Microsoft has launched an educational entrepreneurship program in software development - “Start in Garage”
Ltd. "Microsoft Rus" has initiated and supported the establishment of educational programs for entrepreneurship in the field of software development «Start in Garage». The course was organized by RUSSEE Consulting and ABRT Venture Fund.
The Start in Garage program is an intensive four-day course addressed to companies planning to launch a new software product or service. The course is based on materials from leading world business schools, including MIT Sloan School of Managment, Harvard Business School and many others.
“The Start in Garage program enables its participants to communicate with industry colleagues, see and discuss current issues of the young software business, exchange experience, and build relationships with potential partners,” said Sergey Eremin, Project Coordinator for Technology Entrepreneurship Development, Department strategic technologies, Microsoft Russia. “It is designed to help companies choose the right direction at the start and take the right steps in their development, using Russian and international experience.”
Key players in the software business participated in creating the Start in Garage program, such as Michael Kuzumano (professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, best-selling author of Microsoft Secrets and The Business of Software, consultant to over 50 leading global corporations) and Ratmir Timashev (founder of companies Aelita Software, VEEAM Software, President, ABRT Venture Fund).
All instructors in the program have practical business experience in the field of software development and are leading experts in this field. A significant part of the Start in Garage course will be devoted to discussing the problems that software companies face in the process of growth, successful and unsuccessful examples of their solution, including the analysis of international Internet and software projects.
The Start in Garage program will be implemented in 6 regions of Russia: in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Kazan and Tomsk. All program participants will receive certificates attesting to training.
The nearest course will take place in Moscow on May 18-19, May 25-26 (4 days) 2007. For more information about the Start in Garage program and conditions of participation, click here .
source: iXBT