Founder council town hall, Kiev. with Adeo Ressi
- Challenges
- Confidence
- Competence
- international market understanding
- risk of success
- * Teams to invest in
- * Cofounder for a company
- Lack of seed money / contry
- lack of business experience
- lack of mentors
- outsourcing stealing developers
- * lack of domestic market
- russia hard
- us is same way hard
- geopolitical positioning = 50/50 (corruption)
- * missing large companies (underdeveloped)
- team won't work for equity
- Opportunities
- Programming talent
- Accelerators / Incubators
- Deal flow (early stage)
- Open mind to western world (eu)
- Ukraine is a good entry point to Russian market
- Low costs (besides developers)
- successful Ukrainians (international access)
- fast growing domestic market
- ability to clone
- quality / price
- open minded / culture
- enough pre-seed capital
- * infrastructure / logistics
- grey market opportunities
- * lack of startups / competition
- commercializing
- Needs - numbers show the order of importance
- 2) seed capital organization
- 5) media
- training programs
- 4) less corruption
- favourable corporate law
- 6) success stories
- ukrainian startups
- ukrainian founders
- lower brain drain
- 3) eliminate fear of failure
- 1) professional networking - startups anonymous
- more events - startup weekend
- 0) international coverage
- Ideas
- identify ongoing leaders
- set-up communication infrastructure
- Goals
- Encourage sponsorship
- Attract global mentors
- Attract investors
- Add world-class programs
- Coordinate dates
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