AmBAR

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American Business Association of Russian Professionals (AmBAR) - is a non-profit organization founded to foster entrepreneurship and create an informal networking platform for the Russian-speaking professional community in the United States [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. The organization has headquaters in Palo Alto, California.

AmBAR was founded in 2002 by a group of experienced technology entrepreneurs and business professionals from the leading Silicon Valley companies and venture capital firms such as Sun Microsystems, Intel Capital, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson [8].

As of February 2007, Ambar reported over 2000 members. Among the members of the organization there are entrepreneurs, engineers, marketers, lawyers, finance specialists, venture capitalists and angel investors [8].

Through various educational events AmBAR provides help to entrepreneurs refine their business plans, advance their product development and marketing efforts [1].

AmBAR is an organizer of the Silicon Valley Open Doors (SVOD) technology investment conference which takes place annually in Silicon Valley (California, USA) [7], [9], [10], [11].

[edit] References:

[1] Roeder-Johnson Corporation web-site about AmBAR

[2] The Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation mentions AmBAR in the article

[3] Johnson’s Russia List about AmBAR

[4] SVASE affiliates

[5] Starboard Ventures LLC web-site

[6] Maxim Mironov's blog in BusinessWeek.com

[7] An Article about offshore development

[8] AmBAR’s web-site

[9] RUSSOFT about AmBAR and SVOD (in Russian)

[10] Article: 'Silicon Valley Open Doors' 2006: Time to Invest in Ukraine is Now

[11] SVOD Web-Site