Our Journey:

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Our Journey
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• Start-up Picnic Purpose Principles
• to build competencies and confidence for
  successful
• entrepreneurship to live value-based business
• to share knowledge around our key questions.
• Trust Confidentiality Having fun
• Curiosity Give-give-give Cultural
  respect
• Open minds Open hearts
• Constructive Communication Generate
  vs Consume

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We invited
Start-up Picnic Guests

• Bliss Browne, President of Imagine Chicago, USA.
• Stine Arensbach Szlavik, Co-partner of the Bigger
  Picture, Denmark.
• Eleanor Whitley, Head of the hosting team at Hub
  Kings Cross, United Kingdom.
• We also were blessed to get support from
• Ole Qvist-Sørensen, founder of the Bigger
  Picture
• Jonathan Robinson, co-founder of the Hub London
• Maria Scordialos and Sarah Whiteley, co-founders
  of the Axladitsa-Avatakia Learning Center in
  Greece
• Toke Moeller, master practitioner from the Art of
  Hosting Global Community and InterChange.

And after regular skype-calls with international
friends, weekly meetings with the team, we
gathered in Kyiv 2 days before the event to
design Start-up Picnic. The process was fun. It
was learning entrepreneurial journey for all of
us.
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Profile of 50 Participants
Start-up Picnic Participants Profile
Cities Kyiv, Kharkiv, Vynnytsya, Zaporizhzhya,
Lviv, Moscow, Volgograd
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Start-up Picnic Flow of 3 Days
Based on the Appreciative Inquiry Formula
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Start-up Picnic Flow of 3 Days (Cont.)

• DAY 1
• A. 1000 to 1145
• Introductions and agenda setting
• B. 1200 to 1345
• Knowledge Mapping
• C. 1500 to 1630
• Appreciative Inquiry Training Practice
• D. 1645 to 1800
• Visual Language Training Practice
• 1930 Secrets of Kyiv Walking Tour

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Start-up Picnic Flow of 3 Days (Cont.)

• DAY 3
• A. 1000 to 1145
• Learning Accelerator and Reflections
• Wisdom panel What I wish I knew when I getting
  started?, QA
• B.1200 to 1345
• Open Space Round 2, projects action groups
• C.1500 to 1630
• Action Planning
• Visual Journey of 3 days
• D. 1630 to 1700
• Closing Evaluation

• DAY 2
• A. 1000 to 1145
• Vision and value-based business design
• Metaphors of the Mother and Organic Farming
  (Creative Loneliness, care for the Land, the
  blueprint)
• B.1200 to 1345
• Strategic communications (effective
  story-telling, media strategies and pitching).
• A story of the Hub
• C.1500 to 1630
• Imagine Exercise Collective Intelligence Game
• D. 1645 to 1800
• Open Space Hosting and Convening of Round 1
  discussion groups
• 1900 Open Doors Picnic

