Novosti programa Go:Global Slovenia – za podporo zagonskim podjetjem pri njihovem prodoru na svetovni trg

The Go:Global Slovenia is a comprehensive national program for supporting start-up companies to enter the world market. The program is implemented by the Initiative Start:up Slovenia with the partnership of  Development Centre for Information and Communication Technologies.

Under the Go:Global programme the following activities were successfully carried out:

• Two generations of entrepreneurs completed MBA entrepreneurial management program successfully. Five-week training course with five mentors in five sections was attended by 35 entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial groups.
• There were included 150 eminent entrepreneur experts and co-creators of the Slovene entrepreneur and high-tech ecosystem, that have many years of experience and knowledge to pass to younger generations.
• There were three one-to-one (1:1) mentoring events, total attendance of more than 200 companies and mentors.

New topics of the Go:Global Slovenia programme:

• Training start-up entrepreneurs  in state-of-the-art entrepreneurial methodologies enterprise (lean and agile product development) / The biggest mistake entrepreneurs do is to develop intellectual property – solutions, that no one is willing to pay. Referring to the “Business Model Generation” and the “Lean Startup” methodologies which are aimed for the best companies with to goal to achieve the rapid global growth on dynamic markets.
• Training entrepreneurs to become investment ready / The program “Go:Global Investment readiness” consists of four modules in which entrepreneurs can obtain an in-depth and comprehensive knowledge of venture capital investments and other potential financial sources which may acquire on the market.
• Programme for including of start-up companies in foreign entrepreneurial accelerators. So-called entrepreneurial particle accelerators have occurred in the global markets in the past few years. They provide access to global markets for entrepreneurial teams and also to additional capital. The feature of the program for the applicants in entrepreneurial accelerator is that mentors are solely entrepreneurs who were already admitted to one of the global accelerators.
• Monitoring programme for start-up companies (especially after gaining state funding) / The monitoring programme allows to closely monitor the development of start-up companies and deviation from the planned operations, mainly in order to optimize the use of national money or control of venture capital investments. The key of the monitoring programme is not only the control of the company, but it is also a comprehensive programme which includes mentorship, business consultancy services and monitoring.

Upgraded topics of the Go:Global Slovenia:

• Entrepreneurial management programme for the professional organization of start-up companies / a systematic and a practical entrepreneurial management course for start-up companies where entrepreneurs bring organization, product and processes to their companies based on a well-thought-out curriculum and continuously assigned activities. The mentoring programme includes systematic educational meetings and practical work on individual business functions under careful mentoring from the most experienced business experts.
• One-to-one mentoring programme and networking between entrepreneurs and experts/ An intensive program of networking between entrepreneurs and experts, aiming to meet and agree to work together in a depth in the mentoring relationship. In the Go:Global Slovenia mentoring programme, more than 150 selected Slovenian and foreign experts are involved. In one-to-one (1 : 1) mentoring, mentors assist program participants in solving specific problems.
• Platform for global product marketing on key markets / The Go:Global platform for entering foreign markets, specialised for start-up companies, all practical information about global entrepreneurial hubs and infrastructure networks providing entrepreneurs with the chance to immediately doing business abroad.

In the autumn programme period we announce:

• Application aid to enter the accelerator Y Combinator, October 9th, 2013.

Over the past few years, entrepreneurial accelerators have appeared on the global markets offering entrepreneurial teams access to global markets and also to additional capital. Entrepreneurial accelerators have become an important tool of start-up companies in Slovenia to expand their business onto global markets.

There is not an easy way take part in the global accelerator, since the best accelerators usually accept only a few per cent of more than thousand applicants. Therefore, entrepreneurs need a careful preparation before applying in such accelerators, which is covered by the Go:Global programme. Each of these accelerators has launched the deadline for submission of the application form. This time we are inviting all entrepreneurs who are interested in joining the accelerator Y Combinator. It will be presented by Robert Farazin.

Robart Farazin is an energetic visionary with exceptional entrepreneurial ideas. His company Double Recall was the first Slovenian company adopted in the most popular American accelerator Y Combinator. In 2013 he was also joined London TechStars accelerator with his new company Iptvbeat.

Additional information and registration form are available on the programme website.

• 1:1 mentoring event, December 3rd, 2013

Welcome to this year’s second 1:1 (one to one) mentoring event, which will be held on December 3rd 2013, at 16 a.m. in the Technology Park Ljubljana (Technology park 19, building B, ground floor).  It is a specialised event where each enterprise group meets with the selected mentors and receives individual consultancy in various fields.

The event consists of 20 minutes mentoring sessions on which every entrepreneur meets with mentors. Meanwhile there is networking among mentors with the purpose that mentors get to know each other during the time when they are not mentoring entrepreneurs.

