Start2Business was created according to the need of Swiss Business Group to dispose of an interconnected network. Start2Business consists in a tool for the internationalization of SME, which develops through an online platform: www.starttobusiness.com. Start2Business platform is a brand new corporate business network, through which Swiss Business Group could create a professional meeting point, a virtual conference hall, where entrepreneurs, professionals, and all those who are interested in developing their own business, could find the opportunity to experience continuous matching occasions.
Start2Business is meant to be the tool through which users can develop their own entrepreneurial activities in an ideal way. Every entrepreneur can easily connect on the platform and carry on his or her own business operations, in a quick and efficient way, saving costs and time.
Start2Business offers the most advanced tools of Web 2.0, such as highly- defined video chat and video conference call, the integrated newsletter system, available for users, messages, and many more. Soon, a Web Tv system will be integrated for users' purposes. All these tools make the platform one of a kind and favor a simple and quick interaction, and the best contents use.
Start2Business offers different profiles to those entrepreneurs and companies who are interested in improving their own business activity:
Network Member: it is the simple user of the platform. It is represented by a company or a single entrepreneur having a good business idea, looking for potential partners, financiers and investors. Every user can fill in the personal and corporate profile, describing its activities or business ideas, in order to introduce itself to other users.
Business Starter: the Business Starter is a professional and a referral subject for the area in charge, who provides support in the management of business operations through the online platform. The main task of a Business Starter is to manage business operations of those users pertaining to the area in charge, in order to guarantee the best development of the operations. Furthermore, the Business Starter represents the matching point between Network Members and the other two core profiles of Start2Business: Service and Premium Network.
Service Network: it is represented by qualified entities aiming at introducing their services to the platform. Members offering services can introduce their own image in a positive and effective way, becoming part of network boasting high visibility in the platform.
Premium Network: every company has as main priority, it is to say the establishment of a solid and reliable network, made up by international specialists, highly-qualified advisors and carefully-selected companies. All these figures, together, represent the Premium Network, always developing, on which entrepreneurs can rely on in case of startup of a company or the improvement of an existing business activity.
Besides these profiles, and the figure of institutional Partner of the platform, among which it is worth notice SKV, the Swiss Association of SMEs, and Assoii Suisse, the Association of Italian Entrepreneurs in Switzerland, as well as Banca Popolare di Sondrio Group and BPS Suisse, there exists another important one, the so-called Supporter profile.
To become Supporter of Start2Business means to contribute to the technological development of the platform, in order to improve other new tools for the users of the platform. As return, Supporter receives exclusive services both from the platform and Swiss Business Group, specifically oriented to the development of business activities.
Along with the tools of the online platform, Start2Business is concretely engaged in developing internationalization projects by means of a further tool, a more traditional one: Start2Business Magazine.
Start2Business Magazine represents the printed magazine of S2B platform, and wants to be, for all companies and entrepreneurs, as a showcase for the presentation and promotion of projects. To introduce in Start2Business Magazine represents a unique opportunity to effectively reach a customized target for the development of projects: the selected distribution according to the category of the project, in fact, is the real peculiarity of the magazine. Moreover, the opportunity to subscribe to the magazine, and receive a copy of it directly at home, allows to be always and constantly up-to-date about S2B business news, and much more: fill in the form at www.s2bmagazine.com.
Start2Business offers different solutions for development, collaboration and investment for companies and entrepreneurs. The network involved is highly selected and strongly business oriented, thus granting also the high quality of the proposed projects.
To become member of Start2Business is quick and simple: it is only needed to connect to www.starttobusiness.com, fill in the form and start to explore the opportunities and tools that the platform offers to users.
For further information, info@swissbg.ch