start up picnic journey eng

Our Journey:

Start-up Picnic | Purpose & Principles:

• to build competencies and confidence for successfulentrepreneurship to live value-based business

• to share knowledge around our key questions.

*Trust* *Confidentiality* *Having fun*

*Curiosity* *Give-give-give* *Cultural respect*

*Open minds* *Open hearts*

* Constructive Communication* *Generate vs Consume*

We invited:• Bliss Browne, President of Imagine Chicago, USA.

• Stine Arensbach Szlavik, Co-partner of the Bigger Picture, Denmark.

• Eleanor Whitley, Head of the hosting team at Hub Kings Cross, United Kingdom.

• We also were blessed to get support from:

– Ole Qvist-Sørensen, founder of the Bigger Picture; – Jonathan Robinson, co-founder of the Hub London; – Maria Scordialos and Sarah Whiteley, co-founders of the Axladitsa-

Avatakia Learning Center in Greece; – Toke Moeller, master practitioner from the Art of Hosting Global

Community and InterChange.

Start-up Picnic | Guests:

And after regular skype-calls with international friends, weekly meetings with the team,we gathered in Kyiv 2 days before the event to design Start-up Picnic. The process was fun. It was learning entrepreneurial journey for all of us.

Profile of 50+ Participants

Start-up Picnic | Participants Profile:

Spheres Key Challenges to Resolve

IT 39% Business development 31%

Education 14% Self-realization 17%

Entertainment 11% Teamwork 17%

FMCG 3% Sales 8%

Décor/construction 6% Finance/investments 8%

Communications 6% Marketing 6%

Real Estate 6% HR 6%

TBD 6%

Cities: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Vynnytsya, Zaporizhzhya, Lviv, Moscow, Volgograd

Start-up Picnic | Flow of 3 Days:

DAY 3DAY 2

DAY 1

Understand

Imagine

Create

Based on the Appreciative Inquiry Formula

Start-up Picnic | Flow of 3 Days (Cont.):

DAY 1:

• A. 10:00 to 11:45– Introductions and agenda

setting • B. 12:00 to 13:45

– Knowledge Mapping • C. 15:00 to 16:30

– Appreciative Inquiry Training & Practice

• D. 16:45 to 18:00– Visual Language Training &

Practice• 19:30 Secrets of Kyiv Walking

Tour

Start-up Picnic | Flow of 3 Days (Cont.):DAY 3:

• A. 10:00 to 11:45– Learning Accelerator and

Reflections – Wisdom panel: “What I wish I knew

when I getting started?”, Q&A• B.12:00 to 13:45

– Open Space Round 2, projects & action groups

• C.15:00 to 16:30– Action Planning – Visual Journey of 3 days

• D. 16:30 to 17:00– Closing Evaluation

DAY 2:

• A. 10:00 to 11:45– Vision and value-based business

design – Metaphors of the Mother and

Organic Farming (Creative Loneliness, care for the Land, & the blueprint)

• B.12:00 to 13:45– Strategic communications (effective

story-telling, media strategies and pitching).

– A story of the Hub• C.15:00 to 16:30

– Imagine Exercise & Collective Intelligence Game

• D. 16:45 to 18:00– Open Space Hosting and

Convening of Round 1 discussion groups

• 19:00 Open Doors Picnic

Final touches …

… before start

Rainbow of ideas

As entrepreneur, think from the Bigger

Picture

Visualizing the dream or hope

Btw, what is YOUR shape of a dream or

hope?

Drum groove, improvisation by

Walentine (center) & Co.

Qs for Personal Learning Journal

What are the questions or key challenges that you

brought here?

That’s how “knowledge mapping” looks like

Creative loneliness is your companion in

giving birth to a child, or new idea, project or

new business

Organic farming – is when you harvest fruits, and don’t spoil the soil, but keep it productive

for many years

Visual Language tells more than

words

Generating collective intelligence &

accelerating learning

Step 1, 2, 3 – into the Future. Imagine

yourself, and go for it!

It’s not a minor thing in biz, think again!

Hey, let’s go into the Open Space, huh?

How do we express the vision for our business in a way

which attracts investments by

others? – by Stine

Bliss Browne from Imagine Chicago

Eleanor Whitley from the Hub Kings Cross

Open Space Sessions on Topics that bring on

Passion & Responsibility

Open Doors Picnic.

A great opportunity for informal networking and

communication.

Briefly: Three Days on One Slide

Start-up Picnic | Participants’ Feedback:“What have you got from Start-up Picnic?”

