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MARCHMONT Venture LAB We present you a new project «MARCHMONT Venture LAB» Currently been receiving applications for this program in your region in 2013 The duration of the program depends on the requirements of a regional partner Content
Duration First day
09.00 – 10.00 Welcoming Coffee & Registration
1 hour
10.00 – 11.00 Opening session. Welcoming words Moderator: Kendrick D. White, founder and managing partner, Marchmont Capital Partners, Nizhny Novgorod. Topics for discussion: Development of regional innovation clusters in Russia - promoting federal initiatives by regional entrepreneurs Overcoming barriers and finding synergies between government, business and academia Trainers: * Sergei Mitrofanov, Director of Strategy SOCIALIST Company; Partner of BRANDFLIGHT ", Moscow. Vitaly Vinogradov, co-founder and CEO, i-Accelerator, Deputy. Director of "Innovation Centre of the Higher School of Economics", Moscow. Konstantin Pigalov, Director of Consulting, Marchmont Capital Partners.
1 hour
* Featured participants are approximate, in the case of employment Speaker, the Speaker may be replaced with a like. Guarantee the participation of at least three experts. Form of presentation: round table 11.00 - 12.00 Factors contributing to the development of innovation: State, Business, Education - Who is winning? For whom to follow? 1 hour
Trainer and consultant: Kendrick D. White, founder and managing partner, Marchmont Capital Partners, Nizhny Novgorod 1
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MARCHMONT Venture LAB Topics for discussion: The importance of the effectiveness of tax and legal systems, its role in reducing systemic barriers for business and increasing the volume. Encourage the private sector to invest in the modernization How Russian institutes and federal programs can support the commercialization of high-tech innovative ideas, CPP - as a catalyst system Strategies for the development of regional innovation clusters success stories and lessons learned Can Russia an effective innovation economy in the 21st century despite the historical cultural barriers? Form of presentation: lecture. 30 minutes
12.00 – 12.30 Break - Networking 12.30 – 14.30 Workshop 1. "From the lab to the market - the formation of a team that will succeed in attracting funding under «seed» and« start up» Trainers and consultants: Sergei Mitrofanov, Director of Strategy SOCIALIST Company; Partner of BRANDFLIGHT ", Moscow Peter Nemoy, Business consultant,General Laboratory Teatrika, St. Petersburg.
Director,Trend 2 hours
Topics for discussion: Building an effective team to develop the product and to market. Who should lead and direct a team of venture managers? The role of management education in the training of leaders, Venture Management. Success stories and lessons learned in forming teams. The role of mentors in training startups. Forms of presentation: Workshop. 1 hour
14.30 – 15.30 Break - Networking 15.30 – 17.30 Workshop 2. «Compliance»: the legal part of the business
2 hours
Trainers and consultants: Vitaly Vinogradov, co-founder and CEO, i-Accelerator, Deputy. Director of "Innovation Centre of the Higher School of Economics", 2
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MARCHMONT Venture LAB Moscow. Topics for discussion: Fundamentals of legislation on business. A brief overview of the current Russian legal system, that is business and its stakeholders, corporate and other organizational - legal forms of business, based on the corporate and contract law. Registration and licensing requirements. How to register the selected form and what to think about in advance, issues of compliance with licensing laws and special permits. Basics of labor relations. How to make labor relations with paid employees, including with hired top menezherami how to protect the company from the founders and dishonest employees. Structuring relationships with partners:
How to distribute shares?
In which jurisdiction to structure a deal.
How to use a special law (drag along, tag along, veto).
Why a preliminary agreement (term sheet).
