Special American Business Internship Training Program, U.S. Department of Commerce

Growth Hacking workshop by Andrey Komarovsky

Central City Gymnasium of Krivoy Rog city

Project Music business accelerator, Nashville, TN, United States

Kiev National Economics University

School of Music #1 of Krivoy Rog city

UX design workshop by Taras Korol

Private teacher. English language.

HappyFarm business accelerator

Language village

Karate Shotokan

Founder of GrowthHackingIdea

Ukraine

About 5 months each day during 3-5 hours I was collecting from all over the internet (from books, blogs, articles, videos, podcasts, news, and comments) best growth hacks, which inspired me to test them for my startup. 

First growth hacks I was compressing into a short form and keeping in a private document. And then the crazy idea hit my head —  establish an e-mail subscription service, that sends every day one short growth hack. This is how <a href="http://growthhackingidea.com">growthhackingidea.com</a> was born. After 3 weeks there were 1700 subscribers ($0 marketing cost). After 3 months - 17 000 subscribers ($0 marketing cost).

People from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce, TechStars, Hubspot, Coca-Cola, Indiegogo, Disney, 500 startups, LinkedIn, Adobe, Sony/PlayStation became my subscribers.

GrowthHackingIdea.com

Founder

1. Analyzing:
1.1. Analyzing the market & customer needs.
1.2. Brainstorming.
1.3. Generating ideas, hypothesis, concepts.
1.4. Prioritizing.
1.5. Extreme fast development of landing pages.
1.6. Validating hypothesis.
1.7. Planing costs of money and time.
1.8. KPIs.

2. Product development:
2.1. Description of the product for API, web, iOS, Android.
2.2. Mockups.
2.3. UX/UI design.
2.4. Full technical specification of the product.
2.5. Splitting into releases, tasks.
2.6. High load architecture creating.
2.7. Coding.
2.8. Refactoring.
2.9. Testing: automatic and manual.
2.10. Releasing.
2.11. Feedback analyzing, modifying plans.
2.12. Generating new ideas and hypothesis.

3. Marketing:
3.1. Viral marketing.
3.2. Facebook integration.
3.3. Growth hacking.
3.4. SMM.
3.5. SEM.
3.6. E-mail marketing
3.7. Cold and warm calls.
3.8. SEO
3.9. Negotiations with clients & partners
3.10. Testing user acquisition channels.
3.11. PR.
3.12. Unconventional PR
3.13. Public offline events.
3.14. Direct sales.
3.15. Engineering as Marketing.
3.16. Affiliate programs.

4. HR:
4.1. Recruiting
4.2. Casting.
4.3. Educating
4.4. Motivating.
4.5. Consulting.
4.6. Agile/Scrum management.
4.7. Team building.
4.8. Managing team of developers, designers, managers, editors, sales (co-founders, employees, outsourcing, freelancers).
4.9. Monitoring

5. Funding:
5.1. Raising capital.
5.2. Public presentation for investors, at competitions (pitching).
5.3. Networking.
5.4. Reports for shareholders and new interested investors.
5.5. Legal documents managing.

Products:
Concert.Expert - SaaS for the live music business.
AlarmNewTrack - Android Alarm application. Wakes you up each day with a new track, selected according to your taste. <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.NGSE.alarmnewtrack">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.NGSE.alarmnewtrack</a>
<a href="http://Yaliti.com">Yaliti.com</a> - service for promotion of musicians.
<a href="http://1NewTrack.com">1NewTrack.com</a> - subscribe and get each day one new track, selected according to your tastes.
NextMusic.TV - music video exactly for your current mood.

Next Music, Inc.

CEO, Founder

1. Creating the product "from scratch" from idea to the working product.
2. Writing list of technical tasks, specifications.
3. CTO and developer.
4. Managing team of developers, designers (outsourcing and freelancers).
5. Bootstrapping, raising seed Angel investments.
6. Have reached >3 million price lines, which were updating every day.

Marketing:
1. SEM.
2. SEO.
3. Direct sales.
4. Presenting, pitching the product.

Yadoshka.com

CEO, CTO, CMO, Founder

We've officially released a CD with 12 tracks. UPC (bar code). ISRCs.
All tracks were produces by two of us from scratch: production, mastering, instruments, vocals, recording in our own studio.
Have signed a contract with BMI to collect royalties. And SoundExchange to collect royalties from digital distribution.
Have registered copyrights in the US.
Our album is sold in iTunes, Amazon, streams in Last.fm, Spotify, Pandora, etc.

