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5 answers to the most pressing questions founders ask when looking for an investor
5 answers to the most pressing questions founders ask when looking for an investor

Let's look at the 5 most pressing questions of startups we often encounter at Konsultori.

Wie Sie Ihr Team auf die gemeinsame Strategie ausrichten - mit OKRs
How to align your team to the strategy together – with OKRs

How to align your team to the strategy together – with OKRs. From personal experience to organizatio…

Konsultori gratuliert 2023
Konsultori congratulates! March 2023

The success of our project partners and the start-ups and companies we support is also a reason for …

Ecosystem Hero of the Year Petra Wolkenstein Konsultori © Global Startup Awards.jpg
Konsultori won the Global Startup Ecosystem Hero Award 2023

Konsultori helps startup entrepreneurs with strategic business growth, organizational design and dig…

Petra Wolkenstein Startup Wise Guys Africa Nairobi Tech Summit
Investor Readiness for Africa-based startups

We support African start-ups with fundraising as part of the acceleration programme Startup Wise Guy…

How to raise money from investors self-course
Self-study course on Fundraising from investors

How to raise money from investors? Self-course from Konsultori Startup Academy.

Konsultori universe Buchklub
Bookclub Konsultori

Join the virtual Konsultori book club and let's expand the reading list together. Business books, re…

Partnering and Market Entry self-course
Expanding to a new market – self-paced course

Partnering and Market Entry. Self-course from Konsultori Startup Academy.

Expertise Unternehmensverkauf
What consulting can do for the sale of a company

What consulting can do for the sale of a company? An external advisor can help you avoid the classic…

Konsultori Academy © Konsultori Academy
Konsultori Academy is open!

Digital workshops for Accelerators and Startups. We transfer knowledge quickly and effectively. Our …

Michael Kubiena © Michael Kubiena
New partner at Konsultori – Welcome, Michael Kubiena!

"Asking the right questions. This is helped by an additional, holistic perspective that Konsultori c…

Case Study Njuskalo © Konsultori
Compensation architecture and performance management via OKRs

The best way? Involve the whole company in a dialogue about the services that affect its customers a…

Case Study Gastronometro © Konsultori
Developing a learning centre & curriculum for culinary discovery

Collaborations with prestigious European hospitality institutions underline Gastronometro's commitme…

Ecosystem Hero of the Year Petra Wolkenstein © Central European Startup Awards
Petra Wolkenstein named CESA Ecosystem Hero of the Year!

"I am proud to win the Ecosystem Hero of the Year award. I wish the fellow finalists all further suc…

Startup trainings for cooperation contracts within the accelerator „Arsenal Innovation Lab powered by Yolo“
Startup training for „Arsenal Innovation Lab powered by Yolo“

The process has ended with 50% of all startups receiving a contract from Arsenal Football Club, whic…

Verhandlungen Workshop © Female Future Festival
Negotiation workshop at the Female Future Festival in Vienna

Konsultori Workshop at the Female Future Festival: The good news is that you can improve your skills…

Vienna Business Agency - Venture Capital at the local level
Venture Capital in Austria and beyond

It was an honour to welcome Michael Schuster. Which criteria are most important to Speedinvest to fi…

Konsultori 10. Interview mit Petra Wolkenstein
Konsultori celebrates! 10 questions for Petra Wolkenstein.

"We will bring our expertise to our clients with even more employees internationally. We will stay i…

Case Study Financing strategy and project financing © Equinopathie nach Gundula Lorenz
Financing strategy and project financing

Financing strategy creation & project financing implementation. With the help of Konsultori, the nec…

Nicolas Gold and Markus Schaffer © Sheyn
Konsultori Role Models – Nicolas Gold and Markus Schaffer

Sheyn: a brand that combines a passion for design with the precision of architecture. What are the "…

Konsultori gratuliert 2022 Mai
Konsultori congratulates – April 2022

The success of our project partners and the start-ups and companies we support is a reason for us to…

Traiveling business inspiration
Konsultori Business Inspiration – Traivelling

The Konsultori Business Inspiration Traivelling – travel by train made easy. Konsultori congratulate…

Konsultori gratuliert
Konsultori congratulates

Congratulations to our project partners and the startups and companies we supported. Success stories…

Christine Friedreich role model
Konsultori Role Models – Christine Friedreich

The hospitality industry was hit dramatically by the COVID-19 crisis, but Friedreich Hospitality con…

Visionistas role model
Konsultori Role Models – Visionistas Strategy shift to digital

Founded by two brilliant women, Visionistas is the agency for companies that want to live social res…

Lena Marie Glaser role model
Konsultori role models – Lena Marie Glaser

Lena Marie Glaser is one of the founders who devotes her energy not only to her own business success…

Aleksey Igudesman role model
Konsultori Role Models – Music Traveler

Music Traveler Interview. How can entrepreneurs pursue their careers as artists while marketing thei…

Konsultori role models - Antje Mayer-Salvi © Brick & Motar
Konsultori role models – Antje Mayer-Salvi