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Final touches
before start
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Rainbow of ideas
As entrepreneur, think from the Bigger Picture
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Visualizing the dream or hope
Btw, what is YOUR shape of a dream or hope?
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Drum groove, improvisation by Walentine (center)
Co.
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Qs for Personal Learning Journal
What are the questions or key challenges that you
brought here?
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Thats how knowledge mapping looks like
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Creative loneliness is your companion in giving
birth to a child, or new idea, project or new
business
Organic farming is when you harvest fruits, and
dont spoil the soil, but keep it productive for
many years
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Visual Language tells more than words
Generating collective intelligence accelerating
learning
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Step 1, 2, 3 into the Future. Imagine yourself,
and go for it!
Its not a minor thing in biz, think again!
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Hey, lets go into the Open Space, huh?
How do we express the vision for our business in
a way which attracts investments by others? by
Stine
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Bliss Browne from Imagine Chicago
Eleanor Whitley from the Hub Kings Cross
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Open Space Sessions on Topics that bring on
Passion Responsibility
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Open Doors Picnic. A great opportunity for
informal networking and communication.
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Briefly Three Days on One Slide
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Start-up Picnic Participants Feedback
Ive set the network of talented new friends
What have you got from Start-up Picnic?
I take away enormous change inside (you were my
catalyst)
Ive got inspiration to start my own business
I realized there were wonderful people in
Ukraine whore able to push economics and improve
life in this country.
Ive got stronger faith in myself
I got support of advanced, creative
entrepreneurial people of Kyiv (Ukraine)
Now I envision my future and see greater
responsibility for my actions today
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Start-up Picnic Hub Kyiv Team
Olga Romanyuk To hold the Start-up Picnic was a
tremendous inspiration for ourselves - we're on
the right path! I hope we properly delivered the
idea of "living value-based business" to those,
who were truly in search of it. And we
will surely see each other in the future again!
Yuliya Filippovska We were totally inspired to
make something new, which hadnt been done
before. It made all the difference, and it was a
big challenge. It was a good chance to learn
together and get entrepreneurial experience when
you try to sell the value of your idea to your
future participants for 120 USD before the event,
when its only in your imagination. This is the
beautiful load that entrepreneurs carry when they
bring in innovations. And it was fun!
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Start-up Picnic Hub Kyiv Team (Cont.)
Anna Smyrnova Start-up Picnic was the first such
experience for Hub Kyiv in realization of the Hub
idea in Ukraine. We really wished that these
three days help entrepreneurs realize their
potential and feel support in the implementation
of their ideas and pursuits, We tried to share
with you our experience, ideas and inspiration
but it appeared that we got great inspiration and
ideas from you that we are really grateful for.
Owing to the Picnic we got new supply of energy
to realize our ideas and we really hope to have a
chance to share our progress with you.
Viktoriya Dzyuba What amazed me about the
Hub-Kyiv's Start-Up Picnic was how the efforts of
many people, greatly dispersed geographically,
culminated in the event that benefited a
multitude of experienced and would-be entrepreneur
s in Ukraine. And all of this on a shoe-string
budget! It is possible to work on enthusiasm then!
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We are grateful for support from
Start-up Picnic Our thanks

• ALL ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS also
• Aleksandr Lyadov, Dekarta Capital
• Denis Dovgopolyi, BayView Innovations
  Investors Day
• Yuri Boyko, Silicon Valley, CA
• Andrey Fedorov, ???? ?????
• Volodymyr Vorobey, PPV Knowledge Networks
• Arseniy Finberg, Interesniy Kyiv
• Anna Iurchenko (wall-photo)
• Dmitriy Vandenko (photo)
• Sergey Fedoryk (photo)
• Natalka Moroz (full-time mom)
• Roman Makukhin (MOA Ukraine, organic farming)
• Ivan Prokopenko (photo, support, fun)

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Start-up Picnic laid the ground for the Hub Kyiv
Start-up Picnic Conclusions

• Hub Kyiv is
• Network of innovative and socially active
  entrepreneurs with ideas and businesses for more
  than profit.
• Space to meet, learn, exchange ideas, knowledge
  and tools, investigate opportunities, make things
  happen, and have fun.
• Movement to see the best of Ukraine, and bring
  more innovative good here, with working business
  models.

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Hub Kyiv Next Steps
Start-up Picnic Conclusions (Cont.)

• Invite people to join our Hub Kyiv team
• Hold monthly or bi-monthly interactive meetings
  on topics and questions that matter most to
  share knowledge and experience, to strengthen the
  network, and get inspired
• Invite interesting people/friends from Ukraine,
  CIS, and from abroad
• Partner with great entrepreneurial projects
  initiatives in Ukraine and CIS to bring it all
  forward
• Bring the vision of the Hub Kyiv into reality

Please, keep an eye on our news, and invitations
that are coming soon!
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Start-up Picnic Join us
How could you become part of Hub Kyiv? There
are three circles of involvement
Core Team
Members
Contributors
To learn more, please contact us
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Start-up Picnic Links, Resources, Contacts

• Photos
• http//picasaweb.google.com/hubinua/StartUpPicnic
• http//picasaweb.google.com/pavel.bashmakov/Startu
  ppicnic2009
• http//picasaweb.google.com/hubinua/StartUpPicnicI
  vanProkopenkoSPics
• Materials
• Hub Story (see attached)
• Hub Mentality (see attached)
• Appreciative Inquiry Questions on Partnership and
  New Hires (shared by Bliss Browne)
• Our contacts
• http//hub.in.ua/
• http//blog.hub.in.ua/
• picnic_at_hub.in.ua
• http//twitter.com/hubkyiv
• Our groups
• Facebook
• LinkedIn