Russian entrepreneurs invited to a TechVenture SmartUp business course

Russian entrepreneurs invited to a TechVenture SmartUp business courseANO Modernization and the Global Innovation Access Company announce accepting applications for a business accelerator program designed to develop entrepreneurial skills of innovative companies’ managers. The FastTrack TechVenture SmartUp program is developed by Kauffman Foundation and adapted specifically for Russian entrepreneurs and business teams working with innovative projects.

FastTrack TechVenture SmartUp is not only a two-week business course and business trip to the USA, but it is also an intensive practical work with the trainers, mentors and experts, focused on building an effective company business model and developing competencies of its managers to create an innovative product really needed in the market (business modeling and product development). It is the system under which the most successful business incubators in Silicon Valley work.

During the program, conducted in California (USA), the participants will be offered a very diverse set of activities:

• Working Studios: the trainers are the businessmen, actively advising start-ups;

• Individual practical work: each participant will create his own knowledge base using suitable tools, and after each class will receive an obligatory task allowing to draw up individual rating;

• Nothing Is Impossible design team (niiworld) will develop a design presentation of the projects in the actual stylistic trend of Silicon Valley for program participants who received the highest rating according to the contest results;

• A set of tools for work: the best iPad applications to control the startup, the set of the best books in Silicon Valley;

• Practical work in the group: the other program participants will be your first focus group to improve the product;

• Business Games: Anti-problem and The context map games built on the latest practices for the development of creative thinking;

• Training: Building a business model under Osterwalder (Business Model Canvas) and presenting the project to the venture investor;

• Networking: attending some of the many regular receptions and seminars of Silicon Valley to establish useful contacts;

• attending lectures at Stanford and other Silicon Valley universities: public lectures (depending on schedule) and a tour of the campus;

• Guest visits to the world’s leading innovative companies’ offices: the host country is determined by the group composition, but it is always a rating company;

• presentations to the potential investors: investors are determined depending on the industries represented by the program participants,

• meetings with the successful entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley: meetings with representatives of companies that are on everyone's lips, or working in the same industry as the program participants,

• attending key events of Silicon Valley: the leading conferences and expo-forums in accordance with the event calendar,

• consulting with the experts in international business organizing: practicing experts are to work with a group in the fields of business registration, company operations management, financial management, protection and commercialization of intellectual property, investment transactions maintenance and promotion in social media;

• individual consultations with experts in the field of project: an expert in the proper industry and field of activity is recruited for each program participant,

• entertainment program: flying over Silicon Valley, tours to the Golden Gate, and in Napa Valley, a Saturday night in San Francisco, etc.

Participation in the program is primarily recommended to the product developers (creators), regardless of position in the company, as well as the main managers of the company, regardless of whether they are the founders, who will implement the business model.

For more information address to startup@i-russia.ru





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