Entrepreneurship Toolbox.
Practical tools, templates and guides to build your business — from business model canvas to legal templates and pitch tips.
Entrepreneurship Toolbox
In one sentence
Practical “how-to” content, checklists and templates about starting up, administration, taxes/VAT, pricing, legal basics and pitching.
Category summary
The Toolbox is a collection of concrete resources that help you start and run a business faster and correctly: from step-by-step guides (getting started, VAT), to pricing and legal basics (terms & conditions, shareholders’ agreement), to tools/templates (financial plan), pitching and validation material, and thematic pages (social entrepreneurship, e-invoicing).
Classification (based on tags)
- Administratie & formaliteiten
- Belastingen & BTW
- Coaching & begeleiding
- Creatieve beroepen
- event locations
- Funding & VC's
- Ideation & Validation
- Impact & Duurzaamheid
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Juridisch
- Netwerk & events
- Pitchen
- Sociale bijdragen
- Student-zelfstandige
- Tools & templates
- Business Model Canvas (Osterwalder): 9 building blocks + step-by-step guide
- Does your brand name already exist? (Early Trademark Screening tool)
- Financial plan
- General terms & conditions: how to draft them
- Gentrepreneur FAQ
- Information obligations for webshops (FPS Finance FAQ)
- Mandatory e-invoicing (Peppol)
- Shareholders’ agreement for your startup
- Social Innovation Atelier (online modules)
- SWOT analysis: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities & threats (VLAIO)
- VLAIO Starter Guide: your guide to success as an entrepreneur
- Zalenzoeker (City of Ghent): finding venues and applying for city venues
Table of contents (all articles)
- Business Model Canvas (Osterwalder): 9 building blocks + step-by-step guide
- Company forms & non-profit (Belgium)
- Creative professions: copyright (Creative Shelter), artist certificate & miscellaneous income
- Does your brand name already exist? (Early Trademark Screening tool)
- Financial plan
- Flat-rate professional expenses as a self-employed person: pros and cons
- Freelancer hourly rate (Creative Shelter)
- From idea to concept (Gentrepreneur – Startium Board)
- General terms & conditions: how to draft them
- Gentrepreneur FAQ
- Information obligations for webshops (FPS Finance FAQ)
- Mandatory e-invoicing (Peppol)
- Pitch guide – Pitch your social innovation
- Setting up a non-profit association (Belgium): step-by-step plan, formalities & cost
- Shareholders’ agreement for your startup
- Social Innovation Atelier (online modules)
- Starting a business (VLAIO)
- SWOT analysis: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities & threats (VLAIO)
- VAT & the small-business exemption
- VLAIO Starter Guide: your guide to success as an entrepreneur
- Zalenzoeker (City of Ghent): finding venues and applying for city venues
Articles in this category.
21 articles
Zalenzoeker (City of Ghent): finding venues and applying for city venues
Zalenzoeker is an online tool from the City of Ghent that helps you quickly find venues in Ghent (city-owned venues and private venues). You can browse freely and view details per…
Read articleSetting up a non-profit association (Belgium): step-by-step plan, formalities & cost
Practical overview of what a non-profit association (vzw/asbl) is, when it makes sense, and the steps to set one up in Belgium: incorporation deed & bylaws, filing and…
Read articleVLAIO Starter Guide: your guide to success as an entrepreneur
Overview page of the VLAIO Starter Guide: an interactive route with exercises, tips, templates and contact points for starters, from idea to administration and finances.
Read articleSWOT analysis: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities & threats (VLAIO)
A SWOT is a simple strategic exercise that combines strengths and weaknesses (internal) with opportunities and threats (external). Using a confrontation matrix, you turn the…
Read articleBusiness Model Canvas (Osterwalder): 9 building blocks + step-by-step guide
Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas helps you sketch your business model in a single overview using 9 building blocks (customers, value, channels, relationships, activities,…
Read articleFinancial plan
What a financial plan is, when it is required (especially for BV/NV/CV in Belgium), and which parts it contains (activity, investment & financing plan, cashflow plan). Includes…
Read articleShareholders’ agreement for your startup
Startium practical structure/template for a shareholders’ agreement (SHA) for Belgian startups: definitions, vesting (4 years, 12-month cliff), good/bad leaver, tag/drag-along,…
Read articleVAT & the small-business exemption
Starter overview of VAT in Belgium: what VAT is, when you are VAT-liable, key obligations under the normal regime and the small-business exemption (< €25,000). Includes practical…
Read articleGeneral terms & conditions: how to draft them
General terms are not legally mandatory but useful if you often work with the same contract conditions. They must be balanced and (especially for B2C) readable and accepted before…
Read articleFrom idea to concept (Gentrepreneur – Startium Board)
Startium board step-by-step plan to move from an idea to a concrete concept, focusing on problem identification, value proposition, validation and building an MVP. It stresses…
Read articleSocial Innovation Atelier (online modules)
Social entrepreneurship tackles societal or ecological challenges and combines impact with a sustainable model. The Social Innovation Atelier provides free online modules to make…
Read articleFreelancer hourly rate (Creative Shelter)
Creative Shelter article (updated 23/04/2026) on how Belgian freelancers can set an hourly/day rate based on costs, net income goals and realistic billable hours. Includes…
Read articleMandatory e-invoicing (Peppol)
From 1 January 2026 Belgian businesses must use structured e-invoices for B2B (PDF is not sufficient), typically via Peppol. VLAIO mentions a tolerance period in the first 3…
Read articleCreative professions: copyright (Creative Shelter), artist certificate & miscellaneous income
Creative Shelter is an invoicing platform that helps creative freelancers handle copyright remuneration correctly so they may keep more net (when applicable). The page also…
Read articleCompany forms & non-profit (Belgium)
Overview of Belgian company forms (partnership, general partnership, limited partnership, BV, NV, CV) and non-profit (vzw): when to choose which form, focusing on liability,…
Read articleStarting a business (VLAIO)
VLAIO’s “Start” page bundles practical information to start well-prepared: preparation, the start-up in 7 steps, formalities after starting and specific situations (secondary…
Read articleGentrepreneur FAQ
Practical FAQ for (student) entrepreneurs: switching legal form, combining student self-employment with a student job, entrepreneurship without an enterprise number, choosing sole…
Read articleInformation obligations for webshops (FPS Finance FAQ)
FPS Economy (Belgium) FAQ summarising key information obligations for e-commerce: which company data must be shown permanently, required info on product pages and in the ordering…
Read articleFlat-rate professional expenses as a self-employed person: pros and cons
Overview of flat-rate professional expenses vs. actual expenses in Belgium: when it can be interesting, key pros/cons and indicative caps (tax years 2025–2026).
Read articleDoes your brand name already exist? (Early Trademark Screening tool)
VLAIO explains a free EUIPO tool (Early Trademark Screening) that helps you estimate trademark risks before registration: descriptiveness, conflicts with similar marks and even…
Read articlePitch guide – Pitch your social innovation
Free pitch guide from Sociale InnovatieFabriek with practical tips and steps to create a strong pitch for a social innovation, including a Pitch Canvas (A3 worksheet). Download is…
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