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About the forum
The Startup Forum is a platform where students present their business plans, present prototypes of projects and test their business ideas. The best of them receive cash grants and investor support to implement their business and social projects.
The forum is a preparatory stage before the National Championship - Startup National Cup Championship, and the World Championship - Startup World Cup Championship.
These events are held annually and are part of the International Business Academy (IBA) calendar of events.
The founders and organizers are:
International Business Academy (IBA) Educational Consortium and MiniBoss & BigBoss Business Schools International Network (United Kingdom).
Andrey Azarov
Introductory address by IBA founder, Chairman of the Global Business Council, Chairman of the Startup Forum Jury
Since the founding of the International Business Academy Education Consortium (Edinburgh, UK) in 2000, we have organised Startup Forums around the world every year. Startup Forums precede the Startup National Cup Championships and the Startup World Cup Championships.
In every city where there are branches of the International Education Network MINIBOSS & BIGBOSS BUSINESS SCHOOLS, we select the best projects and invest tens of thousands of euros per year in the development of children. Thank you to all jury members, who show their social responsibility and take part in the formation of a new generation of entrepreneurs.
Olga Azarova
Introductory speech by the founder of IBA, International Education Network MiniBoss & BigBoss Business Schools.
The Startup Forum gives young entrepreneurs the opportunity to implement their business projects in life. The investments that our members of the Global Business Council provide open doors to a world of opportunities and the realization of their dreams.
Our business angels, who provide grants for the implementation of social projects, give a start to a new generation of socially responsible entrepreneurs who in a few years will create businesses that care about the world without intermediaries and government superstructures.
Thank you to all the jury members whose financial, consulting and mentoring support shows that everything in the world is possible!
FORUM'S PURPOSE
Identification and support of innovative and socially useful business ideas for their further implementation by students of the International Education Network MINIBOSS & BIGBOSS BUSINESS SCHOOLS.
Young businessmen - representatives of various educational institutions, pupils of the International Education Network MINIBOSS BUSINESS SCHOOL and BIGBOSS BUSINESS SCHOOL have been trained for a year in the basics of entrepreneurship, divergent and inventive thinking, the basics of project management, and today they present their project ideas to the jury of the Startup Forum.
Most teams will get their first or next investment in their lives and in a month they will start their first business, which will be presented at the National Youth Entrepreneurship Championship.
MISSION
Development of the country's economy through support for business initiatives for children and young people.
Only a society that is thinking about 10-20 years ahead can take responsibility for the education of a new generation of entrepreneurs.
Today there is not a single educational institution in the world that can provide a full cycle of specialized education and maturation of entrepreneurs.
This is done only by the International Business Academy (IBA) Educational Consortium (www.iba- cobsortium.com), which for 16 years from the age of 3 leads a young entrepreneur to consciously create their own business.
GRANT SUPPORT
Owners and top managers of companies, representatives of state authorities and municipalities will be able to evaluate the projects prepared by schoolchildren and support them by issuing their corporate or personal grants.
For children, the fact of receiving initial capital (grants) from entrepreneurs and the fact of moral support from the business elite and representatives of the government and municipality is important.
In times of total national production deficit, we are teaching children to set up companies that, in a few years' time, will be involved in creating the GDP of each of the countries involved in our educational projects.
WHO ARE THE PARTICIPANTS
Students of MiniBoss & BigBoss Business Schools and Women's Business Academy and mentoring programs of the International Business Academy Consortium (United Kingdom) are allowed to participate in the International Startup Forums.
It is allowed to participate in the Startup Forums those students who during the first semester of each academic year:
It is allowed to participate in the Startup Forums those students who during the first semester of each academic year:
- studied the course at a business school;
- passed a series of master classes;
- created an innovative business idea independently or in a team;
- prepared a technical and financial justification for their project;
- described the business model;
- prepared PDF and VIDEO presentations;
- have applied to participate in one or more Startup Forums.
AS JURY MEMBERS DECIDE ON THE INVESTMENT
PROJECT IDEA ANALYSIS, PRESENTATIONS AND SPEECHES
Each idea will be evaluated by the jury members for competitiveness.
EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY, ITS REALITY
Each team will present a strategy for the development of their project and the realism of its implementation.
USE OF MEDIA OR USE OF INTERNET RESOURCES
Each team will present a plan to promote their product or service
MARKETING STRATEGY EVALUATION, SUSTAINABILITY
Each marketing strategy should contain real promotion tools.
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