This seminar was organized by Minerva Capital Partners LLC with the support of the Russian Venture Company’s Seed Investment Fund LLC, the Energy Efficiency Cluster of the fund for the development of the Skolkovo innovation center and the non-commercial organization "Pre-seed Investment Fund". Receiving grants from the Skolkovo Fund for the development of innovative projects: What preferences does the Skolkovo center offer to innovative companies? The stages of projects, the volume of grants and the formal procedure for receiving them; Receiving a grant "In Practice" (Oleg Giyazov, founder of the Reactive Reactification Technology startup, resident of    

On November 7, 2011, Saint Petersburg will host a practical seminar entitled "Investment at the Pre-seed stage." The organizers of this event were the non-commercial organization "the Pre-seed investment Fund" of Saint Petersburg and the "Ingria" Business Incubator. Speaker: Mikhail Rayak, executive director of the Pre-seed Investment Fund. The following questions will be discussed at the seminar: The goals and tasks of the Pre-seed Investment Fund, the investment elevator in the investment ecosystem of Saint Petersburg; Volume and instruments of investment; Criteria for selecting companies/projects; The investment process: What should be at the center of one’s    

The DOK and RubicPro companies residents of the "Ingria" Business Incubator have been recognized at the very best at the Russian Venture Fair The DOK company received the Gold diploma in the "Promising Business" category, and RubicPro was recognized by the fair’s judging commission as the company that made the best presentation. The 12th Russian Venture Fair was held in Saint Petersburg from November 23-24. In all, 37 companies presented their projects, four of which we presented by the "Ingria" Business Incubator. Aside from the two winners, this included ELama and Xmas Ventures. It should be noted that the winners at the Fair were selected by a commission of judges, consisting of    

On November 23, we invite all residents and employees of the "Ingria" to Happy-Hour-Restarted, a meeting that will take on the absolutely new format of a social/business game! This event is for the residents and employees of "Ingria." The new format consists of: A new meeting place for the intellectuals our institution is here to promote (that is, for you) Engaging, original relaxation; you won’t be bored for one minute Business games and contests, competitions that test communication and self-presentation skills A chance to get reacquainted with the other residents of Ingria and meet new friends, partners and clients in a light-heated    

November 21, 2011, the "Ingria" Business Incubator invites you to a meeting to be held on Monday as part of the Open Days program, entitled "The reasons for the failures and reversals of startups in Russia". Successful projects attract all of the attention of the press and society as a whole, while frustrated companies’ failed attempts simply pass by unnoticed. All of this creates the illusion of continuous success. If we look at the time spent by entrepreneurs, and they look like a totally different class of people compared with rank and file employees of successful corporations, then they spend a large portion of their time and energy not on enjoying success, but on making sense of    

The Russian Venture Fair is returning to Saint Petersburg in November of 2011 after a two-year break. More than 200 investors, managers of direct investment funds, venture capitalists, investment bankers, lawyers and consultants will once again gather to discuss and try to answer the most timely questions related to the development of the Russian direct and venture investment industry. Today, this Fair is a platform for discussion and exchange of experience between investment business professionals, a group of like-minded people, in a way, united by one goal, encouraging the development of Russia’s financial future.   AS of now, the following well-known figures have confirmed    

November 19, (10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.) Microsoft and the Ingria business incubator invite all the students of the institutions of higher learning in Saint Petersburg (and beyond) to visit the one-day Windows Phone 7 Student Camp. During that day, you will: learn a lot of new thing about the mobile applications market; learn to develop your own telephone applications and games; you can develop your first application, try it out on a real piece of equipment, and even upload it to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace and start to earn money from it; learn about the Windows Phone 7, which only just went on sale in Russia. We will describe various earning    

On Monday, November 2, 2011, the Ingria business incubator invites you to a meeting as part of the Open Days Ingria program dedicated to the topic of "Team Building and Leadership". Led by – Yevgenia Barchenko, Consultant/Expert at the Ingria business incubator. We all know how important the role of the manager is for a new company. It is not simply that of a manager and specialist in his field; but also of the idea-generator and motivator of the entire team. While they are founding their businesses, many entrepreneurs often have no idea what they will heave to deal with at each stage of the growth and development of their companies. In our training, we have tried to make that    

On November 1, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., we invite you to the online stream of an event from the "Microsoft Solutions Academy" series in Petersburg, at http://www.itmozg.ru/online/. The goal of the Microsoft Solutions Academy is to demonstrate opportunities and scenarios for the application of Microsoft technology, both from an IT perspective, and in terms of demand for them from business. This event is being held with the organizational support of the Ingria business incubator. Program: 09:30 - 10:00 a.m. Registration 10:00 - 10:20 a.m. MS SQL Server. Development history. An overview of the product. Maxim Bocharov (Microsoft) 10:20 -    

On Wednesday, November 2, 2011, the Ingria business incubator invites you to a meeting as part of the Open Days program, dedicated to the topic: "We got some talented people together… What should we do now? How can we work successfully?" Led by Eleonora Yakimenko, human resources director of the Bercut Ltd. Company. This meeting will be dedicated to the question of forming a team. During the event, the following questions will be investigated: Why is teamwork necessary? What happens between people when they work together? What are the stages of team formation? What are the roles of people on a team? Why do some teams get through difficulties while others fall