Designed to boost your skills and your project, the VentureLab tools have been grouped into six major skill districts. Choose your own route and walk these streets in the way that best suits your needs.
Review your personal aspirations. Take a step back from your underlying motivation. Identify and develop your strengths. Then, put all of it into action to drive your project forward!
Hone your skills
Comprehensively develop your entrepreneurial knowledge thanks to short training courses on business essentials (communication, legal, financial, marketing, and more).
Surround yourself with talent
Surround yourself with talented individuals that complement your abilities and build a strong team to give your project the best launch possible. Work together to consolidate a common business vision and give your project a strong purpose.
Contact point
Aurélie Neirinck
Project Manager
“Doing what you love makes you radiant, powerful and useful” — Cyril Dion, Animal
Marketplace
Test your idea and find your clients
Validate your idea
Use pretotyping techniques to meet your future clients, test your ideas and fine-tune your product or service to meet market needs.
Hone your skills
Comprehensively develop your entrepreneurial knowledge thanks to short training courses on business essentials (communication, legal, financial, marketing and more).
Surround yourself with talent
Surround yourself with talented individuals that complement your abilities and build a strong team to give your project the best launch possible. Work together to consolidate a common business vision and give your project a strong purpose.
Contact points
Hugo Jamin
Young entrepreneur sales and networks acceleration manager
“Dare to think big, start small, and always be moving forward.”
Amandine Sanfratello
Entrepreneurship program coordinator
“Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.” — Brian Tracy
Legal and financial district
Develop an economically, environmentally and socially robust business
Establish your financial strategy
Discover the various possible sources of investment, develop your financial plan and benefit from the advice of experts, and identify both the key indicators for the sustainable pursuit of your activities and the investors likely to support you.
Create your business
Select the appropriate legal form for your project, put in place a solid legal and administrative framework, find out about the formalities surrounding starting a business, and learn how to set up the management of your business by structuring its governance bodies.
Know your responsibilities and protect your rights
Find out about the legal framework related to the development of entrepreneurial projects (corporate and commercial law, intellectual property, etc.), be aware of your rights and obligations so you can take on your responsibilities, prepare key documents (statutes, co-founder agreements, shareholder agreements, etc.) and ensure that you have a clear legal framework for your partnership relations.
Contact point
Isaline Thirion
Legal and financial projects manager
« Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive. » — Howard Thurman
Innovation and sustainable solutions district
Start a business with impact and with meaning
Understand
Familiarise yourself with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and discover how entrepreneurship can create real solutions to the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Challenge and strengthen
Question the impact of your project and develop your own solution for the future, in line with your personal aspirations and the world around you, thanks to the strength and support of the group. Integrate sustainable development tools into your project.
Be inspired and meet new people
Inspiring events, meetings, exchanges and stories that offer another vision of the future: a new, collective narrative!
Contact point
Aurélie Neirinck
Project Manager
“If one person dreams alone... It is only a dream. When many people dream together... It is the beginning of a new reality.” — Friedrich Hundertwasser
Media district
Highlight your project and activate your community
Devise your communication strategy
Define clear objectives, establish a concrete communication plan, develop a brand identity in line with your vibe and activate the right networks to reach the right targets!
Getting your name out there
Learning how to write a press release and maintaining good relations with journalists is key to getting those radio interviews, TV appearances, and articles written about your project!
Mobilise your community
Build up a social media community of followers across your various platforms.
Contact point
Marine Nyssen
Communications and press relations manager
“Communication is about understanding the listener.” — Jean Abraham
International district
Take your project across borders
Explore new markets
The world is your oyster! Discover new markets to develop your business thanks to scholarships, competitions, international events and networking!
Maximise your inspiration
There is a world beyond the borders of Belgium and entering foreign markets requires more than just having your website translated! Exchanging with other cultures is an opportunity to perceive your project differently, to bring out new ideas and to take a step back.
Develop your international network
Your future partner may be living abroad. It’s never too early to build your network and we’re here to help.
Contact point
Amandine Sanfratello
Entrepreneurship program coordinator
“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” — Henry Miller
