The pilot services for starting your own business

  • Preface Dagmar Ziegler Minister for Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Family of the State of Brandenburg. Every ship is guided safely into the harbour when the local pilot is on board. This also applies to our pilot services. They help you to get past the unknown, rough terrain that lies between you and your own successful business. Anybody who starts on this path is in for an adventure. Indeed, this is your entry into a new life, with new ideas and goals. All assistance which makes this path less dangerous is welcome. Our pilot services give you such assistance. We can advise you before you start up your business and during the initial phases, supporting you with competent expertise. When the course is over, you, as the founder of a new company, will be the “captain” and have to steer your ship yourself and then you will know how valuable the pilot services were. We want successful captains. That is why Land Brandenburg has been supporting regional pilot services since 2001. There are also pilot services for certain target groupsPreface Dagmar Ziegler Minister for Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Family of the State of Brandenburg. Every ship is guided safely into the harbour when the local pilot is on board. This also applies to our pilot services. They help you to get past the unknown, rough terrain that lies between you and your own successful business. Anybody who starts on this path is in for an adventure. Indeed, this is your entry into a new life, with new ideas and goals. All assistance which makes this path less dangerous is welcome. Our pilot services give you such assistance. We can advise you before you start up your business and during the initial phases, supporting you with competent expertise. When the course is over, you, as the founder of a new company, will be the “captain” and have to steer your ship yourself and then you will know how valuable the pilot services were. We want successful captains. That is why Land Brandenburg has been supporting regional pilot services since 2001. There are also pilot services for certain target groups of immigrants as well as the pilot services for colleges and universities. This is a broad spectrum of specific offers which reach people who meet the criteria of very special founder profiles. The subsidies from us are aimed toward helping everybody who wants to start up a business to prepare him or herself as well as possible and to avoid mistakes. Approximately 4,000 people who would like to start their own business availed themselves of the advisory services of our “pilots” between 2001 and 2004. This was very successful, as the evaluation of 2005 has shown! More than two thirds of these people successfully took the leap into self-employment. The proportion of women in this group rose continually to over 42 percent. These are just two examples of this success. The evaluators found that these pilot services definitely improved the climate for starting businesses in Land Brandenburg, both qualitatively and quantitatively, and thus recommended, without any reservations, that these services and their subsidies be continued. This is what we are doing. The subsidies have been expanded and also made more efficient. In the future, each of the colleges and universities in Land Brandenburg will have its very own pilot service. Secondly, all the pilot services will provide women with special advisory services in accordance with their needs. Finally, the elements of these subsidies will be more flexible so that the period of time now allowed for each case is varied in accordance with actual circumstances. Thus, for example, if the ship later finds itself in distress, one of our pilots can be flown in to help it with crisis management. This is being done because the problems which young companies actually face generally do not arise until after these companies have been formed, and in many such cases this happens despite extensive preparation. Then it turns out that planning was not in accord with actual practice or that business management skills and knowledge based on experience are not sufficient to solve the problems that have arisen. In future, young companies that run into troubled seas in this way can be coached by the pilot services during the first year after they are launched. In this way we help such founders to help themselves in that we instill courage, pass on experience and lead them out of the crisis which might even be threatening their existence as entrepreneurs. I wish you much success.zeige mehrzeige weniger

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URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:186-opus4-54709
Verlag:Potsdam
Dokumentart:Einzelveröffentlichung / Monografie
Sprache:Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:2008
Urhebende Körperschaft:Ministerium für Arbeit, Soziales, Gesundheit und Familie des Landes Brandenburg
Sonstige Beteiligte Körperschaft:Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF)
Datum der Freischaltung:27.04.2020
Seitenzahl:12 S.
Landkreise / Gemeinden:Land Brandenburg / Land Brandenburg
DDC-Klassifikation:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Lizenz (Deutsch):Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht.