair took place at the MOC and offered founders an ideal information platform.
Around 1,600 visitors used the 21st Action and Information Day on November 14th at the MOC to gather the tools for their founding. In various specialist presentations and at more than 60 information stands The founders were able to clarify their questions about starting a business in individual discussions.
The main topic “MakeIT – How founders use the digital world” was particularly well received. Several startups interested in the topic of founding a company were also among the visitors. The presentations on various topics, from founding formalities to specific information, such as franchising, were well attended.
“The IHK existence shows how important personal exchange of experiences is for prospective founders and the opportunity to obtain compact information directly on site to get it,” says Chamber of Commerce and Industry start-up expert Harald Hof.
The three presentations from IHK Startup Unit were particularly popular, even among startups:
At the founder talk “Behind the scenes of a start-up – impressions, experiences and experiences by founders" with startup consultant Annemarie Grund (IHK) as moderator and the two founders Michael Szumielewski (StepzApp) and Thomas Gossmann (CleverFood) there was a lot on offer for the audience. Firstly, Michael presented his digital business start-up – a pedometer app and talked about his initial difficulties in finding a precise, well-functioning idea to set up his own business. Secondly, Thomas presented his “tangible” startup Clever Food – a delivery service for healthy food instead of pizza and burgers. The two young founders could hardly be more different – but they complemented each other in their statements about running a successful startup and their experiences with starting a business. During the talk, many questions came from the audience and even after the talk the two could hardly escape the questions.
You can read some of their statements on Twitter:
“Get a tax advisor who is also familiar with the digital sector if you want to start a digital business!” says @visu of the @StepzApp 💪
— Jessica Wagner (@MUC_Jessica) November 14, 2015
“Not everything that is written in the business plan will actually happen,” says Thomas from cleverfood at the #Existence2015 #MUCStartup — Munich Startup (@munich_startup) November 14, 2015
“Scalability is extremely important these days,” says @visu from @StepzApp at the Startup Panel of the #Existence2015 ↗
— Munich Startup (@munich_startup) November 14, 2015
“Not everything that is written in the business plan will actually happen,” says Thomas from cleverfood at the #Existence2015 #MUCStartup — Munich Startup (@munich_startup) November 14, 2015
Parallel to the reasoning talk, the topic of “From Backers to Perks – Crowdfunding for Founders. The crowdfunding consultant Linette Heimrich (IHK) first gave a concise and understandable presentation on the topic of crowdfunding and what the IHK specifically offers for those interested in crowdfunding. The second part of the event was dedicated to "Crowdfunding in Practice." Andreas Gölkel from pixx.io spoke about his experiences and impressions with the crowd. Pixx.io launched a successful campaign on Indiegogo last year, bringing its product to the crowd.
Concentrated #Crowdfunding-Knowledge today on the 1TP1454EXISTENCE with @IHK_MUC and crowd professional @AndreasGoelkel from @pixxiobox pic.twitter.com/ydVlKw5dvM
— Linette (@LinetteHeimrich) November 14, 2015
The Startup Unit's final presentation focused on internationalization. Asia-Pacific speaker and member of the Startup Unit – Ilga Koners (IHK) presented the various possibilities for internationalization and gave helpful tips on individual countries and funding programs.
If you were unable to attend the event or missed some of the lectures, you can download the respective lectures here.
