FRIA launches online search service for employees and partners for startups
The Internet Initiatives Development Foundation ( IIDF ) launches a resource to search for co-founders of CoFoundIt.ru startups. While the service is in beta testing. The first users of the site will be 100 people from the database of IIDF. In addition to the founders, these are specialists who are interested in working in young innovative companies.
The service will allow young startups to receive support from residents and graduates of IIDF. In 2014 alone, more than 10,000 participants competent in the IT and Internet business passed through the foundation's programs. On average, only about 100 projects per year, or 200-300 people, receive seed investments from the IIDF. Program participants who have not received investments but have gained invaluable experience are ready to pass it on to younger colleagues or even join their start-ups. The new service is designed in the shortest time to connect these people with each other, taking into account their specialization.
According to the FRIA survey, more than 90% of the projects are looking for an employee or co-founder, and almost 100% of them are ready to use the online search service.
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“The project is designed to help solve one of the main problems of the venture capital ecosystem - a critical shortage of qualified employees and potential partners for startups, which makes starting up startups and their products more difficult and delaying. According to our observations, some projects are not being launched at all - and largely due to the fact that they did not manage to put together a strong team, ” said Sergei Skrypnikov, Deputy Director of the IIDF for Communications, at RUSBASE.
CoFoundIt.ru is conceived as an infrastructure project, so it will be free for startups and applicants, he adds. However, over time, there may appear paid functions.
Western counterparts of the service are resources such as CofoundersLab and Founder2be . There are registered Russian experts who want to participate in international startups. The Russian competitor of the FRIA project, Cofounder.ru , was launched in 2011. However, this site is poor and the base, and the implementation, the participants believe IIDF.
The service will allow young startups to receive support from residents and graduates of IIDF. In 2014 alone, more than 10,000 participants competent in the IT and Internet business passed through the foundation's programs. On average, only about 100 projects per year, or 200-300 people, receive seed investments from the IIDF. Program participants who have not received investments but have gained invaluable experience are ready to pass it on to younger colleagues or even join their start-ups. The new service is designed in the shortest time to connect these people with each other, taking into account their specialization.
According to the FRIA survey, more than 90% of the projects are looking for an employee or co-founder, and almost 100% of them are ready to use the online search service.
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“The project is designed to help solve one of the main problems of the venture capital ecosystem - a critical shortage of qualified employees and potential partners for startups, which makes starting up startups and their products more difficult and delaying. According to our observations, some projects are not being launched at all - and largely due to the fact that they did not manage to put together a strong team, ” said Sergei Skrypnikov, Deputy Director of the IIDF for Communications, at RUSBASE.
CoFoundIt.ru is conceived as an infrastructure project, so it will be free for startups and applicants, he adds. However, over time, there may appear paid functions.
Western counterparts of the service are resources such as CofoundersLab and Founder2be . There are registered Russian experts who want to participate in international startups. The Russian competitor of the FRIA project, Cofounder.ru , was launched in 2011. However, this site is poor and the base, and the implementation, the participants believe IIDF.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/294746/
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