I got support of advanced, creative

entrepreneurial people of Kyiv (Ukraine)

“I’ve got inspiration to start my own business”

“I’ve got stronger faith in

myself”

“I’ve set the network of talented new

friends”

“I take away enormous change inside (you were

my catalyst)”

“Now I envision my future and see greater

responsibility for my actions today”

“I realized there were wonderful people in

Ukraine who’re able to push

economics and improve life in this country.”

Start-up Picnic | Hub Kyiv Team:

Olga Romanyuk: To hold the Start-up Picnic was a tremendous inspiration for ourselves -we're on the right path! I hope we properly

delivered the idea of "livingvalue-based business" to those, who were

truly in search of it. And we willsurely see each other in the future again!

Yuliya Filippovska: We were totally inspired to make something new, which hadn’t been done before. It made all the difference, and it was a big challenge. It was a good chance to learn together and get entrepreneurial experience when you try to sell the value of your idea to your future participants for 120 USD before

the event, when it’s only in your imagination. This is the beautiful load

that entrepreneurs carry when they bring in innovations. And it was fun!

Start-up Picnic | Hub Kyiv Team (Cont.):

Anna Smyrnova: Start-up Picnic was the first such experience for Hub Kyiv in realization of the Hub idea in

Ukraine. We really wished that these three days help entrepreneurs realize their potential and feel support in the implementation of their ideas and pursuits, We tried to share with you our experience, ideas and inspiration but it appeared that we got great inspiration and ideas from you that we are really grateful for. Owing to the

Picnic we got new supply of energy to realize our ideas and we really hope to have a chance to share our

progress with you.

Viktoriya Dzyuba: What amazed me about the Hub-Kyiv's Start-Up Picnic was how the

efforts of many people, greatly dispersed geographically, culminated

in the event that benefited a multitude of experienced and would-be

entrepreneurs in Ukraine. And all of this on a shoe-string budget! It

is possible to work on enthusiasm then!

Start-up Picnic | Our thanks:

We are grateful for support from:ALL ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS & also:

– Aleksandr Lyadov, Dekarta Capital– Denis Dovgopolyi, BayView Innovations & Investors’ Day – Yuri Boyko, Silicon Valley, CA – Andrey Fedorov, «Люди» & «Сахар»– Volodymyr Vorobey, PPV Knowledge Networks– Arseniy Finberg, Interesniy Kyiv – Anna Iurchenko (wall-photo)– Dmitriy Vandenko (photo)– Sergey Fedoryk (photo)– Natalka Moroz (full-time mom)– Roman Makukhin (MOA Ukraine, organic farming) – Ivan Prokopenko (photo, support, fun)

Start-up Picnic | Conclusions:

*Hub Kyiv is:

• Network of innovative and socially active entrepreneurs with ideas and businesses for more than profit.

• Space to meet, learn, exchange ideas, knowledge and tools, investigate opportunities, make things happen, and have fun.

• Movement to see the best of Ukraine, and bring more innovative good here, with working business models.

Start-up Picnic laid the ground for the Hub Kyiv*

Start-up Picnic | Conclusions (Cont.):

Hub Kyiv Next Steps:• Invite people to join our Hub Kyiv team

• Hold monthly or bi-monthly interactive meetings on topics and questions that matter most – to share knowledge and experience, to strengthen the network, and get inspired

• Invite interesting people/friends from Ukraine, CIS, and from abroad

• Partner with great entrepreneurial projects & initiatives in Ukraine and CIS – to bring it all forward

• Bring the vision of the Hub Kyiv into reality

Please, keep an eye on our news, and invitations that are coming soon!

Start-up Picnic | Join us:

How could you become part of Hub Kyiv?

There are three circles of involvement:

Core Team

Members

Contributors

To learn more, please contact us

Start-up Picnic | Links, Resources, Contacts:Photos:• http://picasaweb.google.com/hubinua/StartUpPicnic• http://picasaweb.google.com/pavel.bashmakov/Startuppicnic2009• http://picasaweb.google.com/hubinua/StartUpPicnicIvanProkopenkoSPics

Materials:• Hub Story (see attached)• Hub Mentality (see attached)• Appreciative Inquiry Questions on Partnership and New Hires (shared by Bliss Browne)

Our contacts: • http://hub.in.ua/• http://blog.hub.in.ua/• picnic@hub.in.ua• http://twitter.com/hubkyiv

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