Project Support
Business-accelerator “Pulsar Venture” provides services for project accompaniment. Our company strives to provide authors of innovation projects and team members of science-intensive organizations with the possibility for creation, development and commercialization of technologies, including:
- Expertise
Carrying out expertise of innovation projects, providing for attraction of specialists of partner organizations as experts.
- Mentoring
Organization of mentoring (counseling) of innovation projects teams, providing for attraction of specialists of parter organizations as mentors (counselors).
- Education
Organizing education and/or development of the competencies of innovation projects teams within the framework of the educational course of partner organizations, as well as development institutions of local, federal and international scale.
- Outsourcing
Providing services for innovation projects, providing for attraction of specialists from partner organizations as associate contractors
- Investments
Attraction of investments for innovation projects within the framework of investment programs of partner organizations, as well as investors of local, federal and international scale.
Accompaniment of projects is carried out in accordance with the development of companies according to the stages.
This process is a stage-by-stage with gradual decrease of risks and allows for startup to faster relate their decisions to the market, without additional costs and decrease in quality, as well as to protect investor from high risks.
Each stage has its own specific goals, which the company should achieve in order to go to the next stage.
Stage «Idea»
Two components allow to turn technological idea into business-idea. First – convenience at use – comes from understanding of consumer problems and how these problems are connected with technology on personal level. Second – scalability of the problem and its solution. This allows author of the technology to find the potential market. On the stage of appearance of the idea financing occurs, as a rule, through grants, special meaning is put specifically n technology, but not on the entire business-solution.
Stage «Concept»
At the stage of the concept development preliminary planning is carried out. This time, when business-opportunities are estimated, evidence of the survivability of the idea is substantiated and project realization strategy is developed. Preliminary offer of the size of financing and business-plan – most important documents, appearing as a result of the realization of this stage.
Stage «Planning»
At the stage “planning” main ideas, incorporated at the stage of concept development, are worked in greater detail and more deeply. Here more information is required than at the previous stage, since the financing was received for development of the detailed business-plan of adaptation of the suggested development or solution. At this stage risks are uncertainties are detected and estimated, confirm realizability of all aspects of the program. Main document, developed at this stage – detailed business-plan. In the focus of financial questions is determining the volume of financing to carry out due diligence.
Stage «Development»
Within the framework of the phrase “development” real work on the product or technological solution is initiated, aimed at gradual improvement of the properties of the product. At this stage realized events, specified in the detailed business-plan at the planning stage. Preliminary goals are specified, formulated at the stage of planning. At this stage project team takes on responsibility of developing clear and understandable plan of product marketing.
Stage «Adaptation»
Main goal of the phrase “adaptation” – presentation of innovation product to the limited number of side organizations and consumers. Limited scale of the adaptation allows to probe and test product properties, as well as the program of further development of the project, prepare sales channels, services and deliveries. Within the framework of this stage estimation of the readiness of consumers for use of the suggested good or service.
Stage “Growth” and “Exit”
«Growth» and «Exit» of the investor are sometimes viewed as different stages. Growth frequently assumes increase of the term of wide use of the good, if its adaptation stage and its realization, as well as the market are scalable. New technologies are usually characterized by the presence of the “gap” or breakthrough point, upon achieving of which it is necessary for the company to change strategy of the introduction of technologies.
In such situation, it is feasible to perform sale of the company to the strategic investor, who possess significant work experience on the target market and the necessary opportunities for increasing production scale. At the stages “growth” and “exit” company strategy may assume merger or acquisition, IPO or realization of other financial mechanisms necessary for further growth.