Additional information and registration form are available on the programme website.

Experiences of the participants of the Go:global program

RC IKT members who have participated in this year Go:Global MBA and 1:1 mentoring event have said:

»Entrepreneurs can recive useful information and guidelines, which should be reasonably taken into account in developing the company«.

Jožica Kržič, AITSA

»We have established many contacts with potential partners and potential investors. Lecturers showed us practical cases from their experiences and presented lines of business that we, as engineers, didn’t really know well. After visiting workshops this lines of business seem crucial for the success of the company. We now know that it is not enough to know the industry in which we operate, and it is not enough that we have qualified experts in our field. For a breakthrough on global markets we will need a decisive contribution in areas in which we are not yet experienced at (the entry on the market, customer satisfaction measurement, pivot, find investors, developing business model through time).  The formula that it has been discussed as extremely important: new acquaintances + practical knowledge transfer + new knowledge = success of the company«.

Goran Bambič, Codemonkee

More information about Go:Global Slovenia can be found here.

You are kindly invited to join global-oriented entrepreneurs!

Go:Global Slovenia  je celovit nacionalni program za podporo zagonskim podjetjem pri njihovem prodoru na svetovni trg. Program se izvaja v okviru Iniciative Start:up Slovenija, kjer je kot partner vključen tudi Razvojni center za informacijske in komunikacijske tehnologije.

V okviru programa Go:Global so bile uspešno izvedene sledeče aktivnosti:

• Dve generaciji podjetnikov sta uspešno zaključili MBA Podjetniški management program. Pet-tedenskega usposabljanja, s petimi mentorji, na petih vsebinskih sklopih, se je udeležilo 35 podjetnikov ali podjetniških skupin.
• V program se je vključilo več kot 150 uglednih podjetniških strokovnjakov in soustvarjalcev slovenskega podjetniškega ter visokotehnološkega ekosistema, ki dolgoletne izkušnje in znanja predajajo mlajšim generacijam.
• Izvedeni so bili trije ena na ena (1:1) mentorski dogodki, katerih se je skupno udeležilo več kot 200 podjetij in mentorjev.

Novi vsebinski sklopi programa Go:Global Slovenia:

1. Program usposabljanja podjetnikov v zagonskih podjetjih s sodobnimi metodologijami podjetništva (vitek in agilen razvoj proizvodov) / Največja napaka podjetnikov je razvoj intelektualne lastnine – rešitev, ki jih nihče ni pripravljen plačati. Gre za sklop generacije poslovnega modela (»Business model generation«) in vitkih zagonskih metodologij (»The lean Startup«), ki so namenjene najboljšim podjetjem z ambicijami hitre globalne rasti na dinamičnih trgih.
2. Program usposabljanja podjetnikov za pridobitev investicije  / Program »Go:Global Investment Readiness« sestavljajo štirje moduli, v katerih podjetnik pridobi poglobljeno in celostno znanje o investicijah tveganega kapitala in drugih potencialnih virih denarja, ki jih lahko pridobi na trgu.
3. Program vključevanja slovenskih zagonskih podjetij v tuje podjetniške pospeševalnike / V preteklih letih so se na svetovnem trgu pojavili t. i. podjetniški pospeševalniki, ki podjetniškim ekipam omogočajo dostop do globalnih trgov, in tudi do dodatnega kapitala. Posebnost programa za prijavo v pospeševalnik je, da pomoč in mentorstvo zagotavljajo izključno podjetniki, ki so bili sami že sprejeti v katerega izmed svetovnih pospeševalnikov.
4. Monitoring zagonskih podjetij (predvsem po pridobitvi državnih subvencij) / Program monitoringa omogoča skrbno spremljanje razvoja zagonskega podjetja in odstopanj od načrtovanega poslovanja, predvsem z namenom optimalne porabe državnega denarja ali nadzora investicije tveganega kapitala. Ključno pri programu monitoringa je, da ne gre samo za nadzor nad podjetjem, temveč za celostni program, ki vključuje tako mentoriranje, podjetniško svetovanje kot tudi nadzor.

