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- 1. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal RAOMAL PERERA raomal@LeanDisruptor.com | @raomal @LeanDisruptor | www.facebook.com/LeanDisruptor YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
- 2. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” ― Dalai Lama XIV 2
- 3. Serial Entrepreneur ISOCOR (NASDAQ: icor) & Network365/Valista (Intel) Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies INSEAD, IE Business School, UCD, UCC Innovation, Lean Startup, Leadership, Business Planning & Fund Raising Consultant Clients include MSD, Alltech, Darley Flying Start, MoneyMate, HP, ResMed … Accolades Finalist Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Tech Pioneer World Economic Forum ISA Award for Outstanding Software Achievement Blog: www.LeanDisruptor.com RAOMAL PERERA 3
- 4. FOLLOW ME Twitter: @raomal www.facebook.com/LeanDisruptor www.LeanDisruptor.com www.linkedin.com/in/raomal Email: raomal@LeanDisruptor.com 4
- 5. 1991 2000+ 1996 1999 NASDAQ: ICOR ~$100m Offer $237m Closing: $450m+ I exit to setup N365 5
- 6. 1999 2013 2003 I exited Valista Acquired by Merged with 2008 2009 B round €15m Acquired iPin 2000 Mobile commerce Mobile payments Offers to acquire Valista 2007 6
- 9. • You: Find the Gap; How to find opportunities that others don’t see. - Amy Wilkinson • They: Networking (Effectual Entrepreneurship) – Saras Sarasvathy • Gary: Join the Dots – Steve Jobs • The power of the ‘law of attraction’ Message 9
- 10. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal Take Ownership President Barack Obama on Thursday took the blame for shortcomings that led to a failed Christmas Day bombing plot, saying, “The buck stops with me.” 10
- 11. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal Get Visual Take Ownership 11
- 12. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal I am like a surf rider, carried forward on a crest of a wave. The wave bearing me has scarcely started its run; those who thought it was already slackening spoke too soon. I am poised now, in the precarious, but exhilarating balance, that is the essence of real living, the antithesis of mere existence. Behind me roars the reef I have already passed; beneath me the great wave, as yet barely flecked with foam, lumps its back still higher from the sea. And ahead …? 12
- 13. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal And ahead …? We cannot tell; we are too far out to see the unknown land. It is enough to ride the wave 13
- 14. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal Solicit Superb Support Get Visual Take Ownership 14
- 15. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal Solicit Superb Support Get Visual Take Ownership Toss Toxicity 15
- 16. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal Pump up the Positives Solicit Superb Support Get Visual Take Ownership Toss Toxicity 16
- 17. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It is about learning to dance in the rain 17
- 18. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal Log on the Law of Attraction Pump up the Positives Solicit Superb Support Get Visual Take Ownership Toss Toxicity
- 19. Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics. 19
- 20. Persevere Log on the Law of Attraction Pump up the Positives Solicit Superb Support Get Visual Take Ownership Toss Toxicity 20
- 21. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going” – Beverly Sills 21
- 22. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal Celebrate Success Pay Attention Persevere Log on the Law of Attraction Pump up the Positives Solicit Superb Support Get Visual Take Ownership Continuously Course Correct Toss Toxicity 22
- 23. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal What lies behind us and what lies before us are TINY matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring this out into the open MIRACLES happen 23
- 24. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal 24 APPENDIX
- 25. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal Redundancy 1986 Moved to Holland Consultant Co-Founder ISOCOR 1991 Messaging Products IDA Grant Aid IPO Nasdaq 1996 Bought By Critical Path 1999 Setup Network365 JOURNEY 25
- 26. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal Raise Profile Accountants Lawyers Enterprise Ireland Network 365 The Early Days NETWORK365 26
- 27. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomal Setup Network365 Angel Financing First Customer (Digicel) VC Financing International Customers 3GSM Award Acquire iPin Birth of Valista Pass the baton VALISTA 27
- 28. Lean Startup Dublin Meetup – launched Jan 2012 – now have over 1,000 members. Workshops run by Ash Maurya, John Mullins, Brant Cooper, Mary Cronin & Raomal Perera Talks on Lean Startup, Social Media, Agile, Fund Raising, How to build a Startup, Lego Serious Play, Lean in Corporates, Crowd Funding, Cartier Women’s Initiative Award (CWIA). LeanCamp Lean Startup Dublin Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Lean-Startup-Dublin/ 28
- 29. YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE @raomalraomal@LeanDisruptor.com | @raomal @LeanDisruptor | www.linkedin.com/in/raomal RAOMAL PERERA THANK YOU!