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Advice for start-ups: from your business idea to a successful start-up

Startups and fledging companies
Startups and fledging companies
Startups and fledging companies
All beginnings are difficult – but fortune favours the brave. Helvetia helps fledgling companies along their road to success with useful tips about the start-up scene.

Ready to launch your own company

Innovation always involves taking risks. Especially in early phases of a company launch, young entrepreneurs and founders have to grapple with risks and uncertainty. However, this early phase also offers many chances and opportunities, and it is essential to keep a close eye on them. Helvetia has put together various tips to help young entrepreneurs and new business owners to seize opportunities along their path, starting from a business idea and company launch to a successful young enterprise.

Tips for start-ups and fledgling companies

Finding a business idea

Every business starts with an idea. And there are different methods for finding the most promising one.

  • How to come up with a successful business idea

Analyse the market and the competition

A market analysis is essential to reducing risks. Here, too, different models and methods can produce the desired result.

  • Market analysis methods

Develop a business model

Turning your idea into a business model is not easy. The Business Model Canvas helps you develop a sound business model.

  • Develop a business model

Design a minimum viable product (MVP)

The customer-centric approach focuses on a product’s key features and helps to avoid high production costs.

  • Design a Minimum Viable Product

Draw up a business plan

A business plan fulfils several purposes. It provides information on economic potential and informs investors about a start-up’s future.

  • Draw up a business plan

The right insurance cover

Which insurance cover is right for your company depends on the business model and the industry. With just a few clicks, the SEM Check helps you choose the right insurance cover.

  • Start SME Check

Insurance for start-ups

Protect yourself and your business partners against potential risks. Helvetia offers young business owners a 50% discount on different types of insurance.

Benefit now

The right mindset for company founders

Entrepreneurs are everywhere

Anyone can become an entrepreneur and create his or her own start-up. Trust in your strengths.

Work smarter not harder

Don’t ask yourself how to build a product. Ask why a product or service should be developed and how it can be transformed into a sustainable business.

Build-Measure-Learn

Agile development means constantly leaning from experience. Build, measure and learn from your experiences to reduce risks.

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