Summer School: Start-Up Management

Content

• Start-up basics: definitions, characteristics and the life cycle of a start-up
• Understanding and defining your product
• Defining and approaching your market
• Building organizations (value chain / founder & team / culture)
• Financial and legal issues
• How to present your company with a pitch

Description
Founding a start-up and also working in one has emerged as a real career opportunity. In comparison to corporates, start-ups have their own processes and tools that are important to understand when pursuing a career there.

During this summer school students will get to know the most important tools and practices that are specific to the everyday life of a start-up. From shaping the product, to approaching the market but also how to build the organization and what financial and legal topics need to be figured out. The acquired competences will be applied in a written assignment at the end of the summer school.