Startup Elevator

Startup Elevator
September 9 - 15, 2012 @ РЭУ имени Г.В. Плеханова

7 days of intensive hands-on accelerator for IT startups who would like to take their startup to the next level of the ground utilizing StartupMonthly methodology for startup acceleration. Our mentors will work with you on how to scale your business and make it viable for a Russian, US or Global markets. Silicon Valley mentors will provide you with feedback on your progress during daily mentorships sessions and help you define a roadmap for the product development and your business model. At the end of the accelerator, you will present the results at our closed Investor Demo Day to invited investors.

Want to bring Startup Elevator program to your country, send us an email to info@startupmonthly.org

Objectives

Get your startup of the ground by getting daily one on one mentorship by Silicon Valley mentors.
You will perform effective Customer Development, use Lean Startup methodology to build a new Minimal Viable Product, define a roadmap and go to market strategy, launch new MVP for your customers and pitch to get investment during Investor Demo Day.

One on one mentorship

You will be mentored by mentors from Silicon Valley, serial entrepreneurs, domain experts and executives who will provide you with feedback and guidance on your product and business model. We will have 3 hours of one on one mentorship every day.

Milestones

Each day will be a milestone in your journey to a new Minimal Viable Product. You should be ready to work hard between the sessions in order to deliver actionable results.

Topics

Systematic methodology: how to accelerate your business and validate the value of your company's service
How to build a great co-founding team and how to attract "A players" (top players) to your team
Leadership and startup psychology
Effective Customer Development
How to build a Lean and Agile Startup
How to build a Scalable IT startup
Mobile/Web startup User Experience
Traction metrics and how to measure them
Minimal Viable Product (MVP) and roadmap planning
Traction generation and user acquisition strategies
Viral and social marketing techniques
Investors pitch and executive summary

Locations

Адрес:
Москва, Стремянный переулок 36 (главный вход в университет,надпись "РЭУ им. Г.В. Плеханова")

Class Size

Up to 10 carefully selected startups

Registration

Please register * by clicking Apply.
*scholarship may be available from our sponsors and partners

If you are accepted to the Startup Elevator you will have a great chance to get investment from StartupMonthly or our partners at the end of the program.

Agenda

Daily agenda unless otherwise noted.

10:00 - Keynote or training
12:00 - One on One mentorship
15:00 - HW and working on the goals

Sep 8 - Reception and Startup Social

Orientation, reception with the teams and startup social mixer in Moscow center

Sep 9 - Customer Development

Review your Customer Development strategy
Learn how to apply Lean Startup Methodology

Sep 10 - Define New MVP and Improved UX

Analysis of initial Customer Development results
Sketch new Minimum Viable Product improving User Experience of the product

Sep 11 - Product Architecture and Rapid Prototyping

Scalable startup and product architecture
Rapid prototyping techniques and technologies
Hack the new Minimal Viable Product

Sep 12 - Metrics and Traction

Traction metrics and how to analyze them
Incorporate metric collection mechanisms in the solution
Customer acquisition and go to market strategy

Sep 13 - Relaunch and Marketing

Strategies for effectively launching your product
Marketing strategy and Viral Marketing
User acquisition strategies

Sep 14 - Pitch Coaching

Investors pitch presentation best practices
Executive summary structure
Pitch coaching and practice

Sep 15 - Investor Demo Day

Teams will present their products and results to invited investors. Startup Social Party with the community.

You are responsible

7 days of fulltime availability of all the team members during the workshop to work on the new Minimal Viable Product in Moscow - Sep 9-15, 2012
Laptops for all the team members

Accelerator Mentors Team

Silicon Valley and Boston

David Weekly

Serial entrepreneur, founded PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Hacker. Award-winning startup advisor and angel investor

Nathan Gold

Author, speaker, presentation and product demo coach.
Demo coach for the DLA Piper Venture Pipeline Group, Citrix Startup Accelerator, SVForum.org,
Keiretsu Forum Entrepreneur Academy, and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Yuri Rabinovich

Founder and CEO at StartupMonthly, managing partner at MonthlyVentures
entrepreneur, IT researcher, advisor, mentor and coach.

Vadim Slavin

Co-Founder and COO at StartupMonthly, general partner at MonthlyVentures
entrepreneur, rocket scientist, advisor and mentor for early stage startups.

Kevin Doerr

Founder at Archimedes Labs, SVP at Oodle, GM at Microsoft

Sergey Gribov

Managing Partner, Startup Access and Minerva Capital; entrepreneur, advisor and mentor for early stage startups.

Buddy L. Arnheim

Partner at Perkins Coie, Adjunct Professor at University of Illinois - College of Law

Renata Akhunova

Innopolis Representative in Silicon Valley, President at Global Innovation Access

Russia

Igor Matsanyuk

Founder at imi.vc, Farminers, chairman at Game Insight
serial entrepreneur, investor, advisor

Alex Chachava

Founder and President at Leta Group and Leta Group Investment and Venture fund, board member at several companies, serial entrepreneur, investor, advisor

Igor Ryabenkiy

Managing Partner at Altair Capital and Angel investor

Vitaly Polekhin

Managing partner at Venture Angels, board member at QUMO
serial entrepreneur, investor, advisor

Renat Garipov

Co-Founder at Med-start.org, Co-Founder at GreenfieldProject

Michael Tsygankov

Chief Investment Portfolio Officer at The Russian Venture Company

Alexander Dresen

Serial entrepreneur, founder of 50contacts, Zingl (Seedcamp Y11), Advisor Glomper and mentor at multiple russian tech start-ups.

Andrey Albitov

Vice President of Leta Group Holding for international projects, cofounder of Hamstersoft and Baltostorage, investor, mentor, author and promotion of brand in social network coach