This course is intended for all students who have ever thought about starting their own company or actually plan to do so.
Also students with an idea who already or not yet know how to market their product will find this course very useful. It will be shown how easy it is to start a business nowadays. The university gives founders the support they need. Within the framework of a cross-faculty university-wide association of institutions, interested students are provided with simple tools for a business start-up. These include working out a business plan, preparing pitches, and how to get funding and support before, during and after the startup.

You will learn exciting stories of founders and start-ups around the university and if you are further interested after the course, you can apply for the incubator program "One Small Step". Here you can set the course for your career as a company founder.

The Lecture and Exercise of "StartUp Entrepreneurship (43EMS0090V)" will take place weekly on wednesday at 12:00 c.t. - 16:00 in Room H-E 002 at the Chair for Embedded Systems.  

Kick-Off: 12.March 2023

The topics of the course are:

  • Business Idea / Innovation
  • Business Model / Team
  • Market and Competitor Analysis
  • Start-up Ecosystem in Siegen
  • Financing Options / The Proposal
  • Prototyping / Incubator
  • IP/ forms of enterprise/corporate law
  • The perfect pitch

Examination performance for successfully passing the course:

  • Pitch deck/ Final pitch (50% of Grade)
  • Term paper: Business plan (50% of Grade)

Qualification Objective:

Teaching skills, analysis techniques and presentation to start up a business.
Successful editing and creation of:
  • Business Model Canvas
  • Business plan
  • Business pitches

Methods:

  • Lectures
  • Excercises
  • Innovation/Creativity Tools (e.g. 6-3-5 Method)
  • Teambuilding Tools (e.g. 16 Personalities)
  • Case Studies
  • Business Simulation
  • Business Model Canvas
  • Pitchtraining
  • Excursions

Information about the Businessplan:

  • At least 5000 Words per student (e.g. for teams with 3 students = 15000 Words)
  • Content: See lectures and exercises
  • Business Idea, Team, Business Model, Businessplan, Market and Competitor Analysis
  • Deadline: 28.06.2023
  • Upload via Moodle
  • Two documents: PDF-file and additional Word file
  • German or English
  • No specific design or format - feel free to be creative