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ПСМ Фондација/ YES Foundation Ljupco Despotovski

ПСМ Фондација/ YES Foundation Ljupco Despotovski. Agenda. Youth Entrepreneurial Service (YES) Foundation Services ICT business incubator Tenant companies Results Current projects Success stories Key problems. YES Foundation. Target group, young people 18-30 years old. YES Foundation.

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ПСМ Фондација/ YES Foundation Ljupco Despotovski

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  1. ПСМ Фондација/YES FoundationLjupco Despotovski

  2. Agenda • Youth Entrepreneurial Service (YES) Foundation • Services • ICT business incubator • Tenant companies • Results • Current projects • Success stories • Key problems

  3. YES Foundation • Target group, young people 18-30 years old.

  4. YES Foundation • Unique concept for entrepreneurship elevation • Three components who turn ideas into successful businesses

  5. YES Concept

  6. This shall never happen to you on trainings held by YES What do we offer? Interactive character (exercising practical examples and simulations) Trainings in entrepreneurship- (being an entrepreneur is a cool thing)

  7. Trainings in entrepreneurship 2008/2009 • CISCO Entrepreneurship Institute, October/November 2008. • Tailor-made trainings for tenant companies in the incubator • Domestic moderators • Foreign teachers and moderators (GB, USA, Norway) • European business competence license EBCL • Skill Soft trainings

  8. Business plan competition • Competition where you have the opportunity to develop your skills in different domains, paramount in starting a business • Fazes of the business plan competition: 1. Short description of the business idea 2. Business plan

  9. YES business incubator, objective We urge to attract young ICT people, train them, increase their business knowledge, connect them to the right business partners, so they could compete on the global market and help ICT become a leading industry in Macedonia.

  10. YES business incubator Offices and location • 600 m2space(21 office) • Average size of an office is 16м² • 2 conference rooms • Municipality of Gazi Baba, dormitory “Stiv Naumov” • 15 kmfrom the Skopje airport Alexander the Great, at the exit of Skopje.

  11. Consultations considering the business idea and its business potential Computer access Network connections CISCO Entrepreneurship Institute, “Starting a business” 15 lessons Pre-incubation free of charge services of the business incubator

  12. Services provided by the business incubator • Modernly equipped offices significantly less expensive than commercial prices • Office price includes: water and power expenses, internet, phone line, parking space, insurance and object security • Financial support • Possibility for credit line (up to 15 000€) • Possibility for grant fund (up to 1 500€)

  13. Free of charge usage of common space: kitchen and conference room Free of charge parking space Free of charge consulting services for all aspects of starting and doing business Services by the business incubator

  14. Services by the business incubator • Administrative, financial, marketing, law and human resource management, services • Networking with: • Similar entrepreneurs, suppliers , investment funds • Networking with potential clients from the local, regional and global market • Promotion of tenant-companies • 24/7 access to the incubator premises

  15. Results

  16. Results

  17. Results

  18. Current projects CISCO entrepreneurship institute • Partners: USAIDMLGA, municipality of Gazi Babaand CEED • Implemented by: YES Foundation • Target group: young unemployed aged 18-30, from municipality of Gazi Baba • Objective: training of young unemployed people on how to write a business plan and start their own business

  19. Current projects YES/CRB-SEEU incubator in Tetovo • Partners: SEEU, CRB and FIOOM • Implemented by: YES Foundation, SEEU, CRBand FIOOM • Target group: young unemployed aged 18-30 from Tetovo and Gostivar region • Objective stimulation and support of newly start-ups by youth not only in SEEU, but in the entire region of Tetovo and Gostivar

  20. Current projects • Innovation: won the project for the Government of Republic of Macedonia, as part of the Governmental campaign “Macedonia, country of information technology” to organize trainings for 7854 citizens, for basic computer usage, office packages and internet usage.

  21. Success stories • Moments Dooel organizes the event “Annual rewards for best practices in municipalities in Macedonia”in cooperation with USAIDMLGA, ZELSand Europe Council

  22. Key problems • Time-related – lack of continuity in financing • Quality of management and offered services– above all depends on the selection of management, the incubator manager • Possession/ownership, risk of conflict of interests regarding objectives, bureaucracy, time loss in negotiation with differing partners

  23. Contact YES Foundation Ljupco Despotovski 02 3103 660 ljupco@yesincubator.org.mk www.yesincubator.org.mk

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