Teaching

This lecture cycle supplies startup owners with mechanisms of successful negotiations, while teaching them to navigate the variables of an investor’s point of view. Challenges students to transform their product-oriented vision into a scalable and sustainable business case. Strengthens student’s pitching skills and aids them with a variety of communicative techniques.

From determination of problem worth solving to the valuation phase, this course targets each aspect of startup development. Guides students through defining scalable solutions that ensure sustainable implementation of the product hypothesis. Positions their startups to enter the MVP phase with tailored and tested master plan derived from their personal business approach. Defines the roles of team allocation based on a custom-built workflow and Gantt chart methodologies.

This lecture cycle guides students through allocation of (non-) idiomatic markets. By defining audience-specific market segmentation, students form their own disruptive to-market strategies. Guided sessions explore various product portfolio diversification tactics to broaden the multi-market presence for any chosen brand. Initially, students define measurable metrics for POC evaluation of their final to-market strategy test.

From the construction of personal brand to masterplan, financing, and viralization - this lecture cycle is tailored to suit the needs of each particular industry. The approach is keyed in development of project management skills to explore various business strategies. This helps to achieve the ultimate impact of a full-stack entrepreneur. By optimizing the corporate operational mechanisms, students learn to transform the service of their personal brand through formation of revenue model, establishment of workflow.

From ancient greek comedy to italian Commedia dell'arte and Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk, interdisciplinary collaborations have been historically at the core of the most influential works of art. Taking the examples, such as Diaghilev's Saisons Russes and Robbins’ West Side Story, the class explores the formation principles of contemporary interdisciplinary genres: ballet, opera, film, musical, performance and theater play.

This university course for visual and performing artists is derived from the personal experience of a musician, producer and business consultant. From proposal formation to budgeting, fundraising and network management, it explores the tactics for building a successful career in the arts. Every lecture empowers the next generation of artists-entrepreneurs to re-envision their markets and transform the industry.