On September 5, on the second day of the 5th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF-2019), within the framework of the Innovation Territory project, a pitch session and the next stage of the Business Priority competition for technology startups took place. The purpose of the competition, organized by the Roscongress Foundation in conjunction with the Far Eastern Foundation for High Technologies and the Russkiy Technopark with the support of the Primorsky Territory Administration, was to select innovative products that can be used in the Far Eastern Federal District.
At the end of the pitch session, an open-talk “From Zero to Billion …” took place, in which the finalists of the competition were able to talk with the founders and CEOs of already successful technology startups – VISITECH was represented in the discussion by its CEO Rustam Milanov.
As envisaged by this format, entrepreneurs spoke about personal success stories and frankly answered difficult questions that worry everyone who is thinking about starting their own business: why did they decide to go this difficult path instead of working for hire, how they assembled a team and proved the value of their product clients, at what point they began to attract investments and what path they went through, implementing transactions with the largest corporations in Russia.