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How ITMO's Advance Program is Helping Young Russians Jump Start their Careers
When Anton Manikhin and Ekaterina Korelevich were working in the food industry in St. Petersburg, they had no idea they would soon be chasing their true dreams – those of launching a language school and also an online site similar to Glassdoor. All they needed was to improve their English language skills, learn about entrepreneurship, and acquire some critical computer skills that would give them the tools they needed to start their own business.
21.05.2019
ITMO Graduates Featured in Forbes' 30 Under 30 Ranking
30 Under 30, a new annual ranking by Forbes Russia, has recently been published. Compiled by experts, this is a roll call of young visionaries aged under 30 years old and already enjoying national or international recognition among their professional community. The final shortlist of ten best-of-the-bests includes an ITMO University graduate, founder of the Motorica company Ilya Chekh, while the top-100 touts Artur Gleim, CEO of ITMO’s small innovative enterprise “Quantum Communications”.
22.04.2019
Semantic Hub Founder Vitaly Nedelskiy: 90% of Startups Fail Because Nobody Needs Their Product
The volume of the global robotics and drone market grows with each year, and, according to IDC forecasts, will amount to 210+ billion USD by 2022. Vitaly Nedelskiy, the founder of Semantic Hub and the Russian Association of Robotics, has spoken about the technology market during an open lecture at ITMO University’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations. We spoke with Mr. Nedelskiy to learn what it takes to launch a project in this field, which topics to pay attention to, and why there’s no reason to be afraid of robots taking our jobs.
19.04.2019
Startup Veteran on Beginners’ Common Mistakes: A Founder’s Main KPI is Staying Alive
Steve Korshakov helped make a messenger for VK.com, won competitions set up by Telegram, and worked as a programmer for JetBrains. Yet what he considers his biggest achievement are the projects he developed on his own. Korshakov has founded half a dozen startups and acquired valuable experience through winning, losing, and partnering up with America’s top accelerator Y Combinator. Today, he is the CTO of Openland, a business messenger app. As part of the Expert Week at the Yasnaya Polyana coworking space, Korshakov shared his tips for fledgling entrepreneurs, warned them of the industry’s pitfalls, and explained how one can become partner to the world’s biggest accelerator.
05.04.2019
Business Software: Seminar at Dassault Systèmes Company
Earlier this March, the Future Technologies ITMO Accelerator and ITMO.TECH held a meeting with representatives of Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in the field of 3D development, design, and marketing. Several projects conducted by ITMO University researchers and selected by the jury were presented at the meeting. In the future, some of these projects will be involved in collaboration with Dassault Systèmes and will be able to use the company’s products in their work. In this article, ITMO.NEWS publishes the highlights of the presentation.
28.03.2019
Anton Gopka, General Partner of ATEM Capital Becomes Dean of Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations
Anton Gopka, general partner and co-founder of ATEM Capital, has become Dean of the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations. In the past years, he’s completed a whole series of hi-tech projects, was a managing partner of Russia’s biggest fund in the field of Life Sciences and worked with hundreds of startups in the USA, Western Europe and Russia. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, he spoke about business, his plans as a new dean, his perception of an ecosystem for technological entrepreneurship and the features that Russian startups are currently lacking.
15.03.2019
Lectures on International Business and a Medieval Feast: ITMO Master's Student on the Winter School at the Prague University of Finance and Administration
Roman Evstigneev is a Master's student from the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations who recently spent ten days at a winter school on international business at the Czech Republic's largest private university. The student spoke to ITMO.NEWS about the winter school, its academic benefits, and how to apply for internship funding as an ITMO student.
20.02.2019
24-Year Old Millionaire on Cryptocurrency and Personal Development
ITMO University graduate Sergey Khitrov launched his first business when he was a first-year Bachelor’s student and earned his first million rubles at the age of 19. Now he organizes major international conferences on cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies and works on several projects. Among them is Listing.Help, a company that helps other companies make it to big cryptocurrency exchanges. Over the last year and a half, the company has promoted more than 400 ICO projects. In this interview with ITMO.NEWS, Sergey Khitrov talks about the future of blockchain technologies and the latest trends in the field of cryptocurrency.
18.01.2019
Nights in a Library, History Lessons and Stress Relieving Dogs: Academic Exchange at Seoul National University
Eduard Kamalov, a student at ITMO's Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations, spent his fifth semester at Seoul National University (South Korea) on an exchange program. Eduard told ITMO.NEWS about the operation of South Korea's largest university and why studying there is a great experience for any student, how much money one has to take with them, and why they have to be ready for particular manifestations of nationalism, spicy food and history lessons.
18.01.2019
Andrei Maiboroda, Writer and Entrepreneur: If You Work a Lot, You Are Destined to Succeed
In the modern world, more and more people start thinking about their destiny and want to focus on something that makes them happy. One of the ways of doing that is to open one's own business. Andrei Maiboroda, a business coach, the owner of the Green Business company and a lecturer at ITMO's Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations, dedicated a book to this topic. ITMO.NEWS spoke to him to learn about the qualities one needs to be successful in business.
18.12.2018