Startup Support
MCEI has several support schemes that can help you and your business grow - no matter whether you are a student, alumnus/alumna of the University of Mannheim or not. Depending on your goals and objectives, we will help you accelerate your venture from scratch to growth stage with a variety of MCEI support schemes. What is more, we have a strong partner network to rely on which perfectly matches our support with even more opportunities and industry expertise. Find more information in our MCEI Support and Partner Support categories below and have a look at how we can help you advance!
In the context of the Mannheim Forum, MCEI joined the Startup Lounge organized by thinc! on Friday afternoon. Along the MCEI team members Dennis Lips and Jan Zybura, two highly ambitious student founders, Felix Lander (SponsoRun) and Gregor Tränkle (KLM Mobile Solutions), joined the team to engage in manifold student questions.
Student Candidates can join our Inside the Venture team and apply directly via e-mail or MCEI message to Jan Zybura. Please add your relevant CV to give some indication on which project suits you best. You will then be added to a dedicated Inside the Venture Group within our MCEI network to provide you with a community of knowledge exchange.
You have finalized your business concept, put together a business plan and registered your new business properly? Now that’s a good reason to celebrate (Hint: Invite your customers and new business partners to your opening in order to use this event as effective advertising). Marketing & Sales Now you need to work on the precise implementation of your business concept:…
On April 12th, Wilhelm Josten, the founder of the retail chain BUTLERS, joins the next business breakfast organized by our ifm colleagues (ifm Förderkreis). After studying business administration, positions in the Aldi Group, in BBE Consulting and the Deutsche Post, Wilhelm Josten founded BUTLERS in 1999. The retail chain employs around 1,000 employees in 150 branches in Germany and abroad.…
The sole development of an innovative idea does not guarantee a sustainable competitive advantage. To ensure the economic exploitation of innovative techniques, processes or products, innovators have to possess correspondent rights and be able to enforce them legally. Below you will find useful advice on how to avoid the imitation of your ideas, inventions and developments or at least be…
