Registration Start-up Class English below

Starting a Business in Berlin

Every entrepreneur has a lot of questions before setting up own business. Especially when we talk about bureaucracy process in Germany. This page should provide you a basic information with regard to “How to start business in Berlin”. Moreover we invite you to visit our webinar Start-up Class.
Register now for the next  Start-up Class “How to start business in Berlin”
„Starting a Business in Berlin - A Beginner's Guide“ contains all important information needed by a business founder or start-up company in Berlin. It addresses questions as to what legal form you may choose, how to organise your company sustainable, what taxes you must pay, what insurances you must think of and many more.
The entire brochure can be viewed as an ebook or downloaded as a  PDF file. (PDF-Datei · 6241 KB)

Exclusive Start-up Class refugees from Ukraine.

Content of the brochure:

General Information
What are my strenghts?
Legal Questions and Taxes
How do I plan my business?
Financial Plan
How does financing work and where does the money come from?
What sort of insurance do I need?
For the near future

Want to start a business in Berlin? In this course in english you’ll be provided with  BASIC info on how it works. We offer this online class with advisors of IHK and other business founders. You can ask questions and connect to other people in the same situation. There will be small-medium sized groups of people to make sure that everyone can talk about his/her business idea. 
  • When? On June 28th  2022 from 1.00 - 4.00 p.m.
  • How much? 59,00 Euro 
  • Where? Online
Start-up Class - How to start a business in Berlin with the focus “How to Start a Sustainable Business”
 Please read our terms and conditions.

Our advisors will lead you trough the next topics:

  1. Obtaining a residence permit for self-employment
  2. ‘Gewerbe’ – Freelancer – Skilled Crafts
  3. Before starting
    1. Selection of a legal form (Rechtsform)
    2. Funding (funding for sustainable company)
    3. Business plan (sustainability in the business plan)
    4. Required licenses
  4. Registering a business step by step
    1. Commercial register (Handelsregister)
    2. Registering at the trade office (Gewerbeamt)
    3. (Social) Insurances
    4. Starting a side business – an alternative to full time self-employment
    5. Taxes

Our next class:


28.06.2022 to register please click here.
06.09.2022 to register please click here.
18.10.2022 to register please click here. 
15.11.2022 to register please click here.
13.12.2022 to register please click here. 
Dear participants, if all places are allready overbooked plase contact us, we will try to do our best to offer you a another place.
If you plan to start a side hustle, please visit our website with the information about  “Starting a side business”
You are planning to start a business for the first time as a commercial trader (no freelancers or crafts) in Berlin and you have questions on how to set it up? Get in touch and we’ll find the answers to your questions