A startup is not just an idea, but a project in search of a scalable business model. He needs a team, and it can be combined from scratch in a few hours. He needs maximum market readiness, support and knowledge of key people on it, as well as a strong technological base.You can find all this in one weekend, if it is a working weekend from # tceh and Microsoft .December 12-14, in the center of Moscow, we will spend working Harvest weekends with an emphasis on projects that need accommodation in the cloud.
Here you can pump an idea or project at an early stage, strengthen the team or find a startup in which you want to work, and meet 15-20 industry experts and investors.
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What is a working weekend?
Harvest working weekend is partly a free analogue of a “start-up weekend”, partly a hackathon - but not only for developers. And with breaks to sleep;)Four years Harvests unite authors of interesting ideas and young professionals into teams for the weekend, help them get through the first steps in creating a project, provide knowledge and tools as part of the educational program, plus access to 15-20 entrepreneurs, investors and industry experts.
65% of projects start to grow faster after Harvest, because they find co-founders here, close a vacancy, receive recommendations from well-known experts and some industry PR.
Singles will receive contacts in large and medium-sized companies to speed up their careers (we have such cases), the knowledge and first experience to create your own project in the future, or simply find a project to your liking on the spot.

Special flow for developers
While your fellow humanists will be listening about landings, target audience and pitches, Microsoft experts will call you to talk about clouds and development.The special flow will begin at 14:00 on Saturday , but the first working session about customer development (correct work with the potential market) you will pass the whole team.
The benefits of working days off are not always instantaneous, although there is a story about
a poster developer who found a geolocation project here, helped them write a prototype, and became CTO. Now they are actively developing.
The guy, whose drone was used to deliver pizza, also started here (then he made an application for conferences).
Tolya Makarevich , who wrote Gistroll, also received the first experience of creating a project on Harvest.
And here you can make a lot of useful contacts - among the experts Harvest was Bobuk and other respected people.
A few days before the start, the organizers will send you a list of selected projects: register to watch out for it:

And if you have a project, kill two birds with one stone, and:


Educational program for those who want to work in a startup
On Saturday, the project teams that formed the day before go through working sessions. This is a mix of the educational program and practical work on the project under the guidance of an expert:- Morning. Customer development . Ilya Korolev, entrepreneur and investment manager of IIDF, will show you how to find a product that will be in demand.
- Day. Landing page . The anti-crisis manager of many startups (including My-Apps) Grigory Sitinin will help you find and explore the ideal client and prototype the product page so that you can buy it.
- Evening. Vision and packaging. The best Russian startup coach in presentations, Alexander Yanikhbash, will help create understandable pitch and slides for different audiences.
Regular check points for product progress and work with experts
So that you have more time, we will regularly carry out check-points and find out how each project is progressing. A special volunteer, a facilitator, will help orient your team in time and tasks.The main check-point will be the final - on Sunday evening the projects will take turns speaking to the jury, tell about themselves and their progress. Best results will be waiting for useful prizes to continue.
To prepare, all day before the final your team will communicate with investors, experienced entrepreneurs, employees of well-known IT companies and specialists from related industries.
Harvest experts include people from Yandex, Dream Industries, Microsoft, Spawn, Enter, large web and digital studios, investors from RWM, Leta, Almaz and iTech Capital.
Acquaintance and communication with them will be useful both for project leaders and independent participants, so that:
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Useful prizes
Those teams that show the best progress in three days will receive useful prizes for further work. Among them:
- month for free in the best startup coworking with experts and tracker (valid until February 2015) - from #tceh,
- Microsoft's $ 60,000 Azure Cloud grant
- and free participation in the Start in Garage program
It will be useful - at 100%. It will be cool - by 146%. Join now:
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