Marketing:
1. US Blogs.
2. US Magazines.
3. US, Great Britain, Australia, Canada college FM radio stations, public and national FM radio stations.
4. Video production. Spreading among music TV channels.
5. Crowd-funding.
6. Public relations.
7. Social and Display Ads.
8. Content Marketing.
9. E-mail marketing.
10. Using existing platforms as marketing.

<a href="http://fantastishglobalsystems.com">http://fantastishglobalsystems.com</a>

Fantastish Global Systems

Drummer, Co-producer, CMO, Co-founder

1. Founding the service "from scratch" from idea to the working product.
2. Development.
3. Marketing: sales, SEO, SEM, content marketing.
4. Profitable from first days.

Universal Platform

1. Creating the niche product "from scratch" from idea to the working product in a heavily competitive market.
2. Bootstraping.
3. Overcoming chicken and egg problem.
4. Developing, re-factoring, optimizing.
5. Marketing: SEO, Content marketing, Business development, E-mail marketing.
6. A/B testing with Google Adsense & Yandex.Direct to maximize profits.
7. Establishing partnership with leaders of the market.
8. Content marketing, feed export.
9. Reaching stable profitability.
10. Managing moderators.
11. Exit. Sold.

Metall. Equipment. Ukraine. (Metall.net.ua)

1. Creating the product "from scratch" from idea to the working product to the #1 on the market.
2. Bootstraping.
3. Marketing:
3.1. Customer development.
3.2. Community building.
3.3. Public relations.
3.4. Speaking engagements.
3.5. Seminars as marketing.
3.6. Founding the only national competition among hosting companies "Best hosting company of the year".
3.7. Engineering as marketing.
3.8. SEO.
3.9. Content marketing.
3.10. E-mail marketing.
3.11. Sales
4. Development.
5. Monetizing.
6. Reaching stable profitability.
7. Growing a manager of the service to make the business fully autonomous.
8. Exit. Sold.

Web-site about hosting in Ukraine (karman.com.ua)

1. Creating the niche product "from scratch" from idea to the working product in a heavily competitive market.
2. Bootstraping.
3. Overcoming chicken and egg problem.
4. Developing, re-factoring, optimizing.
5. Marketing: SEO, Email marketing.
6. A/B testing with Google Adsense & Yandex.Direct to maximize profits.
7. Reaching stable profitability.
8. Managing moderators.
9. Exit. Sold.

Bulletin board of Kiev city (yarma.kiev.ua)

1. Founding the service "from scratch" from idea to the working product.
2. Development.
3. Managing team of developers, designers (employees and freelancers).
4. Profitable from first days.

We have developed about 30 corporate web-sites, based on our own CMS.

Own CMS from scratch.
Modules of the system, which users could manage (32 pages of documentation):
1) Menu, articles, news, redirects, access.
2) Language versions of the site.
3) File manager.
4) Search.
5) Tutorial mode.
6) Automatic SEO optimising.
7) Full statistics.
8) E-shop.
9) Interactive graphics.
10) Forum.
11) Bulletin board.
12) FAQ
13) Wiki
14) Subscription.
15) Catalogue of sites.
16) Billing.
17) Forms generator.

Web-studio "Webmanager-pro" (webmanager-pro.com)

CTO, Co-founder

1. Development. Improving of the product.
2. Monetizing.
3. Marketing: direct and automatic sales of ads.
4. Increasing recurring revenue up to 10 times.

Ukrainian Bulletin Board (board.com.ua)

Product Manager

1. Creating the product "from scratch" from idea to the working product.
2. Development.
3. E-mail marketing.
4. Exit. Sold.

bn.buildbn.net - commercial banner network

1. Create the first in Ukraine freelance service "from scratch" from idea to the working product.
2. Monetization - commission from orders.

Portal for webmasters and their clients (Web-center.com.ua)

CEO, CTO, Founder

1. Creating a product from scratch.
2. Monetization - recurring revenue from a subscription.
3. Managing the team of developers.

Tourserver.com.ua

1. Total rebuilding of the product.
2. Developing monetization from scratch. Increased revenue by 75 times.
3. Marketing:
3.1. E-mail marketing.
3.2. Sales.
3.3. Seminars as marketing.
3.4. Public relations.
3.5. Marketing through national contests. "Best business idea of the year" Award at the all-Ukrainian competition hosted by Sun micro-systems.
3.6. Customer development.

Travel web-site (Turbaza.com.ua)

Product Manager, Marketing manager

First experience on the web.

1. We created a profitable web-service “from scratch” (<a href="http://craigslist.com">craigslist.com</a> of Krivoy Rog).
2. Development.
3. Design.
4. Marketing: customer development, offline marketing, sales, business development.
5. Profitability from the first month.

Aladdin Happy (Shchaslyvyi)