LAUNCH
Build an accelerator
Value: Daria will build a support system for your target businesses. be it a business accelerator, an internal incubator, a venture building company or a full-blown startup hub. She will set the business model, the company architecture, the operational team and the brand.
Relevant experience: Daria has co-founded and managed to success Space Shack, a startup hub and a coworking space in Berlin. During the last 3 years she has designed and implemented 5 accelerators, and supported the product development and implementation of 20+ programs of various types.
Build a community
Value: A strong community is a necessary prerequisite for finding passionate team members, early adopters for your products, and experts. The community can be set for your existing business or a new spin-off.
Relevant experience: Daria has built a few communities around highly varying topics. The most prominent examples are a community of coworking spaces for Coworking Festival Berlin and a community of blockchain founders and investors Blockchain Pirates.
Build a company
Value: If you want to expand to another market, launch a new product or a feature, Daria will support your launch as an entrepreneur in residence or as a launch consultant. Her services include business modelling, team configuration, process architecture, market-product alignment, fundraising, and stakeholder relations (incl. investor relations).
Relevant experience: Daria has not only built a few companies from an idea to a successful realisation (Space Shack, Coworking Festival, Blockchain Pirates), but also has mentored, advised or trained 700+ (yes, that is a real number) founders.
RE-SKILL
Course building
Value: Daria focuses on entrepreneurship and business growth related courses. She designs courses, sets up curricula, and helps to source an onboard a team. Daria is one of few entrepreneurship educators who has hands-on experience in founding companies.
Relevant experience: Daria has designed an 80-hour Startup Crash Course for Technology University Berlin in 2015. She has proceeded to be the head of the course till today, counting 10 batches and 200 students so far. Daria has designed courses for Frankfurt Business School and Stanford University.
Up-skilling your team
Value: Digitalisation and globalisation have made re-skilling a
necessity in most companies. However teams often fail to keep up to the fast paced changes. The solution is up-skilling of competencies and soft skills instead of just re-skilling. Daria can set up-skilling programs for your team based on individual profiling and tailoring of methods.
Relevant experience: Daria is working on a Future of Work startup project with a special focus on up-skilling and lifelong learning. She is an experienced educator and educational system builder.
BACKSTORY
Multi-dimensional
Multi-dimensional
Multi-dimensional
My story includes working in art, nonprofit, corporate, startup and high education worlds. I am not a stranger to both a bird-view and a down-to-earth approaches to business. I have Degrees in International Economic Relations (Bachelor), Economics (Master) and Business Administration (MBA).
International
Multi-dimensional
Multi-dimensional
My current location is Berlin. I have lived in 3 very different countries: Russia, USA, and Germany. I have worked in Europe, Asia, Africa, and LatAm. I have both working and training experience with 40+ nationalities.
Doer
Multi-dimensional
Doer
I have initiated, founded, built, launched and managed dozens of projects. Starting from my own startups to university courses to accelerators. I build stuff and do it fast.