1. Our Journey:

2. Start-up Picnic | Purpose & Principles:
• to build competencies and confidence for successful
entrepreneurship to live value-based business
• to share knowledge around our key questions.
*Trust* *Confidentiality* *Having fun*
*Curiosity* *Give-give-give* *Cultural respect*
*Open minds* *Open hearts*
* Constructive Communication* *Generate vs Consume*

3. Start-up Picnic | Guests:
We invited:
• Bliss Browne, President of Imagine Chicago, USA.
• Stine Arensbach Szlavik, Co-partner of the Bigger Picture, Denmark.
• Eleanor Whitley, Head of the hosting team at Hub Kings Cross, United
Kingdom.
• We also were blessed to get support from:
– Ole Qvist-Sørensen, founder of the Bigger Picture;
– Jonathan Robinson, co-founder of the Hub London;
– Maria Scordialos and Sarah Whiteley, co-founders of the Axladitsa-
Avatakia Learning Center in Greece;
– Toke Moeller, master practitioner from the Art of Hosting Global
Community and InterChange.
And after regular skype-calls with international friends, weekly meetings with the team,
we gathered in Kyiv 2 days before the event to design Start-up Picnic. The process was
fun. It was learning entrepreneurial journey for all of us.

4. Start-up Picnic | Participants Profile:
Profile of 50+ Participants
Spheres Key Challenges to Resolve
IT 39% Business development 31%
Education 14% Self-realization 17%
Entertainment 11% Teamwork 17%
FMCG 3% Sales 8%
Décor/construction 6% Finance/investments 8%
Communications 6% Marketing 6%
Real Estate 6% HR 6%
TBD 6%
Cities: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Vynnytsya, Zaporizhzhya, Lviv, Moscow, Volgograd

5. Start-up Picnic | Flow of 3 Days:
Imagine
DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3
Understand
Create
Based on the Appreciative Inquiry Formula

6. Start-up Picnic | Flow of 3 Days (Cont.):
DAY 1:
• A. 10:00 to 11:45
– Introductions and agenda
setting
• B. 12:00 to 13:45
– Knowledge Mapping
• C. 15:00 to 16:30
– Appreciative Inquiry
Training & Practice
• D. 16:45 to 18:00
– Visual Language Training &
Practice
• 19:30 Secrets of Kyiv Walking
Tour

7. Start-up Picnic | Flow of 3 Days (Cont.):
DAY 2: DAY 3:
• A. 10:00 to 11:45 • A. 10:00 to 11:45
– Vision and value-based business
design – Learning Accelerator and
– Metaphors of the Mother and Reflections
Organic Farming (Creative – Wisdom panel: “What I wish I knew
Loneliness, care for the Land, & the when I getting started?”, Q&A
blueprint)
• B.12:00 to 13:45 • B.12:00 to 13:45
– Strategic communications (effective – Open Space Round 2, projects &
story-telling, media strategies and action groups
pitching).
• C.15:00 to 16:30
– A story of the Hub
• C.15:00 to 16:30 – Action Planning
– Imagine Exercise & Collective – Visual Journey of 3 days
Intelligence Game • D. 16:30 to 17:00
• D. 16:45 to 18:00
– Closing Evaluation
– Open Space Hosting and
Convening of Round 1 discussion
groups
• 19:00 Open Doors Picnic

8. Final touches …
… before start

9. Rainbow of ideas
As entrepreneur,
think from the Bigger
Picture

10. Visualizing the
dream or hope
Btw, what is YOUR
shape of a dream or
hope?

11. Drum groove,
improvisation by
Walentine (center)
& Co.

12. Qs for Personal
Learning Journal
What are the questions or
key challenges that you
brought here?

13. That’s how “knowledge
mapping” looks like

15. Creative loneliness is
your companion in
giving birth to a child,
or new idea, project or
new business
Organic farming – is when you
harvest fruits, and don’t spoil
the soil, but keep it productive
for many years

16. Visual Language
tells more than
words
Generating collective
intelligence &
accelerating learning

17. Step 1, 2, 3 – into the
Future. Imagine
yourself, and go for it!
It’s not a minor thing in
biz, think again!

18. Hey, let’s go into the
Open Space, huh?
How do we express
the vision for our
business in a way
which attracts
investments by
others? – by Stine

