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Smart-up Ideation Booklet
Develop your business model according to the Lean Canvas method.
Lean Canvas Soziale Arbeit
The Lean Canvas for Social Work helps you to solidify your idea for a social project and answer all the important questions.
Business Model Lean Canvas
The optimized form of the Business Model Canvas for start-ups.
Lean Canvas Website
Business Model Tools

Smart-up Events
Meet experts, start-ups and like-minded people!
Young Enterpreneurs Awards
Overview of national start-up awards.
Calendar from startupticker.ch
Comprehensive overview of start-up events.
Start-up weekend
From idea to foundation of a start-up in 54 hours!
Fuck-up Nights
Lessons learned from people who failed with their startups.
Swiss Excellence Forum
Discounted membership for start-ups and students and therefore access to the high-level network.

Startups.ch
Advice regarding founding, legal issues, taxes, business plan, accounting, free start-up course, blog with helpful tips and much more.
Swisscom StartUp
A Swisscom service site for start-ups and founders.
IFJ Start-up Support
The leading contact point in the Swiss start-up scene.
EasyGov
Free Internet portal of the government for founders.
startupticker.ch
Comprehensive news and insights from the Swiss start-up scene.
Sandborn
Consulting, investment and comprehensive operational support for start-ups.
Foundera
Start-up platform for your way into self-employment.
UNS Unternehmensschmiede
Infrastructure, workplace and know-how in the field of marketing, IT/EDP, human resources & finance.

Overview of the form of financing
What forms of financing are there for start-ups? What advantages and disadvantages do they offer? Which is best suited for your start-up - Family, Friends&Fools / Business Angels / Venture Capital / Foundations / Crowdfunding?
First Ventures
An offer of the Gebert Rüf Foundation, which is aimed at students (BA and MA) and supports them with up to 150'000 CHF.
Young Enterpreneurs Awards
Pitching to make your startup take off? Here you will find an overview of all young entrepreneur awards.
Venture Kick
Generate start-up capital of up to CHF 130,000 and make important contacts in the process.
Overview Awards/Competitions on startupticker.ch
Crowdfunding
The most important crowdfunding platforms at a glance
Business Angels
List of Swiss Business Angels
Bridge
The program of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and Innosuisse for innovative researchers.
Gebert Rüf Foundation
For scientific projects
Hasler Foundation
Financial support for projects in the field of teaching, research and innovation.
Leva
With Leva, you can raise capital for your startup faster and easier by managing your funding round and investors online.
Wartmann Futura
Access to "smaller" investments in the seed phase.
Schwyzer Kantonalbank
Initial financing for start-ups.
Shark Channel
New attractive platform to attract investors.

Smart-up Guide “Rechtliche Hotspots für Start-ups“
The exclusive guide by Ueli Grüter, lawyer and lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, offers help with the most important questions.
Blog Juristenfutter
Learn more about current legal challenges on the blog.
Support with the foundation via Startups.ch
You want to start your own business? If you decide to handle the legal start-up procedure with Startups.ch you will receive a discount of CHF 100.- via Smart-up (valid for students of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts). Get in touch with us!
Intellectual property
The property rights of the innovative and creative: Everything on the subject in the clear brochure "Gedacht. Made. Protected. Trademarks, Patents and Co. in a nutshell" by the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property.
Guide to social insurance for SME's
Information on the authorization procedure for employees of non-EU/EFTA startups in Switzerland
Provetia Treuhand AG
The personal, uncomplicated and cost-effective fiduciary company for the foundation and competent support. Your figures in trustworthy hands.

Upwork
Assign short-term or long-term jobs and projects to freelancers worldwide.
Nexanet Cloud solutions
Cloud services made to fit your needs.
Deeptrue
Efficient and cost-effective surveys for innovations.
DialogBits
Smart chatbots
JettSEO
High-Speed SEO Optimization
IT Labs
Tailor-made, highly professional IT solutions – production in North Macedonia, contact point in Switzerland
AI Thesis Coach
Get instant feedback on your academic work

getAbstract
Summaries of non-fiction books on entrepreneurship (login via HSLU account).
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
GRÜNDEN - the handbook for starting a business

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