Educational program of professional development "School of the venture investor"

Educational program of professional development

«School of the venture investor»

Educational program of profESSional dEvElopmEnt «School of thE vEnturE invEStor»

RSPP Business school was founded in May 2013 with intent to fulfil the target of providing up to date education. Fundamental change of the business environment today requires new unconventional approach

to the managerial policies. RSPP Business School integrates the best experience in the area of current business practical activities and extensively introduces it in the content of its educational programs.

RSPP Business school offers EMBA programs, professional development programs which are principally aimed at actual entrepreneurs looking for an opportunity to develop their managerial and professional skills, review the current business model of their company, to work out and implement a more effective strategy of business development.

«Practical training for practical men» is the motto of the RSPP Business school and stands for an outstanding amount of workshop sessions and trainings held by the leading experts and industry leaders’ spokesmen, business trips to the facilities in Russia and abroad, dedication to specific business targets in the course of training.

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Agency of serial business LLC, resident of the SKOLKOVO business incubator, develops educational and practical programs for acceleration of small business and startups, including the ones of the social sphere. Strategic partners of Agency of serial business are RSPP Business School, Enterprise community «Skolkovo», the International academy of business and others. At the end of 2013 the agency carried out the successful pilot draft of the comprehensive

acceleration program «School of the Serial Businessman» on the basis of the International academy of business in Moscow which resulted in eight startup projects in such areas as social business, information technologies, educational consulting, coaching and others.


• You are interested in investment into a startup projects at early stages

• You want to become the «Angel» investor and to choose a startup by yourself

• You look for partners for co-investment in a startup projects

• You want to find investors in your own project

• You want to work in venture investment funds

It Is the program for you, If you


Day 1: «Bases of the venture budgeting»

Day 2: «Choosing a project for venture budgeting»

Day 3: «Work with venture projects»

Day 4: Project express assessment (Practical study)

You wiLL know hOW thE VEntuRE BudgEtIng IS ORgAnIzEd In RuSSIA

You wiLL LeARn tO ChOOSE And EStIMAtE thE VEntuRE PROjECtS On YOuR OWn

You wiLL Be ABLe tO FInd A PARtnER FOR InVEStIng thE PROjECtS

You wiLL unDeRStAnD hOW It WORKS!

practIcal studIes for 6 classroom hours each


1. whAt iS ventuRe BuDgeting

• goals and aim of venture budgeting

• history of venture business

• Venture and direct investments

2. CAtegoRieS of ventuRe inveStoRS

• Private investors, business angels

• Institutional investors: mutual and venture funds

• Venture investor: hobby and a profession

3. inveStment PRoCeSS

• Project and project company as a possible object of investing

• Stages of the project lifecycle (technological, marketing, financial) and their content from the investor’s point of view

• general principles of the transaction: investment, co-investment, private-public partnership

• Investor’s exit strategies

day 1. Bases of the venture BudgetIng


1 . SeLeCtion CRiteRiA of PRojeCtS foR inveStment

• Investment focus: in what projects and companies to invest

• Branch of industry criteria

• Business criteria

• the criteria connected with the founders and team of the project

2 . PRoCeDuRe of SeLeCtion of ventuRe PRojeCtS

• Private investors and funds: distinctions in approach

• Primary selection (screening, filtering)

• Monitoring of the selected projects

3 . ASSeSSment of the ventuRe PRojeCt

• Ways of an assessment

• Complex assessment (due diligence), adaptation for the venture market

• Making decision on investment: including the project in a portfolio

day 2. choosIng a project for ventureBudgetIng


day 3. WorkIng WIth venture projects1. whY it iS neCeSSARY

• Features of projects at early stages

• Specifics of the Russian technological projects

• Standard requirements of the investor to portfolio projects, companies

2 . moDeRn APPRoACheS to PRojeCt SuPPoRt

• Acceleration, incubation, mentoring, «clever money»

• Key factors of success in the venture market

• Acceleration program «Accessor»

3 . LegAL SuPPoRt of the PRojeCt entRY tRAnSACtion

• Agreement on nondisclosure (ndA)

• Agreement on the main conditions (term Sheet)

• tools of the investor: purchase of shares, convertible loan


day 4. project eXpress assessment (practical study)1 . the exPReSS ASSeSSment – keY StAge of the inveStment DeCiSion-mAking

• Purpose of carrying out express assessment

• Methods of carrying out express assessment

• documenting of results

• Making decision on investment on the basis of an express assessment

2 . mAking PRojeCt exPReSS ASSeSSment in gRouPS ACCoRDing to the PLAn:

• history of the project, expectation of founders

• technology, novelty, intellectual property

• Product: market, positioning, advance, business model

• team: roles, competences, loyalty

• Investments: offer to the investor, model of an exit of the investor

3. the AnALYSiS of the PRojeCt ASSeSSment

• discussion of the received results

• Carrying out SWOt analysis


LuDmiLA goLuBkovA Managing partner of the venture fund Starta Capital

Professional experience

• More than 20 years in managing offices in Russian and international companies in different branches

• 13 years in venture branch

education

• MBA (London Metropolitan university, 2004)

• Marketing course (Oxford university, 1996-98)

• graduated from the Moscow state linguistic university in 1985

practIcal study teacher


ALexeY giRin Managing partner of the Starta Capital Accessor fund, General

director if the Starta Capital investment company.

More than 15 year experience in audit and finance, 10 year of experience in venture as fundraiser and investor at

initial stages of the project. Attracted investments to

seven companies to the total amount of 30 million uS

dollars.

SeRgeY ShARenkovGeneral director of the Innovation

and technology center of MATI (Russian state technological university

named after Tsyolkovsky). MAtI graduate, Ph. d in economic science. From 2003 has worked in

financial and investment consulting, innovation technologies, financial

engineering and investment projects structuring. From 2010 is mentor

of the Innovation and venture investment committee of the Moscow

Businessmen Association.

egoR egeRevFounder and General

director of Oblako biletov LLC,

a venture project aimed to create b2b sire

for event organizers. has the experience in organization of

mass events for the auditoriums of 10-

15 thousand people. Successful Russian startup manager.

guest speakers of the program

ContACtS:

Educational program of profEssional dEvElopmEnt «School of thE vEnturE invEStor»

juLIA RAKOVAgeneral director + 7 (968) 681 48 [email protected]

OLgA KOChEtKOVA External relations director + 7 (985) 222 01 [email protected]

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