In this presentation i talk about lessons learned during one year of having run our startup AISLER. I elaborate on why we changed course and what the future will be. This is stored here so I can have a look at it a year later and see whether I adhered to the lessons learned myself :)

1. A tale from startup reality

2. =
Co-Founder Founder Co-Founder
for everything else:
https://linkedin.com/in/fplitzko

3. Luck = Opportunity + Preparation
– somewhere on the interwebs

4. =
FOUNDER’s
BBQ
Aachen
1/2

5. We make hardware
less hard!

6. The collaboration platform for professional
hardware engineering

7. The collaboration platform for professional
hardware engineering
The specification-based search engine
for electronic circuits

8. Part I: Lessons learned

9. Lesson Learned I:
Align with Co-Founders on the problem
and solution you are solving
The collaboration platform for professional
hardware engineering

10. Lesson Learned II:
You define focus, which means you
could focus on anything, DON’T! :-)
…

11. Lesson Learned III:
Use customers to understand the process,
not for feature requests

12. Lesson Learned IV:
Take commitments from people
on conferences with a grain of salt

13. Lesson Learned V:
Find mentors but select them carefully
(Vampire alarm!)

14. Q&A