- Business Start-Up

We support new businesses in Barcelona:
More than 10,000 business projects supported since 1999

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Business idea
Do you have a business idea in mind?
Legal entities and procedures
Everything you need to know for choosing the right legal entity and facing all the procedures for starting-up a business in Barcelona.
Marketing
Define your business strategy and get to know your market and your customers to make your company known and increase your sales.
Business plan
Would you like your business project to succeed? Then you need a business plan.
Business Taxes
Get to know all the taxes, rates and fiscal obligations that business located in Barcelona are obliged to pay.

Entrepreneur's profile
Are you an entrepreneur? Evaluate your potential to become an entrepreneur and improve your skills.
Funding
Discover the financial range at your fingertips.
Business management
The business plan must maintain strategic coherence between functional, organizational, financial and marketing aspects.
Location
Everything you need to know to decide best location for your business and get to know the associated legal procedures.

With Barcelona Activa you have full access to advice, activities, guides, reports, online services and useful links. Everything you need to start and run a business in Barcelona.

Upcoming seminars in english!!!

E commerce: steps to start a business Lear the basic steps you need to set up an online business and be successful Legal structures, forms and procedures for freelance professionals and SL-Sociedad Limitada All you need to know about forms and procedures to become a freelance professional and to create an SL-Sociedad Limitada- in Barcelona Tax system for freelance professionals and SL-Sociedad Limitada All you need to know about taxes to become a freelance professional and to create an SL – Sociedad Limitada- in Barcelona Your business financial plan and funding sources To find the best fundings to start a business in Barcelona and to build a great financial plan. Sell! And Lead your company to success Get to know and master the art of selling to successfully set up your company and make it grow!

If you would like to find out everything you need to start a business in Barcelona.
	The training seminars provide you with all the information on the different aspects relevant to start a business in Barcelona, such as the viability of the idea, the legal entity to choose or the best marketing strategies. Sign up for the seminars and jump from the business idea to the business.

Access to our online tools without leaving your home or office!

Work on your business idea and improve your knowledge of the process of setting up a company in Barcelona.

Business opportunities guide Business Trends Report in strategic sectors to Barcelona. Guide to the generation of business ideas Find out how ideas turn into viable businesses. Guide to raise funds Find out all the existing sources of funding your new business, from bank loans to public grants and subsidies. Guide to legal entities Learn about the legal entities you can use to incorporate a new company in Barcelona.

Attend any of our business start-up activities
	Barcelona Activa offers you a wide range of programs that respond to the most frequent questions associated with entrepreneurs and the start-up of a new business in Barcelona. Attend one of our welcome sessions and jump from the business idea to the business.

Find out our business start-up Tailor-made programs currently available.
Actions of support to start a new business in Barcelona targeted to specific groups of entrepreneurs or sector activities, using a standard structure: - business start-up and management training, - entrepreneurial skills, - counselling.

Below you will find the Chinese and Arabic versions of our online application Test Idea. Use it to evaluate the state of your business idea.

Test Idea in Chinese Chinese version of our Test Idea application. Test Idea in Arabic The Arabic version of our Test Idea application.