Hello, friends! We’ve just come back from the Valley, and we want to say: YES, BREAKTHROUGH HAPPENED! It was five-week engrossing and total deep dive into verse of Silicon Valley where the sensor of success and happiness is through the roof! It was five weeks of continuous operation under a constant stress, but at the same time every moment was a discovery and full of great possibilities!

Our schedule was bursting at the seams with the number of meetings (50 per month), and the address book splited from the number of new contacts (2 networking-events per day). At night, we responded to the letters, because they just fell out of our mailboxes! But we decided that it was not enough, and organized three own events: Falling in Love with Ukrainian Startups, Start Ukraine Up and  Inaugural VIP Dinner

Curious about the results? Here you are:

• 5 out of 6 of our residents received global reset and thoroughly were Inflated by the silicone in the Valley of success: Advice Wallet, SvitStyle, Beondesk, YourSize and Umix.tv. Ugift will visit America with the third cycle residents, in September 2013, so don’t worry!
• 3 out of 5 of our residents pumped up their American muscle: now Advice Wallet, YourSize and  Umix.tv has representatives in the U.S.!
• 2 out of 6 of our startups are at the stage of signing contracts with investors!
• We are expanding! 25 new international stars of IT, entrepreneurship and venture capital business are included to the list of Happy Farm!
• Happy Farm Board will have a new chairman soon - Oded Hermoni – the investor of Rhodium, high tech executive - investments and management in the fields of Internet, Media, Medical and Cleantech, with very strong and effective networking in Israel, US and Asia of top tier investors, global companies and startups.
• A huge network of contacts is established over the last month from scratch, namely:

Superinvestors: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Rustic Canyon Partners, Trinity Ventures, Cisco Investment, Formula.VC, XG Ventures, Foundation Capital, Shasta Ventures and many others

Supercompanies: Microsoft, Facebook, Google, JC Penney, Evernote, Turner Media, Gateway and others

Superevents: Crunchies Awards 2012, International Founder ASK Party, SF Beta: Developer Week Edition, Startup Grind 2013, Apps World Mixer, Apps World exhibition, Vator Splash , The next Founders Happy Hour

Superincubators: 500 Startups DemoDay, Runway Incubator, nestGSV, Innovation Nest

Superuniversities: Stanford, Berkeley

Superheroes: Steve Blank, Dave McClure

We did it! First flowers and fruit were grown on our farm!

Now we are looking  for COOL startups for the second cycle! In the new season there will be a lot of novations: we will create seven classes of startups for different needs and will invite the coolest stars of Valley’s venture capital business to Ukraine. Follow our news!

Application can be submitted by May 10 on the website happyfarm.com.ua