6. More than 35 speakers, mentors, advisers
J.Nordmark I. Shoifot V.
Voskresenskiy
A.Degterev
a
B .Sathianathan
B.Dorf
P.Asayan
G. Penchina
R. ChatwaniB.Susanne B.Day
M.Liao Z.Gelat B.
Commagere
G. Kanwar V. Golomb A.Shoiket
M. Baldwin T. Kromer M.Duva
J. Gower T.Gauda
10. Business
model
Team Financial ,
legal and IP
issues
Fundraising
& work
with
investors
Organizational
& project
management
Pitching and
presentation
EDU topics
1.Essential subjects. Entity basics.
2.Growth
Go-To-
Market
Overview
Strategy &
planning
VIRALITY Basics of
Sales &
Marketing
SEO/SMM B2C,B2B, Af
filiates
programs
11. Prototype ,
MVP, New
technologies
Design Usability Value of
product
Scaling EXIT
strategy
3.PRODUCT
EDU topics
SV
calendar&
manual for
participants
Business
culture and
attitude
Speaking,
listening,
networking
SV
ecosytem
Video,
books,
movies,
practice
Intensive
English
Negotiation
skills
4.Making ready to SV & personal development
14. American Breakthrough Program:
Attendance of the 9 big IT conferences and events
Meetings with world-known corporations such as
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others
Pitches to Dave McClure at 500 startups Accelerator
Discussion of HF startups with Steve Blank
3 Happy Farm events for Silicon Valley Startup
community
1:1 pitch to the 30 well- known ventures
15. American Breakthrough EXPERIENCE:
6 companies developed own network of business
contacts and US based partners
2 companies attract US based team members
2 companies in the process of closing first deals
with VCs
3 new Board members attracted
35 new mentors and advisers involved for next
season
37 days and 555 hours of work,
meetings, events, pitches, negotiation
and networking
16. HAPPY FARM SERVICES
an effective pivoted startup accelerating program 2 months
a profitable internship in Silicon Valley 1 month
expertise and business development 5 months
coaching and mentoring 5 months
legal and financial professional support 5 months
workspace, accommodation, board 3 months
investment search
17. WHAT ARE OUR CONDITIONS?
$70K investments for 15% equity =
= $55K services + $15K cash
Frequency: 2 cycles per year
18. PARTICIPATION PROCESS
II Cycle
Crash test – May, 13th
1st Board: top-10/20 residents selection – May, 17th
Acceleration program – May, 20th – July, 20th
2nd Board: top-5/10 residents for the US selection –
July, 20th
American Breakthrough Internship - September
21. Apply for Happy Farm
Acceleration program
RIGHT NOW!
III Cycle:
September, 2013 –
January, 2014
22. APPLYING FOR PROGRAMS
Deadline: May,10th happyfarm.com.ua
2 + 1 + 2
A CLASS:
for residents
Application form fields:
Project title
Project category
Project idea
Project web-site
Company profile on Angel List
Company profile on Facebook
LinkedIn profile of CEO
Company profile on Twitter
Link to the video
Problem
Solution
Business-model (canvas)
Product market
Competitors
Team
Required fund-raising
Financials
23. HOW TO GET STARTED
2 + 1 + 2
Come to Happy Farm and we’ll help you to make it!
24. HOW TO GET STARTED
2 + 1 + 2
Come to Happy Farm and we’ll help you to create your profile!
25. HAPPY CLASSES
Class A. STARTUP RESIDENTS
Class B. PROVEN TALENT
Class C. YOUNG GUNS
Class D. JUMP START
Class E. THINK GLOBAL
Class F. COLLABORATE US STUDENTS
Class G. COLLABORATE US BUSINESS
26. Teams ready to develop their own
Tech projects:
• Mobile,
• Cloud,
• Computing,
• Games,
• Social Networking,
• Saas etc.
Class A. STARTUP RESIDENTS
HAPPY CLASSES
27. IT specialists ready to work on a project to
outsource major USA companies, and in
exchange receive a share in the company.
Class B. PROVEN TALENT
HAPPY CLASSES
28. Students from technical universities, ready
to develop innovative projects and solutions
for US companies.
Class C. YOUNG GUNS
HAPPY CLASSES
29. Special short mentorship program for students
with interesting ideas.
Class D. JUMP START
HAPPY CLASSES
30. Already operating businesses, whether
small, medium-sized and large looking to
enter global markets, and to develop their
technical executives.
Class E. THINK GLOBAL
HAPPY CLASSES
31. Talented students from technical universities,
ready to develop and collaborate with students
from Stanford and Berkeley as a team.
Class F. COLLABORATE US STUDENTS
HAPPY CLASSES
32. Young entrepreneurs who are ready to work as
representatives of U.S. companies to develop
their business in European markets.
Class G. COLLABORATE US BUSINESS
HAPPY CLASSES
The main idea was to introduce to founders initial topics in order to help them to get the point where they can develop something valuable enough to raise investments for further growth and scale. We ve been very clear that it shuold be compelation of learning by doing, researching, benchmarking.