Antje Mayer-Salvi is a key figure in the Viennese cultural scene and just as courageous, open and cr…

Drazen Ivanis role model
Konsultori Role Models Strategy in the crisis – Drazen Ivanis

Wowflow is a success story because it is a digital service that has been able to successfully execut…

Christine Seewlad business inpiration
Konsultori Business Inspiration – Christina Seewald

Keep calm and love fashion. Textile designer Christina Seewald responded to the Covid crisis with a …

Feasible role models
Konsultori Role Models – Feasible

Konsultori Role Models – Feasible. All about the startup Expansion Coaching through an interview wi…

Konsultori gratuliert 2021 Dezember
Konsultori congratulates – 2021 December

We love to follow inspiring stories and successes of our project partners and the startups and compa…

Expertise Beratung
Start SME succession planning well-advised

Wir freuen uns mit Petra Wolkenstein über den erfolgreichen Abschluss des EU-Programms "Advisors in …

Expertise Hidden Champions
Hidden Champions and SMEs: Success through a succession

Only recently we were able to conclude a successful company acquisition. Our involvement was on the …

Expertise Gazellenunternehmen
The leap to a fast-growing start-up. How it succeeds and what makes it so.

High growth companies stand for rapid growth and are thus regarded as job engines. But what makes th…

Expertise Markteintritt
The playbook for international market entry. This is how expansion can succeed.

Which markets are attractive, and which are rather difficult? Is there a common denominator? The pla…

Expertise online Match Making
How to present your startup at a virtual conference and online matchmaking

Switzerland Global Enterprise invited Petra Wolkenstein to use her experience in online sales and tr…

Expetrise Petra Wolkenstein Strategie
What does the expert say? Petra Wolkenstein about strategy development

Change is also an opportunity. But how do you recognize the right opportunities and how do you take …

Expertise Hidden Champion Strategie
Hidden Champion Strategy

Austrian SMEs and their path to becoming world market leaders. What small and medium-sized enterpris…

Expertise Optionen der Nachfolge
Options in succession

What options do entrepreneurs have when it comes to business succession?

Expertise direct funding partner wiener borse
Direct market plus as an IPO alternative for startups and SMEs

Konsultori is an accredited Direct Funding Partner of the Vienna Stock Exchange. SMEs and later-stag…

Expertise Corporate Startup Zumammenarbeit
Successfully shaping the collaboration between startups and corporates

Collaboration between corporates and startups can take the form of individual collaborations or prog…

Expertise Verhandlungen konsultori
What matters in interest-based negotiations

With over 15 years of negotiation tactics experience from M&A corporate, as well as startup investor…

Strategic investor and company sale of food startup Goldkehlchen
Strategic investor and company sale of food startup Goldkehlchen

Preparation of the entry of a strategic investor up to the support of the entire company sale as an …

Strategy Review for a digital marketplace
Strategy Review for a digital marketplace

Konsultori revised the strategy of a digital marketplace in Austria together with the management and…

Interim Business Development with the Startup Refinder
Interim Business Development with the Startup Refinder

The startup needed a 3-month interim business development staffing to define 2 new business areas, n…

Investor acquisition of an industry platform
Investor acquisition of an industry platform

To finance further expansion steps of a well-established Austrian industry platform, the founders wa…

Restart at HUBER GESTALTUNG
Restart at HUBER GESTALTUNG

The sharper positioning aligned with the existing core competencies enables HUBER GESTALTUNG to impl…

Startup Expansion Coaching for the "Geometry Gods" of Feasible
Startup Expansion Coaching for the “Geometry Gods” of Feasible

The CEOs of feasible needed coaching on several business topics (pricing, business model, financial …

Startup Negotiation Training for 11 B2B Startups - Follow-up Report
Startup Negotiation Training for 11 B2B Startups – Follow-up Report

The 9th batch of Startup Wiseguys ended with a negotiation training by konsultori and key2investors …

Company succession at beechange: Karin Haffert in an interview about her successful handover
Company succession at beechange: Karin Haffert in an interview about her successful handover

beechange is an online store where sustainable household products can be purchased. In November 2015…

Lorenz-Consult in an interview: What the strategic realignment has done for us
Lorenz-Consult in an interview: What the strategic realignment has done for us

In 2015, the Graz-based civil engineering office, now in its 2nd generation, carried out a strategic…

Financial planning and investor search at startup go2market
Financial planning and investor search at startup go2market

Financial planning and investor search at the startup go2market. Petra Wolkenstein: "It is a pleasur…

Supporting a cybersecurity Series A round
Supporting a cybersecurity Series A round

Accompanying Series A financing round Cybersecurity Whalebone. Petra Wolkenstein: "Richard Malovic a…

Architects marketing for an architectural firm - Beluga & Töchter Architects
Architects marketing for an architectural firm – Beluga & Töchter Architects

After 2 years of existence, the architects wanted to launch new campaigns to attract customers, in a…