Start-Up Management will take place in the second term of the winter semester 2025/2026 (December 1, 2025–February 6, 2026).

It consists of two submodules, each in one session: 

1. Lecture: Founding and Scaling Ventures - Lecture, interactive sessions, case studies, and breaks, Juridicum - J4

2. Tutorial: Business Growth Tutorial -  Guest lecture and Q&A with one of fifive mentors, Juridicum - J4

• 04.12.2025, 2:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.: Kick-Off
• 11.12.2025, 2:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
• 18.12.2025, 2:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
• 08.01.2026, 2:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
• 15.01.2026, 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.: Virtual Q&A-Session per team
• 22.01.2026, 2:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.: Closing event

Registration takes place via Learnweb. You will receive the password for registration in the first lecture. Separate registration via our chair is not necessary. The exam is expected to take place during the regular exam period. For all further questions, please use the Learnweb discussion forum.

The course is practical, interactive, and startup-focused.
The course content is divided into topics relevant to starting a business before founding, during founding, and after founding. The content is taught through theory- and practice-based lectures, case studies, and practical guest lectures. The primary goal of the course is to provide practical insights into the personal and organizational interactions associated with founding a company and the management of a young company. In addition, legal and tax issues affecting founders are addressed, for example in the start-up process. Students are given the necessary tools to directly apply the methods they have learned and thus enable young companies to achieve sustainable growth potential.

Five well-known entrepreneurs and start-up experts will each give a guest lecture as part of the “Business Growth Tutorial” following the lectures and will be available to students as mentors and coaches for their start-up ideas. The interdisciplinary teams usually consist of 5-6 students who are working on their fictional, realistic—and perhaps later real—start-up idea.

In this course students:

• learn what needs to be considered from a legal,  tax, and management perspective before and during the start-up phase, and how to found a company.
• understand basic strategies for managing and developing a newly founded company.
• receive tips and learn from experienced companies with different backgrounds and business models on how to scale companies. 
• are provided with frameworks they can use to build and develop their start-up.

60% written paper (in a group if necessary, max. 30 pages),
40% partial exam (45 min, the exam presumably takes place in the regular examination phase; more detailed information can be found on the website of the examination office)