How to be a shareholder agreement / agreement on the implementation of the rights of participants (shareholders'agreement) and what they are like a marriage contract Dispute resolution between partners. Forms of presentation: Workshop Questioning among the participants 17.30 – 18.00 Summary of the day
30 minutes
18:00 – 20:00 Dinner for speakers
2 hours Day two
09.00 – 10.00 Welcoming coffee and registration
1 hour
10.00 – 12.00 The commercialization of entrepreneurial innovation. Market leads to science. Trainers and consultants: Kendrick D. White, founder and managing partner, Marchmont Capital Partners, Nizhny Novgorod Topics for discussion: The role of modern science in the creation of venture capital projects. 3
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MARCHMONT Venture LAB Success story in the commercialization of innovative projects from regional Russian research centers and innovation clusters. Analysis of the experience of search and commercialization of innovative projects: business angels, venture capitalists, fund managers. Business and academia - cooperation in the creation of programs to support research centers and research laboratories. Support programs for the acceleration of projects and pre-sowing preparation. Examples: project in Bulgaria «Eleven», pre-project preparation facility - MIT Deshpande Center, the U.S., the center of pre-project preparation of the University of Utah, USA. Promotion of Russian innovation to the U.S. market. Example: Innovation Corridor between Nizhny Novgorod State University. NI Lobachevsky, Russia, and the University of Maryland, USA. Forms of presentation: round table. 1 hour
12:00 – 13:00 Break - Networking 13:00 - 15:00 Master class "Preparation of investment project - Define your audience" Trainers and consultants: Konstantin Pigalov, Director of Consulting, Marchmont Capital Partners Topics for discussion: Dialogue with the investor's language
2 hours
Attracting investment: -
Sources of funding
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Business plan and investment memorandum
How to create an investment proposal The art of presentation for investors Form of presentation: Master-class (practical training) 30 minutes
15:00 – 15:30 Break - Networking 15:30 – 17:00 Master-class "Support Program for Entrepreneurs" Trainers and consultants:
1 hour 30 minutes
Kendrick White, founder and managing partner, Marchmont Capital Partners, Nizhny Novgorod. Andrew Makshanov, a marketing vice president of the Nizhny 4
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MARCHMONT Venture LAB Novgorod Guild of Professional Consultants, managing partner of consulting firm "collective action", Nizhny Novgorod. Topics for discussion: Incubators and Accelerators Terminology: business incubators, accelerators, industrial parks, areas of innovation development, other types, status, goals and objectives. International practice. Analysis of the experience of leading countries (the U.S., Israel, etc.). Public and private initiatives; Conditions of cooperation with i-Accelerator and other similar programs to support; What projects was / could be considered, and on what conditions are providing support, that makes cooperation with the incubator / accelerator, what strategic objectives pursued by the incubator / accelerator; Y Combinator, Tech Stars, Plug & Play and other mentoring programs and off-site incubators Review of the best foreign practices and pioneers in the field бизнесинкубирования/акселерации companies, how to get to the residents / participants for the assessment of the appropriateness of specific cases and what resources are needed for this; Contests, test programs, and the like ("battles") Overview of various competitions and selections for new entrepreneurs in Russia and abroad, and assessment of the utility and feasibility of participation, you need to become a member, contact the organizers of the recommendations for successful participation. Form of presentation: Master-class (practical training). 17:00 – 18:30 Master class "Investing in research and development corporations - building a Russian innovation market" Trainers and consultants: • Kendrick White, founder and managing partner, Marchmont Capital Partners, Nizhny Novgorod Topics for discussion: • Global trends in corporate R & D investment - licensing and technology transfer • World's best practice technology commercialization, technology transfer, 5
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MARCHMONT Venture LAB and the tax laws • Practical experience in the corporate R & D investment by the example of the corporation Federal Express (FedEx) Form of presentation: Master-class (practical training). Day three 09:00 – 19:00 Training on the selection and evaluation of innovative projects: sequential presentation of the projects the panel of experts Expert: Kendrick White, founder and managing partner, Marchmont Capital Partners, Nizhny Novgorod Expert will consider individual project presentations for up to 10 minutes per presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. During the day, will be considered 25 individual projects, management of pre-selected research institutions, business incubators. The expert will assess the commercial viability of each project. Expert will select the top 10 projects that will be submitted for individual consultations in the long-term mentoring program. Schedule of presentations of projects:
10 hours
09:30 – 09:50 Project № 1 09:50 – 10:10 Project № 2 10:10 – 10:30 Project № 3 10:30 – 10:50 Project № 4 10:50 – 11: 10 Project № 5 11:10 – 11:30 Project № 6 11:30 – 11:50 Project № 7 11:50 – 12:10 Project № 8 12:10 – 12:30 Project № 9 12:30 – 12:50 Project № 10 13:00 – 14:00 Dinner for experts 6
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MARCHMONT Venture LAB 14:00 – 14:20 Project № 11 14:20 – 14:40 Project № 12 15:00 – 15:20 Project № 13 15:20 – 15:40 Project № 14 15:40 – 16:00 Project № 15 16:00 – 16:20 Project № 16 16:20 – 16:40 Project № 17 16:40 – 17:00 Project № 18 17:00 – 17:20 Project № 19 17:20 – 17:40 Project № 20 17:40 – 18:00 Project № 21 18:00 – 18:20 Project № 22 18:20 – 18:40 Project № 23 18:40 – 19:00 Project № 24 19:00 Discussion of the results of the program. Choosing the best 10 projects.
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