Start-up as a tool for implementation of investment decisions

Olga Gura

doi:10.31520/2616-7107/2018.2.2-1

Olga Gura Odessa Financial and Economic College of Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, Odessa, Ukraine http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8526-8844

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31520/2616-7107/2018.2.2-1

Abstract

Introduction. Start-up is the first necessary stage of a life cycle of innovations. Discovering of foreign experience shows us a limited count of theoretical researches in case of the start-up business methodology. A high-speed system of a support of the start-ups is the fundament for an activation of innovations deals, the increase of the volume of innovations production, the export of high-tech product.

Aim and tasks. The aim of the article is discovering of the matter and conditions of Ukrainian IT-business, finding the main sources of a financing of the start-ups in conditions of national economy instability and the detection of potential investment sources for some innovation projects on the data of the start-ups modern financing condition. This article uses dialectical method of research of economy actions and processes in their development and interconnection, systematically way for researching issues.

Research results. The start-up business has differences from the ordinary business, because the investors invest money in it in the beginning of existence, not in time of successful working. One of the main spheres of the modern start-up business is IT-industry.

The biggest spheres of modern investment: the outsourcing, the “Angels’ investments”, the crowdfunding. The Venture Capital and Direct Investment Association (UVCAeu) was founded in Ukraine and the task of this association is the assistance for global companies development in Ukraine and connecting Ukrainian and world’s start-up communities.

Conclusions. Ukraine is becoming the IT-nation. The Technology talent is the unique feature of our country. The one we really need is the entrepreneurial grip in meaning of the right presentation of our product. Today we have to be confident in our start-ups prospective, and each year the world will talk more and more about the success of the Ukrainian projects and our country in general.

Keywords:

start-up, investment, IT-company, outsourcing, kraudfanding, angelic investments, gadget, Ukrainian association of venture capital and direct investments, project

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