Let’s play business Natasha Petkova, Project coordinator Youth Entrepreneurial Service (YES) Foundation, Macedonia Brussels, March 2011

Content  YES Foundation  Development programs  Implemented projects  Results  IT Development  Success stories

YES Incubator  IT Business incubator (since 2007)  600 m 2, 21 offices  Focus on youth (18-30)  Entrepreneurial and IT trainings  Human recourses  1 MSc. of Economics/Certified Global Career Development Facilitator  1 Certified PMP  Business, Law and IT background

Development programs  Microsoft BizSpark partner  CISCO Entrepreneurship Institute  Starting business  iExec  EBC*L  Global Entrepreneurship Week host  Startup Weekend host

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Over 20 implemented projects in the field of:  Job creation through stimulation of entrepreneurship  Investment readiness of the hi-tech sector  Development of entrepreneurship, competitiveness and innovativeness of the SMEs  Overall budget million EUR

Results  50 supported companies  17 tenant companies  12 virtual members  Annual turnover of companies over EUR  4000 young people educated through entrepreneurial and IT trainings  Over 120 new job positions  11 export oriented companies

IT development iMac lab for development of mobile applications Blackberry lab Joint lab with a client company:  Training center for CISCO CCNA  Training center for Microsoft  Test center for Pearson VUE  Test center for Prometric

Youth and Success  Graduated company  The elections platform iVote for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo (now building for Latin America)

Youth and Success 3rd Global Forum on Innovation & Entrepreneurship in October 2009 Youth to Innovation (Y2i) Contest for EE and CA

Youth and Success VIP Android Challenge- II award

Thank you for your attention Natasha Petkova YES Foundation