Nadgrajeni vsebinski sklopi Go:Global Slovenia:

1. Podjetniški management program za profesionalno organizacijo zagonskega podjetja  / Sistematičen in praktičen podjetniški menedžerski program za zagonska podjetja, kjer podjetnik skozi skrbno pripravljen kurikulum in sproti dodeljene aktivnosti vzpostavi organizacijo, proizvod in procese v svojem podjetju. Mentorski program zajema sistematična izobraževalna srečanja in praktično delo na posameznih poslovnih funkcijah pod skrbnim mentorstvom najbolj izkušenih podjetniških strokovnjakov.
2. Individualni mentorski program ter mreženje med podjetniki in mentorji / Intenziven program mreženja med podjetniki in mentorji, s ciljem, da se spoznajo in dogovorijo za poglobljeno mentorsko sodelovanje. V mentorski program Go:Global Slovenia je vključenih več kot 150 izbranih slovenskih in tujih mentorjev. V okviru mentoriranja ena na ena (1 : 1), mentorji pomagajo udeležencem programa pri reševanju specifičnih težav.
3. Platforma za globalno trženje proizvodov na ključnih trgih  / Go:Global platforma za vstop na tuje trge, specializirana za zagonska podjetja, obsega na enem mestu zbrane praktične informacije o svetovnih podjetniških vozliščih in infrastrukturno mrežo, ki podjetnikom omogoča takojšen začetek poslovanja v tujini.

V jesenskem programskem obdobju najavljamo:

• Program pomoči prijave v pospeševalnik Y Combinator, 9. oktobra 2013 

V preteklih letih so se na svetovnem trgu zagnali podjetniški pospeševalniki, ki podjetniškim ekipam omogočajo dostop do globalnih trgov, in tudi do dodatnega kapitala. Tako so podjetniški pospeševalniki postali pomembno orodje slovenskih zagonskih podjetij za širjenje na tuje trge.

Sprejem v globalni pospeševalnik ni enostaven, saj navadno najboljši pospeševalniki sprejmejo le nekaj odstotkov prijavljenih, od več kot tisoč prijav izberejo nekaj deset podjetij. Zato je potrebna skrbna priprava podjetnikov na prijavo v tovrstne pospeševalnike, kar je tudi del programa Go:Global. Vsak od naštetih pospeševalnikov ima razpisan rok za oddajo prijavnice. Tokrat vabljeni vsi, ki vas zanima vstop v pospeševalnik Y Combinator, kjer bo Robert Farazin predstavil pospeševalnik, svojo osebno izkušnjo in stvari, na katere mora podjetnik še posebno paziti pri prijavi.

Robart Farazin je energičen vizionar z izjemnimi podjetniškimi idejami. Njegovo podjetje Double Recall je bilo prvo slovensko podjetje, sprejeto v najbolj priljubljen ameriški pospeševalnik Y Combinator. Leta 2013 pa je bil Robert Farazin s svojim novim podjetjem Iptvbeat sprejet v londonski TechStars. 

Dodatne informacije in prijavnica so tukaj.

• 1:1 mentorski dogodek, 3. decembra 2013

Vabljeni na drugi letošnji 1:1 (ena na ena) mentorski dogodek, ki bo potekal 3. decembra 2013, ob 16. uri v Tehnološkem parku Ljubljana (Tehnološki park 19, pritličje stavbe B). Gre za specializiran dogodek, kjer se vsaka podjetniška skupina sreča z izbranimi mentorji in je deležna individualnega svetovanja z različnih področij.

Dogodek poteka tako, da se izvajajo serije 20 minutnega mentoriranja, na katerih se vsak podjetnik sreča z želenimi mentorji. Vzporedno poteka mreženje med mentorji, katerega namen je, da se mentorji med seboj spoznajo v tistem času, ko ne svetujejo podjetnikom.

Dodatne informacije in prijavnica so tukaj. 

Izkušnje udeležencev Go:global programa: 

RC IKT člana, ki sta se letos udeležila Go:Global MBA in 1:1 mentorskega dogodka sta izjavila:

Za podjetnike so podane informacije koristne kot usmeritve, ki jih je treba smiselno upoštevati pri razvoju podjetja.

Jožica Kržič, AITSA 

Predvsem smo navezali veliko stikov s potencialnimi partnerji in morebitnimi investitorji. Predavatelji so nam na praktičnih primerih iz svojih izkušenj razširili vedenje na področjih, ki jih kot inženirji nikoli nismo prav dobro razumeli. Po obisku delavnic se nam zdijo ravno ta področja glavna za uspeh podjetja. Zdaj vemo, da ni dovolj, da odlično poznamo panogo, v kateri delujemo, in ni dovolj, da smo usposobljeni strokovnjaki na svojem področju. Za preboj na trg bo odločilen vložek v področja, na katerih še nismo najbolj suvereni (vstop na trg, merjenje zadovoljstva kupcev, pivotiranje, iskanje investitorjev, razvijanje poslovnega modela skozi čas). Formula, ki je pred tem nismo obravnavali kot izjemno pomembno: nova poznanstva + prenos praktičnih znanj + vložek v nova znanja = uspeh podjetja.

Goran Bambič, Codemonkee 

Več izjav podjetnikov si lahko preberete tukaj. 

Več informacij o Go:Global Slovenia si lahko preberete tukaj. 

Vabljeni, da se pridružite globalno usmerjenim podjetnikom!