Startup Grind Dnipro #8 with Anna Petrova

Fireside Chat with Anna Petrova in May - Female Fouders Month

Anna is Evangelist of entrepreneurship development in Ukraine, founder of the first center for entrepreneurs Startup Ukraine, ideologist of the Selfmade Woman community.

This young woman is on the list of Forbes 30 to 30 and in 28 years old got on the cover of Forbes.

Even at school Anna Petrova had a dream: to become president. Reflecting on how to implement it, she realized that she most of all likes to learn and organize the learning process. And as a result, three years ago she became president - her own company. In order to start an educational project for entrepreneurs StartUp Ukraine, Petrova spent $ 1000. Beginning entrepreneurs, she notes, do not always think about profits - this is their biggest problem. To solve it helps the course in StartUp Ukraine: a person comes with an idea and for 13 000 UAH and three months of training turns the idea into a product ready for market entry, with a business plan and marketing strategy.

After StartUp Ukraine appeared the coworking of Kyiv Working - a place where people can not only study at its author's courses, but also work after them. The idea of ​​this project Anna peeped in Vienna. For three years of existence, the total turnover of the two projects amounted to about 20 million hryvnia. Anna has a dozen projects in her work, including the educational for women Selfmade Woman, which she is actively developing, as well as business breakfasts and the business camp Made in Ukraine.