This document provides advice for physicists interested in entrepreneurship. It discusses how starting a startup is similar to choosing a PhD topic, in that one should pick something they are passionate about and define a tractable problem. It also notes that the adoption curve for new products follows a Gaussian distribution, while product sales over time follow a logistic curve. Additional analogies are made between business concepts like disruption, product-market fit, startup financing, and idea replication to physics concepts like quantum tunneling, plasma etching, fusion reactions, and quantum entanglement. The document concludes by providing contact information for a startup company called Warply that is hiring.

1. Entrepreneurship for Physicists

2. who am I ?
• Studied theoretical physics at UoA, NTUA and Cam
• Worked in INP here at Demokritos during my undergrad studies
under Pr. Floratos
• Main research fields: quantum simulation of physical systems,
quantum complexity theory
• CEO at Warply, currently mining big mobile data in advertising
and marketing

3. startup idea is like choosing a PhD topic
• choose something you are passionate about
• take good care in defining a tractable problem
• investigate old ideas
• find something that has massive impact
• define a measurable assumption-testing methodology
• create a roadmap

4. adoption curve is a Gaussian, product sales is a logistic

5. disruption is just like quantum tunnelling

6. product market fit is like plasma etching a semiconductor
“Product/market fit means being in a
good market with a product that can
satisfy that market”
Marc Andreessen

7. startup financing is like a fusion reaction
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8. idea replication is like quantum entanglement
Scaling a Business
Energy required to
propagate chances
=funding

9. We are Hiring
info@warp.ly
warp.ly
facebook.com/warply