It’s been a year since Startup Armenia began working to develop entrepreneurship concepts and initiatives in Armenia and the world.

Startup Armenia founder and President Hayk Asriyants told about the year of work and future projects in the interview to Itel.am.

We present below certain extracts from the interview.  

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I am proud to say that by cooperating with Business Support Office of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and SME Cooperation Association, we participated in changing the tax field for guest-house business and concept development. Although we did it for the first time, everything went smoothly and inspired us to come forward with new initiatives.

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Among our interests is also the improvement of business processes of enterprise registration, taxation, reporting, and other procedures which might be a burden for startups.

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We want to put Armenia on the world’s startup map. We already have an impressive number of success stories coming out of Armenia, but we need to develop and “sell” our engineering and coding skills, our creativity, our networking potential, our vibrant nightlife, so that foreign entrepreneurs would consider Yerevan and Armenia among top destinations where they can build their startups.

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Startup Armenia is going to present several initiatives in the near future, including organization of startup competitions and hackathons.

Our long-term goal is to create competitions and projects of new formats, and eventually spread them to other countries.
 
You can read the full interview here.