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• “YellowRockets:” How Russian Startupers Enter Global Markets

  In 2014, YellowRockets  (the previous name StartupSamara) was a small community with rare meetings – now it is a large accelerator, which already attracted over 600 million rub for startups and entered different international markets. According to the accelerator’s head Sergei Bogdanov, its main achievement is that more and more young entrepreneurs are interested in this activity. 

  18.04.2017

• From Idea to Business in Eight Weeks: The Second Session of ITMO 3.0 Reload

  About half a year ago, ITMO's student Malika Abdullaeva decided to replace protein cocktails with ice-cream that’s stripped from everything sportsmen avoid while "shredding" - fats, sugar and the like. The idea was suggested by her friend, who worked as a fitness instructor, and with help from ITMO 3.0 Reload, Malika succeeded in bringing the project to the point of actually having the end product. In just several months, her team Pro&Ice has not only perfected the recipe, but also brought it to the minimum viable product stage and even pitched their project in Finland, and is now getting ready to receive their first investment. Yet, there is more to come, believes Konstantin Peresh, ITMO 3.0's coordinator. On March, 29th, ITMO 3.0's second season starts, and several tens more students will get the opportunity to work with the university's technologies, study the market and make their first steps to launching their own businesses. In an interview to ITMO.NEWS, he shared about the project's details.

  17.03.2017

• Soft Skills for Engineers: Students Presented Solutions for Real-Life Business Cases

  The participants of the First Grant Competition Contest presented their solutions for real industrial tasks offered by companies of the Joint-Stock Financial Corporation "Sistema."

  16.03.2017

• Good Product: One-Click Food by Young Entrepreneurs

  Oleg Novikov and Mikhail Kozlov, residents of Future Technologies accelerator, talked about their unique project of food delivery service, which allows to forget about staying in lines at supermarkets and makes farm food more affordable.

  20.02.2017

• How to Make an Ideal Pitch and Win the Investor: Lessons and Tips from the Saint-Startup Forum

  How can a first year student create his first serious business, or persuade an investor in just 4 minutes? These and many more questions were answered at the Saint-Startup Forum last Saturday at ITMO University. The event included business games, quests, meeting with investors, an "ideal pitch session" and the final battle of startups — not to speak of life-hacks, unique success cases, and many advices from the market's experts.

  20.02.2017

• Entrepreneurship as Profession: Troitsky "Technopark" Opens Russia’s First Entrepreneurial Club

  Building a successful high-technology company can be the task of a lifetime. Can one possibly understand whether he’s up to it, and in several hours, at that? Yes, believes Denis Kovalivich, stockholder and CEO of the Troitsky "Technopark" nanocenter. In an interview to ITMO.NEWS, he shared about their new project — Russia's first inter-university venture creation nanocenter.

  16.02.2017

• Combining Studying, Work and Business — Alexandr Golovatiy Shares on His Surprise Me Project

  How to start a business if you have no startup capital but just an idea? How to create a good team and find an individual approach to everyone? How to work on two projects at the same time? Alexander Golovatiy, head of the ITMO.STORE project, shares on how his Surprise Me quest service was made from scratch.

  18.11.2016