Smart-up Get support for your start-up idea

Smart-up enables students and employees in successfully imple-menting their start-up ideas and accompanies them on the way to-wards their own business.

Smart-up Hub Departement Wirtschaft
With Smart-up, entrepreneurial students, employees and alumni of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts benefit from a wide range of support services: Individual coaching, infrastructure (e.g. company address and co-working space) and matching with other students and external partners are just as much a part of the innovative program as inspirational workshops and events.

Smart-up also promotes exciting opportunities for students to shape their studies as a start-up garage: In various modules and courses, students acquire important entrepreneurial knowledge and skills. In particular, entrepreneurial students are offered the elective module Start-up Accelerator, in which you may autonomously develop your business idea or start-up and earn 3 ECTS for your qualified and quantified start-up commitment. More information on the procedure is available on MyCampus. Furthermore, they may generate valuable synergies between their studies and their start-up by writing their student theses (e.g. bachelor or master thesis) on a topic related to their business case.
 

Five tips for setting up a company

 

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1. Just do it - Your learning curve in a start-up is much steeper than in an ordi-nary job.
2. Put together a team that shares your passion for the same business idea.
3. Get across your business idea in an attractive way - orally in ten seconds and on charts in three to five minutes.
4. Test your idea with potential customers as early as possible and further de-velop it together with them.
5. Set up a concrete implementation plan with clear deadlines – and find a solu-tion for every issue on your way.