Silicon Valley: infrastructure, practice, investors!
December 2-13, 2012
We would like to invite Skolkovo Companies to participate in a visit to the business incubator Go Valley! (http://www.govalley.ru) in Silicon Valley (USA). The Go Valley! Program is for all those who wish to meet entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley, and learn from their experience and discover the best way to establish your own company and run a successful global business.
Participants of the program will become acquainted with the infrastructure of the Valley - visit the offices of major IT companies, meet the leading venture investors (DST, Garage Ventures, DFJ, Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, etc.), visit the business incubators and accelerators (Hacker Dojo, YCombinator, 500 startups, Blackbox, Startup Monthly, and many others).
Practical experience, gained as a result of the trip:
Especially for companies in the biomedical sector there will be organized visits to the largest companies, start-ups and business incubators (Nektar, Talon, Onyx, Cell Genesys, BioMarin, Neugenesis, Gryphon, and many others.) A special event will also be held, where companies from Russia will have an opportunity to make presentations to venture investors and other biomedical companies from the U.S.A. and get feedback. A special program is designed for IT-companies, as well.
Good command of the English language is necessary for full participation in the trip.
Payment for participation is required. The total price of participation is 115,200 rubles per person plus airfare. Payment can be made on the basis of two contracts: 8,000 rubles +18% VAT (with Skolkovo Technopark) and 105,760 rubles, no VAT (with Go Valley!).
Registration deadline - Thursday, November 8. To register for this trip, please send a completed registration form (attached) with proof of payment under the contract with Skolkovo Technopark (sample contract attached) to the following address: opskolkovo@dlcom.ru
Please find enclosed:
Additional Information:
8 (495) 967 0148, opskolkovo@dlcom.ru, and also to
http://international.sk.ru
Welcome!
Dr. Anna Nikina Head of Development, International Programs T +7 (495) 967 0148 ext.2491 E an(at)sk.ru