Report from the Silicon Valley Open Doors conference in Silicon Valley - meeting people
Many are already familiar with the annual SVOD conference in Silicon Valley (the next one will take place on June 11-12 ), which, although it does not focus entirely on the Russian-speaking audience, traditionally brings together prominent Russian-speaking and English-speaking business investors (this year the head of Electronic Arts will be one of the speakers) ). On SVOD you can easily communicate with interesting people, which we did.
Sergey Burkov is an entrepreneur with the education of a physicist. In the early 2000s, he sold Google startup, was the first head of Google R & D in Russia (unofficially has the status of “a person who brought Google to Russia”), an accelerator mentor 500 Startups and a member of the board of directors AmBAR . Sergey gave a very interesting and unexpected interview. Together with a story about what he does and why it is worth going to SVOD, Sergey also told the story of his failure in one of his projects (a long interview with Sergey ).
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Under the cut more interesting videos.
Alex Fedoseev has twice presented his startups on SVOD. The first time he presented a startup 4HomeMedia in 2007, the startup was sold to Motorola in 2010, where Alexey took over as director of product development. In 2013, Alexey presented his new startup 1World Online, which received more than a million investments after the conference.
The head of Evernote, Phil Libin, said that the company's presentation on SVOD played a large role in their subsequent takeoff (the company's current valuation is $ 2 billion). After SVOD, Evernote received the first large round of investments, including from Russian investors (Troika). In a short interview, Phil Libin says a lot of interesting things about trends, self-education, about Evernote plans and how to maximize the chances of creating a successful startup (see the link for decoding in Russian). In general, the background to the creation of Evernote can be found in our interview with its founder Stepan Pachikov .
Well-known Russian entrepreneur Ruslan Fazlyev, CEO and founder of Ecwid (the world's popular platform for online shopping for mobile devices and Facebook, the # 1 application on Facebook in its category) considers it a bad taste to call mobile as a trend, but at the same time emphasizes that mobile not fully started yet.
As for education, Elena Masolova, co-founder of Groupon Russia and CEO Pixonic, presented her new start-up Eduson.tv on SVOD, honed specifically for this area. Elena predicts that in 3 years the education will change completely - most of the students will study online from home, and the programs will be made up of courses from various educational institutions. Elena also noted the trend for the mobile, but more as a channel for reporting information, as well as virtual content (coupons, online courses, virtual goods, games, etc.).
American investors, such as Brian Jacobs (well-known investor from companies such as Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, Lithium, Yammer, Veeva, SupportSpace, Echosign, Box), are considered a very “hot" area of ​​the enterprise due to the increased demand in the B2B sector. Brian also noted mobile, cloud, the decline in popularity of B2C and CleanTech, and also advised not to follow the trends too much, because if you have a good application for users (B2C) that you believe in, then it is very likely that by the time you run, B2C will be on the horse again.
B2B-startup BuildersCloud, a cloud service for large construction companies (for drawings, for example), was presented by Andrey Nokhrin, a former manager of a construction company, now a resident of TechStars incubator. BuildersCloud received an offer also from the accelerator 500 Startups, but chose TechStars, which, according to Andrew, is better. One of Andrew's advisors is Sergey Burkov.
Dmitry Chikhachev, managing partner of Runa Capital, noted that many startups are trying to create products for large corporations, which, in his opinion, should not be done, because it requires huge financial costs and long sales cycles. For large corporations, the main thing is not how innovative the product is, but how reliable and time-tested it is. Although in this area, many startups manage to succeed. Dmitri noted as “megatrends” mobile, peer-to-peer communications, cloud computing. Big changes are coming in the fields of education, finance, health care, public services.
Christine Tsai, partner of the 500 Startups incubator. According to her, trends do not last long enough, you just need to find an acute problem that I would like to solve, however, adjusted for an estimate of the size of the market.
We talked with Jacob Diener, the founder of the company Driveway Software, which helps insurance companies to improve the definition of risk drivers. > 1 million dollars invested in a startup, incl. from Russian investors (Igor Matsanyuk, Igor Ryabenky). Full interview by reference .
This is only a small part of the people with whom we spoke. There were many other well-known investors, entrepreneurs, journalists (TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, The New York Times), and even the NASA astronaut, who is now an entrepreneur.
