Frequently Asked Questions

Registered, logged-in users can navigate to the “myi2b” area and select the menu item “Business plan”.

A new business plan can be created there.

Give your business plan a name, enter the company name, federal state and a brief description of your business idea, and then select the submission category and the industry in which you want to set up a business.

Finally, you can choose whether you want to write your business plan using our online assistant or whether you want to upload one that has already been written.

You will then get a confirmation email to let you know if everything went well!
Best of luck!

After you submit your business plan(s) you will receive written expert feedback from two independent experts from the fields of start-ups, funding and financing.

The evaluations are based on criteria such as the completeness, comprehensibility and conclusiveness of the statements made in the business plan. In order to achieve the highest possible level of objectivity, our experts base their evaluation on the 125 questions listed in the handbook. In addition, the business ideas are usually questioned in terms of their chances of success and their ability to be financed (comment sections).

We would like to point out that the specialist feedback comprises our experts’ personal assessments, despite the key questions and criteria. In our opinion, this subjective rating reflects the reality of founding a company — very often contrary opinions have to be taken into account. If the feedback does not meet your expectations, please consider this as a possible perspective and potential sharpening stone for your business idea.

In the case of a repeated submission, the business plan is given to the same experts as in the first feedback round, ensuring a self-contained process. Non-revised re-submissions will therefore not receive another round of feedback.

With i2b you have the possibility to use three feedback loops.

Improve your plan and incorporate the expert feedback suggestions!

In principle, every submitted business plan receives feedback.

However, in order to get feedback from our experts, your plan must be complete! The completeness is checked by the i2b employees.

Our experts take a lot of time to review your plan and offer constructive criticism. As an outsider, they not only evaluate the individual parts, but also “the big picture”. It is therefore not possible for our experts to check only partial areas of the plan.

If your business plan has gaps that are too large, the i2b team will formulate constructive answers to your business plan by e-mail, in which the missing parts are pointed out. You can save the time these mini-feedbacks take by making sure your concept is complete before you submit it for feedback.

Specialist feedback from our experts takes a certain amount of time. They provide this service on a voluntary basis, which is why they are not always available immediately. Therefore please allow approx five weeks (or more during holidays and pandemic times) for the time between submission and receipt of the two feedback reports. This period of time has no effect on the submission deadline. Feedback only needs to be requested before the submission deadline.

At i2b you not only have the opportunity to have your written business concept checked by independent experts, but also the chance to get an award for it.

The i2b business plan competition was created specifically for this purpose.

The best business plans in Austria are chosen every year at a high-profile awards ceremony, where cash and non-cash prizes with a total value of over €200,000 are up for grabs!

You can find details about the competition here.

See our Conditions of Participation for the requirements for participation in the competition.

Registered, logged-in users can navigate to the “myi2b” area and select the menu item “Business plan”.

A new business plan can be created there.

Give your business plan a name, enter the company name, federal state and a brief description of your business idea, and then select the submission category and the industry in which you want to set up a business.

Finally, you can choose whether you want to write your business plan using our online assistant or whether you want to upload one that has already been written.

You will then get a confirmation email to let you know if everything went well!
Best of luck!

Yes!

Plans that are submitted directly to the competition also receive feedback from two specialists. However, business plans submitted directly to the competition cannot be revised or improved.

We therefore recommend submitting your plan for feedback first, and then submitting it to the competition after any corrections or additions have been made.

A business plan can only be submitted for the competition once.

The score received is decisive for the ranking in the competition, whereby the lower the score, the higher your chances of being invited to the final/pitch.

If you do not make it to the final with your business plan in the current competition year, you can submit again in the next competition year, provided you comply with the Conditions of Participation.