Max Skibinsky is serial entrepreneur, angel investor & start-up mentor for 17 years in Silicon Valley. He bootstrapped his first consulting startup in 90ties, working with clients such as Netscape, AOL, Celera Genomics and Electronic Arts. After years of working inside many startups and few bigger companies Max jumped into world of web 2.0 innovation, social networks and online communities. He founded Hive7, one of the very first social gaming startups which in following years redefined the world of traditional entertainment. In 2010 Hive7 was sold to Playdom which in turn was sold to Disney few months later. Most recently Max co-founded Inporia that secured investments from YCombinator, Ron Conway, NEA, Clearstone, 500 Startups. When not designing, recruiting, brainstorming, advising, and building startups Max can be found flying in general vicinity of Palo Alto airspace.
Aleksandra Markova is an associate at techVenture – a seed accelerator & startup team building company. Before that she worked with ReframeIt - a social annotation tool. She has a diverse entrepreneurial experience from leading the US market entry for the luxury furniture company Oasis Bagni to co-founding Transparency for development – a social incubator program for micro entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. During her studies at the Moscow State Linguistic University she led the Russia communication for Heidelberg Cement – a global Fortune 500 company. Aleksandra believes that Moscow has the potential of becoming a future center of global innovation & entrepreneurship. With this blog she wants to contribute to making this happen. Follow her @Lady1337
Naida Volkova is a professional in the field of marketing communications and public relations. She received her education and work experience in Russia and the U.S. Naida has worked both on the agency and client sides by creating campaigns to promote products and services that changed our lives for the better. Naida’s responsibilities included development of PR concepts, planning and implementation of educational, charitable, and promotional projects, writing and editing various marketing materials and promotional texts, work with the media. Naida has successfully completed numerous projects for start-up companies (startups – Carbonflow), large corporations (Panasonic Corporation, UPS, Sesame Street), and for non-profits (Rotary International, Teach with Africa). Obtained knowledge and skills, meeting interesting people prompted Naida to share her observations and thoughts with the readers of this blog. Follow her @NaidaV
