VIRTUAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

LAB

A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR ENTREPRENEURS

AIM OF THE PLATFORM

To create a a fast,easily accessible,social media(facebook) like platform for all the entrepreneurs,for them to discuss ideas with their Alikes ,mentors and consultants.

NEED OF THE PLATFORM

Imagine you are young entrepreneur who wants to create a venture, or a venture capitalist who wants to invest in a special business idea or country.

What do you do? You think about business idea, you think about where to find financing, you think about experienced guys who could help with the advice and mentor you. But the most important thing for all of them (mentor, entrepreneur, Venture capitalist, expert, business angel is a TEAM) - this is not just a words, but proved ones by many papers and researches.

Many of us (not all) are living in the world of Social Networks (virtual and real ones), we use facebook, we use linkedin. But why? To solve our problems in our personal life (firstly) - necessity of communication or sharing experience or whateever, only then - for work.

What are main problems in entrepreneruship?There are many, and our project aims on solving

them. The most important are:

- to find a team,

- to test, validate and prove hypothesis/business idea,

- to find funding his is really hard and long process of decision making,

- to develop and scale business model,

- to get mentorship, advices from experienced entrepreneurs,

- etc.

THE FUTURE IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP What about creating virtual incubator in the

countries where this infrastructure is not developed so good, as, say, in the US? Take example of Developing countries or Russia or CIS countries.What if we will create virtual community which will connect all these people and roles, organizations and funds on the online platform? It could have a lot of services and business models, but imagine that you could come and it will allow you to find right people in the right place at a right time?

And our team is all about that to create the future in entrepreneurship.

TEAM MEMBERS :Vasily Ryzhonkov (Team Lead) Mounir El OgbaniPavel PuchenkovNaveen JB

This is our idea and we call it

Virtual entrepreneurship Lab

It is the service for entrepreneurs, mentors, venture capitalists, experts, business angels who are involved and work on creating ventures. Main idea behind is to create a virtual community/incubator where all this people could meet and find assistance, information, knowledge on their particular topic about startups, find teams, share connections. This will be Virtual Social Network for Startups.

Unlike existing incubators and platforms our market is primarily Russia, CIS and developing countries which have lack of entrepreneurship activities or some problems with them (corruption, absence of mentors or venture capitalists, poor investment climate, high costs of starting up business, poor acces to international or global markets). Moreover, we are creating virtual community not a physical location such as Silicon Valley, or Famous Triangle. This virtual platform will be aimed on different customer segments with different services and proposals.