3. Venture Market in Ukraine makes its first steps - No VC fund in Ukraine - No Entrepreneurial Culture - No success stories - No IP protection culture - No angels - A gap between R&D and the Market BUT - Highly educated population and R&D potential
4. 3 year perspective in numbers (our point of view) - 1000 engineers, understand market needs - 500 entrepreneurs familiar with VC rules - 50 angels (50-250K USD) - 7-10 consulting companies - 3-4 local VC seed funds - 1-2 global VC funds representative offices - 50-100 new startups per year - strong connections with American and European VC community
5. We need to excite peoples. How to do it? There are 3 ways.
6. 1. Silicon Valley Best Practice. Kiev Master Classes - Yuri Boyko (Palo Alto, CA, USA) - Ratmir Timashev , ABRTFund (Moscow, Russia) - Anna Dvornikova , AmBAR, SVOD, Entana corp (Menlo Park, CA, USA) - David Waroquier , Mangrove Capital Partners (Luxemburg) - Natasha Krol , Alexander &Krol (Bulingham, CA, USA) - will be tomorrow And we are planning to provide next 20 events till the end of 2008