Report from Bynet

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Since the conference was described on the site. bynet. 2. org.

If this event is one of the biggest in Belarus, we can only imagine what they are talking in small conferences and seminars.

Before I and our. CTO. attended this conference are familiar with the Belarusian internet we particularly nebyli. Yet dare to visit this event. There I was carrying a report on startups and investments. As it turned out later, investments in Belarus say four-digit sum, on this later.

It's funny that in all. rush charges, we have forgotten to pay attention to reports that the organizers had prepared for us, naively believing that it will be the usual conference startups. Throughout the week there was no ticket, but the day before departure at the box office, they appeared. Half day to get ready, and we are already in train in anticipation of a great party and travel in general.

It all started perfectly - there are sandwiches, chat and drink tea out of glass jars with metal coasters under the rhythmic sound of the wheels - it's just romance. In conjunction with our traveling interesting conversationalist - Belarusian, we have a nice chat, discussing all the differences and similarities of our beautiful girls, and from beer to politics and economics. And then, when subjects have been completed and we began to prepare for sleep our valiant Ukrainian customs officers after a standard test items were found in some of our other Belarusian device that allegedly cost more than you could carry just like that in the bag without documents.

The customs officer asked to complete a passenger declaration and fill in the column ... Once our companion counted all the cash to customs officer (approximately $ 1,000 and several thousand hryvnia) mood pograntsy clearly risen, and he said: This is nonsense you are traveling with you is worth more than EUR 200, we have landed with a train for what you have declared . Dr.. and m. n. Then they retreated into the hallway and a couple of minutes it was decided to sum ​​to 200. USD.

All for some reason do not like the Ukrainian customs, personally, because we do not understand why such a negative attitude.

Arriving in Minsk, we had to kill 4:00, t. to. We do not know the city, and had nothing to do in the city at 6 am, we found a room at the station increased comfort, and decided to sleep there. But that, we failed, because of the uncomfortable chairs felts with increased convenience, toli from unknown smell, but somehow I could not sleep.

Enough to enjoy the benefits of increased comfort us, even more worn out than after the train went to the party. On the way to the venue, looking at the cleanliness of the city just unreal, and all sorts of interesting things on the way we were sullen. ' Sullenly ' - it's because were afraid to smile, m. to. it can be seen as a mockery of the opposition samiznaetekem. Long did not dare to smoke outside, t. to. did not know how this can be regarded, local authorities, were mostly flat, almost system, breathed the same time, not deep. ( The train our Belarusian friend warned us that we need to be careful and take care of yourself, t. to. for trash, with the loud laughter in the street, on suspicion of dealing with opposition personalities we can put no proceedings).

We got to the venue without difficulty, registered. In the dining room shustrenko breakfast - a pleasant surprise price, everything was cheap, and quickly ran to hear reports.

Impressions of the conference:.
'International ' Conference Bynet 2. 3 proved to be extremely international. Everything (everything ) reports were submitted by the authors in terms of the Belarusian Internet. We even began to doubt the definition of the word ' international '.
To dispel their doubts encyclopedia we could not, t. to. at the conference there was no access to ( there were no (no )).

Amused by the interesting questions from the audience, had a good laugh, for example, the question to the speaker with the report ' The results of the Belarusian internet users ':.

On the slide:. today in Belarus, there are ~ 3.2 million Internet users.
FROM THE AUDIENCE: 3.2 million users - is a year or a month?.
o_0.
SPEAKER: I am not an expert in this field and to answer this question difficult to.

The girl was reading a report on the collection of statistics about the users on the site of the customer with a tool. Google. analytics. The entire report was about how cool google tool provides.

They make statements on the basis of this tool for $ 300 a month.

The question to Alexander Meleshchenko, a business incubator BSUIR on ...
SPEAKER: We invest our exciting projects, provide them with support and are willing to invest as much as 4- digit amounts in startups!.
FROM THE AUDIENCE: 4- digit or 9 000USD?.
SPEAKER: Yes, we expect to return to the % of the shares of the company for future. But mostly people come to us and ask for money to start-ups and in fact they need skilled care. For example, if a startup business model. B. 2. B. means it only needs to pitch for 40,000 thousand companies!.

About incubator BSUIR impressed at all funny.

In April, I attended a seminar in Moscow, where he performed from David Varokvir Mengruva. So the report of colleagues from Belarus, something reminded the report by David. And struck by the words: Be prepared to hear very often. NO. If it was a Belarusian staratapah and investors, we both realized that the majority of their investors and representatives of BSUIR speak English.

It is also amused by the section ' Startup Presentation ', that's just not clear to whom the presentation. Investors in the hall did not seem to be ( not counting BSUIR ), and were left up to 20 people.

Smile startup. qb.

Question about startup. qb. by. :.
SPEAKER: start-up qb ( Kyuubi ), which I want to introduce born last Friday, and was implemented for the week.
FROM THE AUDIENCE: How many people in your team?.
SPEAKER: two - me and Kyuubi:).

No offense to the participants - all very raw startups and weaknesses.

In short, people are talking only about Bynet. He was speaker of the. Adobe. who presented their products. With it, of course, can be found on the manufacturer's website.

All who read the reports simply tell what they are doing their companies. New we have not heard, and were struck by the themes. All topics that were raised with us a long time past stage.

As my report that some people in a small amount of 200k, and that in this business earn on the sale of the company entered into a stupor. But organizers said the Belarusian start-ups are not suitable.

Conference Report:.
Home {.
Annoyed, we sat in the hall, and it is hoped that someone will tell something useful and if you're lucky and the new.
The end }.

On the way back Ukrainian border has surprised us again slightly. The expected submission of the customs was not, but it was an interesting presentation of the passport control. Four foreigners (they were extremely diverse: some were from Saudi Arabia, one from Norway and one from Japan ) fell for abuse. guys Pts. spoke Russian badly (it may have been one of the violations) were traveling to Ukraine on a tourist visa, BUT! . Well, in principle, of course! . Attackers would have to land, and somehow the conductor, too, was involved - she handed out immigration forms, and ( oh no! ) Do not monitor their fill! . Attackers - athletes familiar with lists of services guards, paid for their services, and everything fell into place.

total. Had a great weekend, especially remembered for submission to the train and walk through a sterile clean Minsk.

P. S.

The organization of the event:.

It is difficult to name an event organized by the. Assembly Hall with a stage. Come and listen to what is said from the scene. Although it was pretty neat, each speaker welcomed the applause. Now, if the program has been....

Hardly a year later, we remember, whether we were at a conference in Minsk, or were simply in Minsk.

oh yeah! .