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 m2, 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 2. 318 million EUR
Results
50 supported companies
17 tenant companies
12 virtual members
Annual turnover of companies over 800.000 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
Joint lab with a client company:
 Training center for CISCO CCNA
 Training center for Microsoft
 Test center for Pearson VUE
 Test center for Prometric
Blackberry
lab
Youth and Success
 Graduated company
 The elections platform
iVote for Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Kosovo (now
building for Latin America)
Youth and Success
Youth to Innovation (Y2i)
Contest for EE and CA
3rd Global Forum on
Innovation &
Entrepreneurship in October
2009
Youth and Success
VIP Android Challenge- II award
Thank you for your attention
Natasha Petkova
YES Foundation
[email protected]
www.yes.org.mk