I believe that one is more successful when one doesn’t consciously try to make a lot of money or bit down competitors. Much better way to achieve success is to create something new and beautiful that one can be proud of. To build business in a way that one believes to be the best. The way to imagine it in the ideal world. In this case it will be successful and will bring a considerable income. But more importantly one would receive satisfaction and joy from doing it every day, rather than getting stress from trying to win harder and harder.

This is why I call what I do “projects” rather than “work” or “business. Some projects bring revenue right now, some will hopefully do in the future, some will never do and will remain a hobby or sort of “charity”. The most important for me is that with every project I am trying to create something new that no one has done before (at least in this country) and this something is bringing benefits to people around me. This is why I see what I do as a pleasant activity rather than a daily burden.

Finding it a bit difficult to answer a common question “What do you do?” I came up with a short answer “Travel, Lifestyle, Ibiza”, which I actually put on my business card. Below it is explained more in details.

• ATH Business Travel Solutions – is a technological leader in Russian business travel industry. This is a top travel management company (TMC), providing full range of travel, visa and MICE services for large and medium size corporations. This is the first TMC in Russia that provides real working instruments for owners and top management of ATH clients to control their travel policy on the transactional basis and cutting travel budget by 20-30% while keeping the same number of trips.
  www.ath.ru
  
  
• Red Spot Lifestyle Management – first company in Russia to offer concierge è lifestyle management services for successful and wealthy. Red Spot operates as a private club and works 24/7 fulfilling all sorts of requests from its clients from booking a table in a top NYC restaurant or finding a French speaking nanny for a family to building a personal wine collection or renting a villa with a helicopter in Cote d’Azur.
  www.redspot.ru
  
  
• Corporate Travel Academy (CTA), which mission is to “Raise the Standards of the Russian Business Travel”. CTA moves to this goal by providing hands-on travel agent courses that prepare new breed of travel professionals and by consulting corporate clients on the ways to manage their business travel. In order to bring attention to business travel in Russia and showcase the best companies in this sphere CTA established annual Travel Academy Awards – Business Travel that had become the most valued award of the industry.
  www.travelcareer.ru
  
  
• BBS Travel – boutique travel agency located near Stary Arbat that provides full range of visa and travel services for individuals and small companies. BBS offers air and rail ticketing, Russian and foreign visa services, hotels reservations. It also organises tours to any leisure destination.
  www.bbstravel.ru
  
  
• Jet Set Moscow – is the definitive guide on the world’s most decadent and exclusive places, currently featuring Moscow, London, Ibiza and Istanbul (4 of my favourite places). New-York, Paris, Cote d’Azur, Madrid, Tokyo, Amsterdam and Beirut are to follow. Jet Set is 100% independent as we don’t accept any freebies or incentives from venues. This is the best source of up to date information for a modern cosmopolite.
  www.jetsetguide.ru
  
  
• IbizaRu – is the leading Russian portal for people who are young at heart regardless of the actual age. IbizaRu a a community of people who loves travel and electronic music – people united by the motto «Sea, Sun, Music, Cool People & Freedom = IbizaRu». Here you can find guides to Ibiza, Kazantip, Goa and Burning Man, hot discussions at the forum, party calendar and much more.
  
  VIP Ibiza is the unique guide in Russian for upscale and glamorous Ibiza, combined with a professional concierge service.
  www.ibiza.ru and www.vip.ibiza.ru
  
  
• Business Incubator in MGIMO – I took the initiative and convinced the head of MGIMO to create this institution – existing at most western business schools - at this top Russian University, famous for being the most elitist since Soviet times. It must be said that the speed of the implementation of this project was very impressive, considering usual conservatism of the Russian Universities.
  www.bi.mgimo.ru
  
  
• SOS text – It's a well-known fact that British people are very sensitive to any misuse of their language. From the moment you start talking or writing to someone, you create an impression that can be difficult to change. If English is not your first language, but you need it for business or personal correspondence, this site can help you. Proof-readers will make sure that your important documents or letters are not only spelt correctly, but are also grammatically accurate. Even if you have excellent English, you may still find this service useful. Click here to take a very simple English test to fully understand the value of the services offered.
  www.sos-text.com
  
  
• No Monday! Most of us don’t like Mondays. If you belong to this group or if you simply want to meet cool people and have fun Monday night, join us from 7PM to midnight to celebrate the fact that we’ve made it through yet another Monday! No Monday! parties have become a favourite feature of the Moscow party landscape and the only place to have fun on Mondays.
  www.nomonday.ru
  
  
• HateOrange.co.uk! Actually orange is one of my favourite colours. The same cannot be said about the UK mobile operator Orange. Once upon a time I was a customer and was shocked by their incompetence, stubbornness and inability to provide even a decent level of service.
  At some point it was too much and I decided – for the fun of it – to create a website about Orange. This project proved that with the help of Internet even individual can fight a multi-billion dollar corporation. It was covered in industry magazines, Times, BBC and many other publications.
  
  You can still enjoy the story by following the link
  Hate orange
  
  
• Debonaire – secret club for wealthy barchellors…

To be continued…