| Training of the winning team of the national student startups competition |
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The team of Sumy State University with the startup “OK-TOWN” took third place in the All-Ukrainian competition of student startups from the network of business incubators YEP.
More than 120 teams from all over Ukraine registered at the start, 56 – in the semifinals, and finally – 10 teams reached the final pitch of the national competition of student startups.
At the final pitch, which took place in February 2021, the SSU team was represented by Olena Kasyan, a graduate of the master’s program “Public Administration” (initiator of the startup) and Artem Rudychenko, a third-year student majoring in “Accounting and Taxation”. The mentors of the winning team are Oleksandr Kubatko, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration, and Serhiy Solodovnikov, Chairman of the Scientific Society of Students, Postgraduates, Doctoral Students and Young Scientists (STSA) of SSU.
OK-TOWN is an optimized marketplace, an e-commerce platform for providing services and information in the field of tourism, excursions and recreation, which is based in Sumy. The purpose of the product is to gather all small and large enterprises in the field of local tourism and combine them into one network to generate traffic of orders from future customers.
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