The atmosphere of the conference is conveyed by this short overview video:
Read more about the Silicon Valley Open Doors conference here .
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Sergey Burkov is an entrepreneur with the education of a physicist. In the early 2000s, he sold Google startup, was the first head of Google R & D in Russia (unofficially has the status of “a person who brought Google to Russia”), an accelerator mentor 500 Startups and a member of the board of directors AmBAR . Sergey gave a very interesting and unexpected interview. Together with a story about what he does and why it is worth going to SVOD, Sergey also told the story of his failure in one of his projects (a long interview with Sergey ).
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Under the cut more interesting videos.
Alex Fedoseev has twice presented his startups on SVOD. The first time he presented a startup 4HomeMedia in 2007, the startup was sold to Motorola in 2010, where Alexey took over as director of product development. In 2013, Alexey presented his new startup 1World Online, which received more than a million investments after the conference.
The head of Evernote, Phil Libin, said that the company's presentation on SVOD played a large role in their subsequent takeoff (the company's current valuation is $ 2 billion). After SVOD, Evernote received the first large round of investments, including from Russian investors (Troika). In a short interview, Phil Libin says a lot of interesting things about trends, self-education, about Evernote plans and how to maximize the chances of creating a successful startup (see the link for decoding in Russian). In general, the background to the creation of Evernote can be found in our interview with its founder Stepan Pachikov .
Well-known Russian entrepreneur Ruslan Fazlyev, CEO and founder of Ecwid (the world's popular platform for online shopping for mobile devices and Facebook, the # 1 application on Facebook in its category) considers it a bad taste to call mobile as a trend, but at the same time emphasizes that mobile not fully started yet.
As for education, Elena Masolova, co-founder of Groupon Russia and CEO Pixonic, presented her new start-up Eduson.tv on SVOD, honed specifically for this area. Elena predicts that in 3 years the education will change completely - most of the students will study online from home, and the programs will be made up of courses from various educational institutions. Elena also noted the trend for the mobile, but more as a channel for reporting information, as well as virtual content (coupons, online courses, virtual goods, games, etc.).
American investors, such as Brian Jacobs (well-known investor from companies such as Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, Lithium, Yammer, Veeva, SupportSpace, Echosign, Box), are considered a very “hot" area of ​​the enterprise due to the increased demand in the B2B sector. Brian also noted mobile, cloud, the decline in popularity of B2C and CleanTech, and also advised not to follow the trends too much, because if you have a good application for users (B2C) that you believe in, then it is very likely that by the time you run, B2C will be on the horse again.
B2B-startup BuildersCloud, a cloud service for large construction companies (for drawings, for example), was presented by Andrey Nokhrin, a former manager of a construction company, now a resident of TechStars incubator. BuildersCloud received an offer also from the accelerator 500 Startups, but chose TechStars, which, according to Andrew, is better. One of Andrew's advisors is Sergey Burkov.
Dmitry Chikhachev, managing partner of Runa Capital, noted that many startups are trying to create products for large corporations, which, in his opinion, should not be done, because it requires huge financial costs and long sales cycles. For large corporations, the main thing is not how innovative the product is, but how reliable and time-tested it is. Although in this area, many startups manage to succeed. Dmitri noted as “megatrends” mobile, peer-to-peer communications, cloud computing. Big changes are coming in the fields of education, finance, health care, public services.
Christine Tsai, partner of the 500 Startups incubator. According to her, trends do not last long enough, you just need to find an acute problem that I would like to solve, however, adjusted for an estimate of the size of the market.
We talked with Jacob Diener, the founder of the company Driveway Software, which helps insurance companies to improve the definition of risk drivers. > 1 million dollars invested in a startup, incl. from Russian investors (Igor Matsanyuk, Igor Ryabenky). Full interview by reference .
This is only a small part of the people with whom we spoke. There were many other well-known investors, entrepreneurs, journalists (TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, The New York Times), and even the NASA astronaut, who is now an entrepreneur.
The atmosphere of the conference is conveyed by this short overview video:
Read more about the Silicon Valley Open Doors conference here .
Thank you for your attention and for the positive feedback. Subscribe to our blog on Habré , Twitter , Facebook , Google+ , VK , YouTube channel to follow updates from Silicon Valley. Previous posts can be viewed at RusValley.com .
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