The best business clubs in Ukraine

The trend for business clubs appeared in Ukraine just a few years ago. For some time, the Ukrainian market lagged behind the European one in the number of successful investors and entrepreneurs, but now everything is arranged differently. In recent years, influential Ukrainians have been confidently creating large-scale business communities that change the lives of hundreds of people who join them. How to choose the best of them in Ukraine and what nuances to pay attention to when choosing - find out in our article.

Will business clubs improve your life?

First you need to understand what business clubs are and why well-known entrepreneurs open them. It is well known that the right environment forms the right strategy for one's own development. This is how business clubs bring together people who are related to the field of business, entrepreneurship and investment, and who have similar values and problems. For example, when you are launching a new business or looking for ways to scale up an existing one, good outside support can be the deciding factor for you. One good piece of advice can change your life. You don't have to go far. Think of the movie The Founder, where future millionaire and owner of McDonald's chain Ray Kroc met a financial consultant who gave him a strategically crucial idea for development. It's just worth saying that after that, Kroc entered the list of the 100 most important people of the century according to the Times magazine, and his earned fortune at the time of his death was estimated at 500 million US dollars.

Yes, he was not a member of the business club. Simply because there were no business clubs in the 1950s as such. But Kroc met the right person, being in the right place at the right time. It is this advantage that is much more easily accessible today thanks to business clubs. Of course, no advice will work without your concrete actions and its implementation in your business. Therefore, to say that business clubs will improve your life, but you will not have to do anything, is stupidity. A better life comes to those who are ready to work for it, and business clubs only show the right direction and ways in which this is possible.

How does the life of people who join the community of entrepreneurs change? We have selected some real Stories in which they tell and show their results. I was especially impressed by the changes in the life of an entrepreneur from the Kiev region. Even he himself did not expect such a quantum leap.

Who and how can join such a community?

All business clubs have a different structure and are divided into closed and open. Open communities of entrepreneurs have a freer principle of work. For membership, all you need to do is sign an agreement on the rules of the club, pay a membership fee and pay a monthly fee. At the same time, it does not matter what income you have and in what area you develop. Of the advantages in such clubs, one can single out a low price and still no involvement in the business community, but a significant disadvantage is that you can meet completely random and different people here.

Closed clubs work in a completely different way. Firstly, their residents, as a rule, are market leaders, and therefore it is much more expensive to learn from their experience. Therefore, a membership fee with a subscription fee for participating in such a club costs much more, but at the same time, you also get more benefits and confidence. In addition, closed clubs often have status requirements. Entrepreneurs with a certain level of turnover of their business can join such a community. If the lowest bar is about 10 thousand dollars a year, and you earn half as much, then the refusal is obvious. You can also get into such clubs on the advice, but this requires reliable and strong connections in the business industry, and not everyone has them. But such a strict selection is bearing fruit: those who cannot yet become a member get the motivation to scale up, and those who have already joined such a business club find themselves surrounded by selected and reliable partners.

What brings people to communities and how the process of their entry goes - see the selection of Stories. Among them there is even a video from an interview in one of the Kiev business clubs, how do you like it?

What are the benefits of participating in a business club?

In simple words, business clubs, like any clubs in the world, are created and work according to interests. For example, there is the same women's business club, which is aimed at developing women entrepreneurs. Such women's clubs can be found not only in Kiev, but also in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other CIS countries. Their advantage makes it possible to develop in an environment of actual competitors with whom you can become partners and even discuss collaborations. Such a strategy, as you know, can give several businesses large-scale results at once.

In addition, an important advantage of participating in a business club is that it accelerates your development. The path from where you are now to where you want to go can take several months or even years until you hit the bumps on your way and understand how to do it right. But with partners whom you meet in a business club, this stage passes much faster. This happens through communication with people who are close to your lifestyle, standard of living and business thinking. It’s really possible to find a mentor here who will help you grow up and won’t wait for you to pay for your care. He himself is interested in testing his own mentoring skills.

What else do community members get from joining a community? Check out our selection of Stories. But there are exceptions when people lose rather than gain. The experience of two entrepreneurs from the capital's club is a vivid example of this.

Which business clubs in Ukraine can be trusted?

Today, business clubs are open in almost all major cities of Ukraine. There are business clubs in the Dnieper, Kiev, Odessa and Kharkov. In Russia, there are much more of them, because the market there is much more expensive. It is no secret that participation in a business club in Moscow or in a business club in St. Petersburg can give a Ukrainian entrepreneur even more skills for development. But if you are just starting this path, then you should start by choosing existing ones in Ukraine. But before deciding where exactly to go, look through the ratings of business clubs and read the biographies of their residents. It is important.

YES, and in general, ask if the reality corresponds to what their ideologists say on the beautiful websites of the clubs and in social networks. Judging by the Stories from our selection, they do not always match. A video with the owner of a network of beauty salons is a clear example of this.

If you still have doubts and want to learn more about the payment and rules in such business clubs, then it is better to do this with people who are already members of them. In a couple of minutes, you can find any member of a business club in Ukraine that interests you and chat with him personally in a messenger convenient for you. Today this is possible thanks to our Ask.Direct service, which greatly simplifies the search for reviews about a particular business club. You don't need to download anything: just click on the Ask.Direct button on the right in the column from the business club and get answers to your questions instantly.