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Basic cooperation principles

As opposed to other business incubators we do not offer physical desks for accommodation of companies. We offer a set of services that enable a startup to build a successful business. First of all this is an access to experts, educational programs, participation in coaching sessions.
A core figure in a startup is an entrepreneur and he does 99% of work. We provide him with access to knowledge and experience that enables him to perform the actions aimed at building a startup in a most effective way.
Sending us the information request you clearly understand that we may forward it to third parties, such as experts, investors and you are responsible for non-disclosure of information that is considered a trade secret, know-how or any other information that could be sensible.

Goals of Incubator
- Help as much entrepreneurs as possible to get access to knowledge and experience that will enable them to build a successful technological company.
- Help investors to get access to a qualitative flow of projects, decrease their risks by means of thorough selection and preparation of projects.
- Get a minor share in best startups that passed through a complete circle of incubation.

The incubator consists of several structures:

Core Team
A number of people who will work with projects on a daily basis. These specialists will work with projects from the very early stage and facilitate the cooperation with other structures.

Board of Experts
This Board is represented with people who a) can produce a specific value to the projects from the prospective of business development b) spend their own time on this initiative (5 to 10 hours a month plus 2 days per quarter for conducting a session). The spheres where we are going to have experts are: business development, marketing, product development, monetization, positioning, strategy, software development, sales channels, public relations, payments, intellectual property.
The list will be flexible; the members may change every month. And we already have a considerable number of professional volunteers. These people will work with projects on sessions once a quarter.

Investment Committee
The committee will be represented with angels and funds that support us. They will review the projects on early stages and monitor them. All startups will grant them an exclusive right to study the project on the stage when the startup is ready to start the process of fundraising. The startup displays its summary and a presentation to the investment committee and within 2 weeks expects the response whether the project was interesting for the committee.

Only after this period the project is allowed go out to the remaining capital market.
It should be mentioned that this procedure does not mean that you will receive funding from specific investors; this is a temporary time bonus for our investors so that they can think over whether future negotiations regarding investments are possible. These investors should not exceed 10. We are grateful to them as the incubator exists on their means and the services of incubator for most startups will be free of charge.

Investors
This sector will be open for investors who are not ready to support financially but will assure us that they can invest. There is a certain amount of people on the market who claim that they are investors, who do not invest themselves but raise funding for a commission. There are also investors who bring destruction to a company – we will try to avoid these people.

Consulting Board
The Consulting Board will consist of people who have working experience within and with the incubator. They will help us to build processes internally.

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