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SKOLKOVO Startup Academy is a smart accelerator, a new kind of entrepreneurship programme that fuses the best of practical education with world-class business acceleration, and gives you and your idea everything needed to reach entrepreneurial success.

Language: English/Russian (Simultaneous translation provided, educational materials are available both in English and Russian)

Duration: 10 weeks, including 2 weeks in Silicon Valley, USA. Education in Moscow is conducted in the evenings (2 times per week) and on weekends. Personal meetings with business coaches and mentors are conducted in convenient time.

Dates of the programme: 11 April 2013 – 17 June 2013 28 May 2013 – 12 June 2013 Trip to Silicon Valley, USA

Place of study: Campus SKOLKOVO, PWC office (Belorusskaya metro station) and Silicon Valley (USA)

Cost of the programme: 13,500 Euros excluding flights and accommodation expenses in Silicon Valley (student loan programmes are available)

Group size: 30 people

Diploma: SKOLKOVO DiPLOmA

Bob Dorf Serial entrepreneur, coauthor of “Startup owners manual”

Steve Blank Startup Guru, Silicon Valley serial-entrepreneur

Alex Friedland Managing Director, SOROS Fund Management

Shomit Ghose Partner at Onset Ventures

John (Grizz) Deal CEO, Purple Mtn. Ventures

Thomas Gad CEO, BrandFlight

Val Jerdes Partner, Innov8 Global Ventures

Yossi Turkaspa Partner, M & M Venezia

STUDENT'S PROFiLE WHO NEEDS STARTUP ACADEmY?

LEADiNG iNTERNATiONAL PROFESSORS AND mENTORS

• Corporate managers who want to start their own company

• Entrepreneurs with a business idea who need help to put it together, develop a business model, receive financing and launch a startup

• Startups who want to test their ideas and make sure they are on the right track

• Business Angels who want to build their expertise and learn to make smart investments

• Family business inheritors who want to bring their business to a new level

Peter Lindholm Managing Director, JSC «ValoDia»

Fadi Bishara Founder and CEO, Blackbox

Stan Yakatan Chairman and founder, Katan Associates

Gaidar magdanurov Web-projects manager, Microsoft

Lawrence Wright Professor of Practice, SKOLKOVO Startup Academy Director

Oskar Hartmann Founder and CEO, KupiVIP.ru

Alexey Kharitontsev Director of Legal and Corporate Development

Gary Fowler CEO, Fowler Int’l

PROGRAmmE STRUCTURE*:

* The school has the right to change the programme

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10

BUSINESS MODEL GENERATIONCUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT

SALES AND MARKETING

FINANCIALS OF START-UPS

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND WEB-TOOLS

LAW AND BRANDING

TEAM-BUILDING STARTUP MANAGEMENTPITCHING TO INVESTORS

MONETISATION MODELS NEGOTIATIONS

STUDYING THE EXPERIENCE OF SILICON VALLEY STARTUPS AND EMERSION INTO THE ECOSYSTEM

RAISING CAPITAL, NETWORKING

PROJECT LAUNCH PREPARATION/ INVESTOR'S DAY

Silicon Valley

Andrey Shelomentsev

"SKOLKOVO is forever. SKOLKOVO Startup Academy opened

the doors to the world of new possibilities.

Startup Academy programme is for those who want to get a

rapid turn of mindset and skills, to obtain priceless network

of contacts and immerse into the entrepreneurial business

atmosphere of ideas, enthusiasm and achievements. The only

downside is that it is impossible to go back to your normal

life."

Alexander Svinin

"For me, as a person who had never been in business before,

Startup Academy was first and foremost the place where I

got the facts about how, when, and where to build my own

business, how to grow it, structure it, and launch to market.

A second important point is the community of students. We

became a better, stronger team, supporting each other even

after graduation. And that helps us reach our goals.”

i WANT TO BECOmE A PARTiCiPANT OF THE PROGRAmmE. mY NEXT STEP:

1. Submit an on-line application form and a CV on www.skolkovo.ru/ssa

2. Pay the application fee of 50 Euros on-line

3. Go to the interview with the Startup Academy team member

ACCELERATE YOUR BUSiNESS!

Campus SKOLKOVO: Novaya ul. 100, Skolkovo village, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Region, 143025, RussiaPhone: +7 495 539 30 03 • Fax: +7 495 994 46 68 • info@skolkovo.ru • www.skolkovo.ru

LEARN mORE FROm THE PROGRAmmE mANAGER:

MADINA TYURYAEVA +7 495 539 30 03, ext. 2701 +7 919 777 25 16

startup_academy@skolkovo.ru

Vladimir Kovalskiy

"Startup Academy is a very good theory and practice hybrid of

building a business. Businesses that operate in current markets.

An extensive network of SKOLKOVO mentors can link together

the best practices of building a startup with real projects of each

student. Regardless of the projects’ stage - each member of the

Academy gets a powerful boost and a clear road map for further

development. If you are consider joining the programme, then

my advice to you - "Just jump into it!" You will not regret it!"

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Ivan Pisarev

‘’After just 2 months in the programme, the life has changed

radically. The pace has picked up considerably. It really feels

as if an entire year has elapsed during those 2 months. I can't

believe that June 1 was even this year, and now it's August 1.

There was an amazing amount of information to absorb. I am

very glad that I now have the knowledge that Startup Academy

gave me. It's scary to think what I would have endured or

where my project would have ended up without Startup

Academy. Startup Academy in a word is fun, tons of contacts,

innovation, drive.’’

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