SMALL TEAM, BIG SUCCESS Tiến Dũng (dungtn@gmail.com) 05/ 05/ 2007

Outline No one can live alone! Goal Web 2.0 Small team, big success What to do?

No one can live alone!

Goal

Web 2.0

Small team, big success

What to do?

What make people happy? A Happy family (wonderful wife & children) Relationship (best friends, live in harmony) Financial free (do not have work for living)

A Happy family (wonderful wife & children)

Relationship (best friends, live in harmony)

Financial free (do not have work for living)

Who can help? You “ and your Team”

You

“ and your Team”

because no one can live alone! We live in a family work with others co-exist as a society

We live in a family

work with others

co-exist as a society

Work as a “team” to develop 1 st Human / teamwork 2 nd Career / skill 3 rd Business / money

1 st Human / teamwork

2 nd Career / skill

3 rd Business / money

Archive 1 st + 2 nd + 3 rd through Build an Agile team Learn / practice web 2.0 app development Build our own web app

Build an Agile team

Learn / practice web 2.0 app development

Build our own web app

Small team, big success Don’t fool me, I want to work for Microsoft

Don’t fool me, I want to work for Microsoft

Small team, big success But .., Microsoft is dead ! Read more at http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

But .., Microsoft is dead !

Read more at

http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

What kill Microsoft? Google Desktop is over (apps will live on the web. Everything) Broadband Internet (bigger the pipe to the server, the less you need the desktop) Apple (geeks use OSX or Linux , not Windows) “ Microsoft's biggest weakness is that they still don't realize how much they suck. They still think they can write software in house. Maybe they can, by the standards of the desktop world. But that world ended a few years ago”. Paul Graham

Google

Desktop is over (apps will live on the web. Everything)

Broadband Internet (bigger the pipe to the server, the less you need the desktop)

Apple (geeks use OSX or Linux , not Windows)

“ Microsoft's biggest weakness is that they still don't realize how much they suck. They still think they can write software in house. Maybe they can, by the standards of the desktop world. But that world ended a few years ago”. Paul Graham

Small team, big success Web 2.0 Startups

Web 2.0 Startups

Are you ready ? Small team, big success

Are you ready ?

Start with 3 a developer - a designer - a sweeper (who can roam between both worlds) getting real 3 is a magic number e ( 2.718.. ) ~= 3 ~= pi ( 3.141.. ) Vững như kiềng 3 chân Balance

a developer - a designer - a sweeper (who can roam between both worlds) getting real

3 is a magic number

e ( 2.718.. ) ~= 3 ~= pi ( 3.141.. )

Vững như kiềng 3 chân

Balance

3 things to create a successful startup Start with people you want (good people) Make something customers actually want Spend as little money as possible http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html If interested, see also http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/entrepreneurial_proverbs.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

Start with people you want (good people)

Make something customers actually want

Spend as little money as possible

http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

If interested, see also

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/entrepreneurial_proverbs.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

Less is more aim low Less features Less software “ Build simplest thing possible” “ I would have written a shorter letter if I have more time” B. Pascal 80 / 20

aim low

Less features

Less software

“ Build simplest thing possible”

“ I would have written a shorter letter if I have more time” B. Pascal

What to do? Build a w eb app that help Vietnamese people “ understand " then " translate " English docs faster & easier!

Build a w eb app that help Vietnamese people “ understand " then " translate " English docs faster & easier!

What make it great? Analyze English document to show more correctly Vietnamese meanings of each English words. ( if possible ) let computer do machine translation first, then help people refine the translation Saving & versioning translating documents , people can save a draft, and comeback to finish it later Multiple users can collaborate to translate a document Users translated documents that help to improve machine translation quality The more users contribute their documents, the better the service is

Analyze English document to show more correctly Vietnamese meanings of each English words.

( if possible ) let computer do machine translation first, then help people refine the translation

Saving & versioning translating documents , people can save a draft, and comeback to finish it later

Multiple users can collaborate to translate a document

Users translated documents that help to improve machine translation quality

The more users contribute their documents, the better the service is

What to do now ? Getting Real Know what is Web 2.0 Practice Agile Development Start building now !

Getting Real

Know what is Web 2.0

Practice Agile Development

Start building now !

If you love books .. Think and Grow Rich (1987 Napoleon Hill) Getting Real (2006 37signals) Don’t Make Me Think (2006 2 nd NewRiders) The Pragmatic Programmer (1999 AW)

Think and Grow Rich (1987 Napoleon Hill)

Getting Real (2006 37signals)

Don’t Make Me Think (2006 2 nd NewRiders)

The Pragmatic Programmer (1999 AW)