A conference Business Launch 2012 for startups in St. Petersburg

Vedomosti newspaper and exhibition company Exhibition Port open a project on the effective interaction between startups and investors. A variety of companies that have achieved success and recognition in the business community and are willing to share their knowledge and experience will be presented at the Business Start 2012 exhibition in St. Petersburg on September, 19.

A large number of participants and representatives of various organizations will provide a unique opportunity to establish business contacts and get a piece of advice and counseling. The audience of the project is beginning entrepreneurs, startups, business angels, investors, business incubators, government agencies to support small businesses.

A workshop on Startup: how to get attention and money will take place within the exhibition, during which experts will tell how to set up a business, what is needed for it, where to get the initial capital and a loan. The exhibition will bring together legal, accounting and consulting firms, government representatives, banks and lending institutions, venture capital funds and others.

Topics for discussion:
- Experience in launching a project on an untested idea
- How to make an entirely new service or product habitual within shortest term?
- Corporate culture from scratch: go and build
- How to create an image of a promising start-up you can trust, when the project is still in the sandbox, if the company does not have high-profile investors and executives?
- Search for investors for a non-technological startup
- Formation of franchise start-ups
- A workshop on Presentation Skills