About this user
I am a venturer and adventurer... Founder of IdeaMama Group:
See http://IdeaMamaAdNetwork.com and
http://IdeaMamaClub.com.
Personal page: http://olga-kostrova.com.
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Public profile (al the press stuff, you know... lol)
BIO:
OLGA KOSTROVA was born in Kiev in 1973 to a family that huddled together in a tiny apartment with only one room. That room housed the dining room and bedroom at the same time. There were 6 people: mother, father, older sister and two grandmothers.
Later Olga mentioned:
My grandmothers were heroic women. These two sisters found my mother on the threshold of their house a house which was later destroyed in the Second World War. Fleeing from the fascist army, my mothers natural mum threw her newborn baby in this house a few hours before she was killed. These women brought up the baby as their own child, in spite of abject poverty and famine. I thank my lucky stars that I grew up in this family with people that lavish care upon each other and gave me the opportunity to understand what is meant by goodness, wisdom and strength.
Her mother says:
Olga always did what she wanted to do. She was very insistent and achieved everything she desired. She rarely listened to anyones advice. She tried to get her own lessons and learn first hand. She was an unbelievably bright and charming child. She played a key role in her high school drama theatre and puppet show, and studied ballroom dance. She was also a member of the junior natural history study group. She did so many things but it didnt prevent her from graduating high school with excellent marks. She always tried to reach beyond her capacity. And she often did.
Olga found her passion of creative activities during childhood.
In 1996 she completed her degree in Financial Management and Economics. At the age of 23, she managed the marketing activities of one of the biggest international companies in Europe. At the age of 27 she was interviewed for the position of CEO of a new branch of an international advertising agency in Ukraine, but did not have a chance to accept the offer because of her ex-husbands intentions to relocate to North America.
By this time, she had gained knowledge and experience in serving clients with high standards of work. She applied this experience later to her first business venture (a fashion house see http://olgrandeur.ideamama.net), which she started at the end of 2001; also a media company and stock photo agency (http://artmill.ideamama.net) that marketed her photo collection that she founded in 2002; and in IdeaMama Group that she founded in 2004. Now the company has 2 devisions - IdeaMamaClub.com (a virtual invention incubator), and IdeaMama Ad Network (affiliate network for product launch marketing).
With the fundamental premise to offer business consultancy for entrepreneurs and inventors, IdeaMama Group is a firm of professionals specialized in all aspects of business, providing consultancy to our clients with a new culture of service, in which business requires support that guarantees the healthy development of initial concepts.
IdeaMamas programs are designed for talented individuals to make a bold statement, I am! for their idea. It is a bridge between an idea and a business empire.
IdeaMama Group has an exceptional team that is dedicated to planning, structuring and marketing clients ideas, raising necessary capital, recruiting, motivating and training future employees, and finally bringing new products to market.
Olga's company aims to represent the most promising creative projects and technological innovations that are submitted for development. As a performance marketing firm we invest in and market start-ups and have access to global markets. IdeaMamas investment strategy hinges on its ability to invest value added capital through providing early stage start-up ventures with marketing support and infrastructure, management support and coaching, and access to a network of service providers, vendors, customers and next stage investment capital resources. We analyze each business model, the market segment in which it operates, its successes and challenges, potential reliability and scalability and research the social impact of the venture. We develop a competitive creative marketing strategy for each product and build brand identity. By presenting the invention as an investment opportunity we match make new projects with resources for further expansion of the business.
Olga supports and facilitates innovation in various industries: biotechnology, commerce, education, energy, entertainment, environment, finance, health & medicine, information technology, materials, space, transportation, and many others.
I think there is only one way to succeed, - shares Olga. - Do what you can do the best and just do it. Search your talents till you find your passion. Or maybe it will find you first.
Age
38
Country
United States
Interests
Olga Kostrova is an accomplished serial entrepreneur, social innovation pioneer, inventor and a mentor for emerging entrepreneurs. She personally holds several patents in wide range of industries - consumer product, digital media, advertising technologies, transactional marketing, biometrics in Web 3.0 and more.
Currently Olga serves as a CEO of IdeaMama Ad Network.
She has founded this company to revolutionize the advertising industry by pioneering a new advertising model -- Pay Per Deal advertising. IdeaMama Ad Network has been successfully marketing B2B companies with complex sales utilizing this new PPD ad model despite established perceptions that affiliate marketing is only suitable for consumer product. Olga is one of a very few women that innovates in add tech space.
Previously in 2005 Olga has pioneered a concept that now is known as crowdsourcing, crowddevelopment and crowdfunding. She has launched one of the first companies in the world that introduced this breakthrough concept and a framework for global online collaboration between entrepreneurs.
Prior starting IdeaMama Group, Olga served as a Marketing Director for numerous technology and consumer goods companies, both startups and multinationals.
Olga is also known for her philanthropic initiatives and community involvement. Olga joined The African Network annual conference team (TANCon2010) as a Chair of International Development. Olga believes that developing countries need a lot of support and as entrepreneurs it is a privilege and our responsibility to reach out and empower people in those regions such that they building their own future.
INTERESTS:
philanthropy, entrepreneurship, social innovation, business innovation, technology, science, human mind, deep human connections, eccentric people, free thinkers, nonconformist, spirituality (not religion), world peace, inner peace, the evolution of humanity, adventures, sailing, horse riding, reading, screen-writing, photography, cinematography... and the list goes on