Starting, running and growing new IT (...)
summary
Data-driven tour of Russia’s IT scene with numbers, examples and pitfalls: 60 million online Russians and a predicted 78 million monthly users by 2015, 1 million IT workers, PHP leads paid up to $15k/month (avg ~$5k), venture funding rising from $154M (2009) to ~ $1B (2012). Shows Skolkovo and regional tech parks, grants and accelerators, warns of regulation and corruption, highlights products that worked — Displair air-display and Yota dual‑screen phone — and says copycat models no longer scale.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and inspiration
- 5:30Russian IT market overview
- 9:30Starting IT business in Russia
- 13:23Government support and tech hubs
- 18:26Growing your IT company globally
- 24:11Successful Russian tech companies
- 27:02Creativity and innovation in IT
- 33:37Q&A and closing remarks
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