Anton Skrypnyk provides a presentation on lessons learned from startups and failures. Some key points include embracing failure as the first step to success, validating ideas through sales, moving quickly, focusing on execution over ideas, learning from both successes and failures, prioritizing customer success, and dreaming big through establishing goals and vision. The presentation emphasizes testing assumptions, pivoting when needed, and continually learning and improving through experience.

1. hello!
I am Anton Skrypnyk
I am here because spreading ideas and beliefs can make
this world better :
@anton_skrypnyk
presentation prepared for #iHUB #lviv on 10.10.2015

2. Fail is the first
step toward success

3. Startup lessons learned
errare humanum est
but we should learn from them

4. Bootstrap, as long as you can.
Bootstrap until you will know
customer acquisition cost

5. passionate about your
idea or stop doing it!
● Solve problem that matters for you
● It’s not for money
● Do what you love

6. Find right partners
do not do it on your own

7. PARTNERS
TRUST
SHARE
VALUES
VALUE for
BUSINESS
aligned with same goals
1+1+1 should give you more than 3

8. DO NOT WRITE A
BUSINESS PLAN!
WRITE ACTION PLAN!
AND
DREAM YOU PLAN

9. BUILD COMPANY
DO NOT BUILD JUST A PRODUCT
BUILD BUSINESS
CARE ABOUT CASH FLOW,
ABOUT MISSION, VISION, VALUES

10. BE as QUICK as
possible!!!
and be even quicker than it is possible

11. SPEED IS
THE KEY FACTOR
OF YOUR SUCCESS!!!

12. GET LEAN
● Start validating learning
● Use continuous innovation

13. IDEA = 0
EXECUTION = EVERYTHING
● Talk less, Do more!

14. Go Out of the office
ASAP!
● Talk to your customers
● Learn
● Test
● Pivot
● Listen to your users and look for recurrent patterns

15. SALE, SALE, SALE, SALE,
SALE, SALE,
START SALE even if you do not have your product yet! SALE!
TEST your IDEA! TEST your PRICE! TEST YOUR BUSINESS MODEL!
TEST YOUR PRODUCT!!!

16. COMMUNICATION is
EVERYTHING if it is
RIGHT

17. LEARN
ALWAYS LEARN
MAKE RETROSPECTIVE OF YOUR SUCCESS AND FAILS
IT’S CONTINUOUS PROCESS

18. NO BARTER
MONEY is MONEY
CLEVER MONEY is BETTER THAN just MONEY
But do not do barter - you will loose

19. DO NOT HIRE ASHOLES
THEY WILL HIRE ANOTHER ASHOLES

20. CLIENT SUCCESS= YOUR
SUCCESS

21. DO NOT WORRY TO
EARLY ABOUT BIG
PROBLEMS
it may kill you… if you will worry about problems that may kill you in
some success scenario to early

22. DO NOT RUN FOR A BIG
FROM EARLY
BEGINNING
it may cost you a lot of efforts and time with little results in ROI
START WITH SMALL!!!

23. BE SEPARATE COMPANY
DO NOT INTEGRATE TO MUCH WITH INVESTORS

24. BUILD SOCIAL
CONNECTION

25. MOTIVATION and
EQUITY
share equity with the key people
it will open other doors and opportunities

26. DREAM!
DREAM YOUR WEEKLY/ MONTHLY/ YEARLY PLAN
DREAM YOUR GOALS
DREAM BIGGER THAN YOU MAY EXPECT
DREAM BIG!!!

27. Quotes1. “I have not failed. I’ve just found10,000ways thatwon’t work.” - Thomas
Edison
2. “Successis the ability to go fromfailure to failure without losingyour
enthusiasm.”- WinstonChurchill
3. “Failure is only the opportunity to beginagain, only thistime more
wisely.” - Henry Ford
4. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, butin risingevery time we fail.”
- Confucious
5. “In order to succeed, yourdesire for success shouldbe greaterthan
your fear of failure.”- Bill Cosby
6. “Developsuccessfromfailures.Discouragement and failurearetwoof
the sureststeppingstonesto success.” - Dale Carnegie
7. “Failure is successif we learnfromit.” - MalcolmForbes
8. “I’ve come to believe that allmy pastfailure and frustrationswere
actually layingthe foundationfor the understandings thathave created
the new levelof livingI nowenjoy.” - TonyRobbins
9. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard
workandlearningfromfailure.”- ColinPowell
10.“It is fine to celebratesuccess, butit is more important to heedthe
lessons of failure.”- Bill Gates
1.1 “Every adversity, every failure, every heartachecarries with it the seed of a
greateror equalbenefit.”- NapoleonHill
12.“Like success, failure is many things to many people. WithPositive Mental
Attitude, failure is a learningexperience, a rungon the ladder, a plateauat
whichto get yourthoughtsin order and prepareto try again.” - W. Clement
Stone
13.“Theonly real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” -
Buddha
14.“My great concernis not whether you have failed, but whether you are
content withfailure.”- AbrahamLincoln
15.“Don’t be afraidto fail.Don’t waste energy tryingto coverup failure.Learn
fromyour failuresand goon to thenext challenge.It’s ok to fail.If you’renot
failing, you’renot growing.”- H. Stanley Judd
16. “Thinklike a queen.A queen is not afraidto fail.Failingis another
steppingstone to greatness.”- OprahWinfrey
17. “Rememberthat failure is an event, not a person.” - Zig Ziglar
18. “Failure after longperseverance is muchgranderthanneverto havea
strivinggoodenoughto be called a failure.” - George Eliot
19. “Why do I talkabout the benefits of failure?Simply because failure meant
a strippingaway of the inessential.I stopped pretendingto myself that I was
anythingother thanwhatI was andbeganto direct all my energy into
finishingthe only workthat mattered to me.” - J.K.Rowling
20. “I’ve missed more than9000shotsin my career.I’ve lost almost300
games.Twenty-six timesI’ve been trustedto take the game winningshot
and missed.I’ve failedover and overandoveragainin my life.And that is why I
succeed.”- MichaelJordan

28. You can find me at:
twitter: @anton_skrypnyk
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10.10.2015