Demo site with 36 excursions that received a 15,000 dollars grant
HelloGuide.ru is an idea of startup for finding Russian-speaking guides around the world, a resident of the “Skolkovo Startup Academy — 12″ program at Russia’s main innovation center Skolkovo with 282,000 visitors on its site.
As editor-in-chief of the project, I helped its founder to graduate from the academy and to win first place in the IT ideas competition at the country’s largest Startup Village conference and to receive a 15,000 dollars grant. To accomplish this, I recruited more than 10 guides in three main tourism cities in Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Sochi, and designed 36 excursions on the site, which I also created on my own in an online builder without a code. The guides included people who had never given tours and/or worked with similar projects. I also remotely organized two real excursions with the fellow street and travel photographers. The founder used photos from them to show how the project will work during the Investors Day at the Academy.
The demo site has not survived, because the project didn’t materialize for reasons of low funding, but it helped the founder find an idea for his next business — Take Charge powerbank rental stations. In 2021, this project ranked 30th among the 100 most profitable startups in Russia according to the Russian version of Inc. magazine. Read more about his amazing journey.
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Mar — Jun 2017
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