RBC found out how successful startups of ex-managers of Yandex and Mail.ru Group are
According to Forbes in 2013, after leaving Facebook, every tenth employee founded his own startup. RBC conducted a similar study for two Russian companies - Yandex and Mail.ru Group . They are the largest Internet companies in Russia, there are more than 15 years and have a total of more than 9 thousand employees.
Over the past three years, about 2 thousand people have left Yandex. Mail.ru does not disclose similar information.
We managed to find out that only 35 former managers of these companies created startups: 23 people from Yandex and 12 people from Mail.ru.
Opening a startup is always a big risk and no guarantees. A large company cannot give business skills, the co-founder and managing partner of the Runa Capital investment fund Dmitry Chikhachev is sure.
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In 2011, Runa Capital invested a million dollars in the service for finding profitable deals in the online stores "Advisor" . The creator of the service is Mikhail Ushakov, the ex-director of Yandex at PR.
In Russia, many are afraid of losing, afraid that they will not have enough experience. "Unfortunately, we have a person who failed the project, is considered a failure, and in Silicon Valley - just an experienced entrepreneur," said Kirill Belov, managing partner of the venture capital fund Impulse VC .
One of the successful examples is the Get-N-Post project of a former Mail.ru employee Leonid Nikolaev, launched in January 2014. He works in the field of email marketing. The first investor of the Get-N-Post since the launch was just the Impulse VC fund.
Former technical director of the Moi Mir social network, Ivan Panchenko founded the Postgres Professional company . It promotes and supports the freely distributed PostgreSQL database management system on the Russian market.
Startups created by ex-managers cannot be compared by any single criteria. First, many of them work in non-intersecting niches. Secondly, companies vary greatly in size and scale.
For example, in the group of IT companies DZ Systems Dmitry Zavalishin, the former head of development of the Yandex portal, employs about 170 employees. According to SPARK, its revenue for 2014 almost reached 160 million rubles.
Another example is Pavlov's Dog , the company of the former Yandex.Money Product Development Director Olga Pavlova. She businessmen optimize online service. Now the company is working on two dozen major projects. The average cost of one contract of the company is 300 thousand rubles.
Some managers, leaving the company, in their new projects are doing the same as they were doing at the previous place of work. For example, former employees of Yandex Lev Gershenzon and Galina Tikhonchuk, who worked in the company on the search, founded the company Detectum . She also specializes in search, but only in the online stores.
RBC specialists calculated that out of 35 startups of ex-employees of Yandex and Mail.ru, 17 make a profit, and 14 have attracted investments.
Over the past three years, about 2 thousand people have left Yandex. Mail.ru does not disclose similar information.
We managed to find out that only 35 former managers of these companies created startups: 23 people from Yandex and 12 people from Mail.ru.
Opening a startup is always a big risk and no guarantees. A large company cannot give business skills, the co-founder and managing partner of the Runa Capital investment fund Dmitry Chikhachev is sure.
')
In 2011, Runa Capital invested a million dollars in the service for finding profitable deals in the online stores "Advisor" . The creator of the service is Mikhail Ushakov, the ex-director of Yandex at PR.
In Russia, many are afraid of losing, afraid that they will not have enough experience. "Unfortunately, we have a person who failed the project, is considered a failure, and in Silicon Valley - just an experienced entrepreneur," said Kirill Belov, managing partner of the venture capital fund Impulse VC .
One of the successful examples is the Get-N-Post project of a former Mail.ru employee Leonid Nikolaev, launched in January 2014. He works in the field of email marketing. The first investor of the Get-N-Post since the launch was just the Impulse VC fund.
Former technical director of the Moi Mir social network, Ivan Panchenko founded the Postgres Professional company . It promotes and supports the freely distributed PostgreSQL database management system on the Russian market.
Startups created by ex-managers cannot be compared by any single criteria. First, many of them work in non-intersecting niches. Secondly, companies vary greatly in size and scale.
For example, in the group of IT companies DZ Systems Dmitry Zavalishin, the former head of development of the Yandex portal, employs about 170 employees. According to SPARK, its revenue for 2014 almost reached 160 million rubles.
Another example is Pavlov's Dog , the company of the former Yandex.Money Product Development Director Olga Pavlova. She businessmen optimize online service. Now the company is working on two dozen major projects. The average cost of one contract of the company is 300 thousand rubles.
Some managers, leaving the company, in their new projects are doing the same as they were doing at the previous place of work. For example, former employees of Yandex Lev Gershenzon and Galina Tikhonchuk, who worked in the company on the search, founded the company Detectum . She also specializes in search, but only in the online stores.
RBC specialists calculated that out of 35 startups of ex-employees of Yandex and Mail.ru, 17 make a profit, and 14 have attracted investments.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/291262/
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