19. Bliss Browne from
Imagine Chicago
Eleanor Whitley from the Hub
Kings Cross

20. Open Space Sessions on
Topics that bring on
Passion & Responsibility

21. Open Doors Picnic.
A great opportunity for
informal networking and
communication.

22. Briefly: Three Days on One Slide

23. Start-up Picnic | Participants’ Feedback:
“I’ve set the network
“What have you got from Start-up Picnic?” of talented new
friends”
“I’ve got inspiration to start “I take away
my own business” enormous change
inside (you were
my catalyst)”
“I’ve got “I realized
stronger faith in there were
myself” wonderful
people in
Ukraine who’re
able to push
economics and
improve life in
“Now I this country.”
envision my I got support of
future and advanced, creative
see greater entrepreneurial people
responsibility of Kyiv (Ukraine)
for my
actions
today”

24. Start-up Picnic | Hub Kyiv Team:
Olga Romanyuk: To hold the Start-up Picnic
was a tremendous inspiration for ourselves -
we're on the right path! I hope we properly
delivered the idea of "living
value-based business" to those, who were
truly in search of it. And we will
surely see each other in the future again!
Yuliya Filippovska: We were totally
inspired to make something new, which
hadn’t been done before. It made all the
difference, and it was a big challenge. It
was a good chance to learn together and
get entrepreneurial experience when you
try to sell the value of your idea to your
future participants for 120 USD before
the event, when it’s only in your
imagination. This is the beautiful load
that entrepreneurs carry when they bring
in innovations. And it was fun!

25. Start-up Picnic | Hub Kyiv Team (Cont.):
Anna Smyrnova: Start-up Picnic was the first such
experience for Hub Kyiv in realization of the Hub idea in
Ukraine. We really wished that these three days help
entrepreneurs realize their potential and feel support in
the implementation of their ideas and pursuits, We tried
to share with you our experience, ideas and inspiration
but it appeared that we got great inspiration and ideas
from you that we are really grateful for. Owing to the
Picnic we got new supply of energy to realize our ideas
and we really hope to have a chance to share our
progress with you.
Viktoriya Dzyuba: What amazed me about
the Hub-Kyiv's Start-Up Picnic was how the
efforts of many people, greatly dispersed
geographically, culminated
in the event that benefited a multitude of
experienced and would-be
entrepreneurs in Ukraine. And all of this on a
shoe-string budget! It
is possible to work on enthusiasm then!

26. Start-up Picnic | Our thanks:
We are grateful for support from:
ALL ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS & also:
– Aleksandr Lyadov, Dekarta Capital
– Denis Dovgopolyi, BayView Innovations & Investors’ Day
– Yuri Boyko, Silicon Valley, CA
– Andrey Fedorov, «Люди» & «Сахар»
– Volodymyr Vorobey, PPV Knowledge Networks
– Arseniy Finberg, Interesniy Kyiv
– Anna Iurchenko (wall-photo)
– Dmitriy Vandenko (photo)
– Sergey Fedoryk (photo)
– Natalka Moroz (full-time mom)
– Roman Makukhin (MOA Ukraine, organic farming)
– Ivan Prokopenko (photo, support, fun)

27. Start-up Picnic | Conclusions:
Start-up Picnic laid the
ground for the Hub
Kyiv*
*Hub Kyiv is:
• Network of innovative and socially active entrepreneurs with ideas and businesses for more
than profit.
• Space to meet, learn, exchange ideas, knowledge and tools, investigate opportunities, make
things happen, and have fun.
• Movement to see the best of Ukraine, and bring more innovative good here, with working
business models.

28. Start-up Picnic | Conclusions (Cont.):
Hub Kyiv Next Steps:
• Invite people to join our Hub Kyiv team
• Hold monthly or bi-monthly interactive
meetings on topics and questions that
matter most – to share knowledge and
experience, to strengthen the network,
and get inspired
• Invite interesting people/friends from
Ukraine, CIS, and from abroad
• Partner with great entrepreneurial projects
& initiatives in Ukraine and CIS – to bring
it all forward
• Bring the vision of the Hub Kyiv into reality
Please, keep an eye on our news, and invitations that are coming soon!

29. Start-up Picnic | Join us:
How could you become part of Hub Kyiv?
There are three circles of involvement:
Core Team
Members
Contributors
To learn more, please contact us

30. Start-up Picnic | Links, Resources,
Contacts:
Photos:
• http://picasaweb.google.com/hubinua/StartUpPicnic
• http://picasaweb.google.com/pavel.bashmakov/Startuppicnic2009
• http://picasaweb.google.com/hubinua/StartUpPicnicIvanProkopenkoSPics
Materials:
• Hub Story (see attached)
• Hub Mentality (see attached)
• Appreciative Inquiry Questions on Partnership and New Hires (shared by Bliss Browne)
Our contacts:
• http://hub.in.ua/
• http://blog.hub.in.ua/
• picnic@hub.in.ua
• http://twitter.com/hubkyiv
Our groups:
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
Our “TOOLS” section at our Hub.in.ua website contains more interesting resources