Showing an outlook of what Hong Kong Computer Science students need to know before they look for a job basing on opensource type of view.

1. Open Source Future vs
Personal Future
Aug, 2014
神翻譯: 開源錢途? 關我鬼事咩?

2. WHAT
KIND
OF
JOB?
Global
View
of
Employment

3. HONG KONG SOFTWARE MARKET
How much are you going make?
http://www.hkfashiongeek.com/2011/07/hero-­‐shots.html

4. What is the market look like now?
http://hk.jobsdb.com/hk/en/staticcontent/job-­‐seeker-­‐salary-­‐survey/2014/salary-­‐bonus-­‐and-­‐double-­‐pay.htm#engineering

5. How many people in there?

7. You know where you are now?
> Junior
– 8K to 18K to 28K
– 50% below
• 2K steps
• 8K – 170
• 10K – 440
• 12K – 920
• 14K – 1500
• 16K – 1900

8. Post Employment Economy
Hack you mean terminator is going to kill us all?

9. Take a look at US?
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/the-­‐post-­‐employee-­‐economy-­‐why-­‐sky-­‐high-­‐profits-­‐are-­‐here-­‐to-­‐stay/259564/
Profit
Salary
vs
GDP

10. Is working for someone the only option?

11. How fast and how many times can we fail?
> Soho? How much are you earning?
– Good company Average PE = 20 months income
> Co-Founder? How much do you need to invest?
– Paul Gramham 1 / ( 1 – N )
> Incubator? How much share you need to sell out?
– 4-7% in the silicon valley
> How many pivot can you do?
– MVP in 3 months? 6 months? What’s the different?

12. MERITOCRACY
How many certification do you have?
http://www.hkfashiongeek.com/2011/07/hero-­‐shots.html

13. Indicator (指標) vs Goal (目標)
> What is your Goal? Philosophical problem?
> Money != Happiness ? So what?
> How are you investing your time?
> Why someone invest you?

14. The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us

15. TECHNOLOGY TREND
Can you predict your future?
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/19/139779301/foreign-­‐policy-­‐a-­‐predictable-­‐future-­‐for-­‐technology

16. CLOUD COMPUTING
Yeah I heard of openstack and ?

17. What are the five essential characteristics
> On Demand Self service
> Board network accessible
> Resource Pooling
> Rapid elasticity
> Measured Service

18. Who get the most benefit of?
> Enterpise?
> SMB?
> Startup?
> Individual?

19. Open Source tech related to Cloud

20. BIG DATA ….
Yeah I heard of hadooand ?

21. What is big data?
> High Volume
> High Velocity
> High Variety
> ….. Veracity

22. Who get the most benefit of?
> Enterpise?
> SMB?
> Startup?
> Individual?

24. MCOMMERCE O2O
Yeah I heard of Taobao and ?

25. Getting Offline User from Online
> 6Million Traveler going to 三亚 alone.
> Create a mobile application to get user before they go aboard to
enjoy Duty Free program
> Close to 200 branches to gain user everyday and provide a
uniform shopping experience online and offline, inland or travel
aboard

26. China Traveller Market is not as big as Outside
> http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-
cnt.aspx?id=20130905000068&cid=1202
China Duty Free market
IDC, Aug, 2013
Trends
> Retail sales of tax-free goods in China totaled
16.8 billion RMB in 2013
> Expected growth to 30 billion RMB in 2015
> London alone 2.78 billion RMB from Chinese
tourists each year. Chinese tourists comprise 1%
of airport shoppers but account for 25% of
revenue.
> Note:
> Shanghai Free Trade Zone only entitle
5% import value-added tax rate
Source:
IDC
China
Software
Outsourcing
markets
2012-­‐2017,
Aug
update
2013
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
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100000
120000
140000
160000
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Revenue
Growth

27. Offline to Online market
> IoT & M2M communication market in 2011 was
worth $44 billion. Expected to $290 billion in 2017
CAGR of 30.1%
Number of Connected Objects Expected to
Reach 50billion by 2020
Cisco, 2013
Trends
> There are 8.7 billion connected object in 2012
and Cisco expect it will growth over 50 Billion in
2020.
> Startup are creating lots of IoT object from
Kickstarter and Indiegogo crowded funding
platform to test the market with.
> Note:
> B2B focus area suggested by business
insider are
> Connected Advertising
> Intelligent traffic management
> Waste Management
> Smart electricity grid
> Industrial control
Source:
Markets
and
Markets

29. MICRO PAYMENT
Yeah I heard of Paypal and ?

30. Bitcoin Shop in the world

31. What else?
> Litecoin
> Peercoin
> Primecoin
> Quarkcoin
> Feathercoin
> Novacoin
> Megacoin

32. HARDWARE SOFTWARE
Haha this is what I’m doing!

33. Nest

34. phantom

35. Fitbit

36. Lock8.me

37. Arduino

38. Raspberry Pi

39. PICK YOUR OWN FIGHT
Do whatever you wanted to!

40. Why Open Source is useful?
> Faster Time to
Market
> Stable and Tested
> Highly customizable
> Use at zero cost
> Is it your core value?
> Front end
– Boostrap.js, jQuery
> Back end
– Drupal, WordPress

41. Why SaaS is useful?
> Scale and Cost
> Rent vs Buy
> Partner and Ecosystem
> Is it your core value?
> User information
– Launchrock
> Billing
– Chargify, Spreedly, Recurly,
CheddarGetter
> Customer Support
– LiveChat, WeChat, Twilio, ZenDesk,
desk.com:
> Online Storage
– Wufoo, BaiduYun
> Big Data
– Kissmetrics, mixpanel, GoodData,
RJ Metrics

42. Why using Online Marketing?
> Professional ROI
> Looking good =
Profession
> Marketing
– Facebook, Twitter,
WeChat
> Creating Video
– Grumo Media, Epipheo
Studios, and wdysd
> CrowdFunding
– Kickstarter, Indigogo,
FlyingV, DemoHours