The document provides biographical information about Rohan Perera and Raomal Perera who are experts in design thinking, entrepreneurship, and business innovation. It lists their professional roles and accomplishments, including Rohan Perera serving as the Google Global Sprint Chapter Head in Ireland and facilitating design sprints for various companies, and Raomal Perera being a serial entrepreneur and adjunct professor of entrepreneurial studies.

1. You are never too small
to make a difference
Rohan Perera & Raomal Perera

2. “ If you think you are
too small to make a
difference, try sleeping
with a mosquito.
Dalai Lama XIV

3. Design Sprint Master
• Google Global Sprint Chapter Head – Ireland
• Facilitated Design Sprints with Glandore, Aviva,
Zeeko, Hebe Adventures, Marley Technologies..
• Design Sprint Workshops for Aviva, Science
Foundation Ireland, LinkedIn, Irish Life, IFAC
Accountants, Adapt Centre..
• Trained Design Sprint Facilitators from Dun &
Bradstreet, Davy, Ammeon, UCD, Plusvital, Altify,
MoneyMate, NDRC, Trinity College, Aviva, Poppulo,
FEXCO, JCI, Irish Life, Bearing Point, DoneDeal,
Eneregia, Salesforce, ESB
Rohan Perera
• HEBE Adventures
Entrepreneur
• Godolphin Flying Start Programme, UCD Innovation
Academy, DIT New Frontiers Programme, DIT iCubed
Programme, SEI Impact Programme, UCD Smurfit
MBA, IADT Student Bootcamp , UCD Nova Startup
Stars Programme..
Facilitator of Entrepreneurial Studies
• Glandore, Screen Training Ireland, HSE (Health
Service Executive), DJEI (Department of Jobs,
Enterprise, and Innovation), SEI (Social
Entrepreneurs Ireland), Eli Lilly, Aviva, Irish Life,
Adapt Centre, IFAC, Health Research Board..
Consultant

4. Raomal Perera
Serial Entrepreneur
• ISOCOR (NASDAQ: icor) & Network365/Valista
(Intel)
• INSEAD & UCD
• Business Model Innovation, Lean Startup,
Design Thinking, Design Sprint & Fund Raising
Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurial
Studies
• Clients include MSD (Merck), HP, Irish Film Board
(IFB), HSE (Health Service Executive), Arvato
(Bertelsman), ESB, SFI…
Consultant
• Finalist Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
• Tech Pioneer World Economic Forum
• ISA Award for Outstanding Software Achievement
• Inducted into the ‘Hall of Fame’ Business Excellence
Institute (2018)
Accolades

7. 10 Steps to Product Launch
From Product Concept to Product Launch
Phase 1
Strategic Alignment
& Problem Definition
Phase 2
Ideation & Validation
Phase 3
Scoping, Planning
& Execution

8. Write a Business Plan
Summarise an
opportunity in the
thoroughbred industry
and tell us how you
will seize & execute
this opportunity.

12. Phase 1 Strategic Alignment & Problem Definition

13. 1. Business Model Canvas
2. Value Proposition Canvas
3. Customer Development
1
2
3

14. Source: World Economic Forum

15. How might we tackle the loneliness epidemic?
A study by The Co-op and the British Red Cross reveals over 9 million people in the UK
across all adult ages – more than the population of London – are either always or often
lonely.
Loneliness is emotionally painful and can lead to psychiatric disorders like depression,
anxiety, schizophrenia, and even hallucinatory delirium.
In 2015, researchers at UCLA discovered that social isolation triggers cellular changes
that result in chronic inflammation, predisposing the lonely to serious physical conditions
like heart disease, stroke, metastatic cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Research commissioned by Eden Project initiative The
Big Lunch found that disconnected communities could
be costing the UK economy £32 billion every year.

16. Finding the problem is the hard part.
Instagram Co-Founder Kevin Systrom believes
building solutions for most problems is the
easy part; the hard part is finding the right
problem to solve. Here he opens up about
how he and fellow Co-Founder Mike Krieger
identified the problems they wanted to solve
around sharing photos through mobile
devices. He also reminds entrepreneurs to
embrace simple solutions, as they can often
delight users and customers.
Kevin Systrom and
Mike Krieger
(Instagram Co-Founders)

17. 10 Things I Should Do As An
Entrepreneur

18. “ Entrepreneurship is living a few years of
your life like most people won’t, so that
you can spend the rest of your life like
most people can’t.
Anonymous

19. ENTREPRENEURSHIP

20. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TAKE OWNERSHIP

21. Take Ownership
President Barack Obama on Thursday took the blame for
shortcomings that led to a failed Christmas Day
bombing plot, saying, “The buck stops with me.”

22. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TAKE OWNERSHIP
GET VISUAL

23. Get Visual
I am like a surf rider, carried forward on a crest of a wave. The
wave bearing me has scarcely started its run; those who thought it
was already slackening spoke too soon. I am poised now, in the
precarious, but exhilarating balance, that is the essence of real
living, the antithesis of mere existence. Behind me roars the
reef I have already passed; beneath me the great wave,
as yet barely flecked with foam, lumps its back
still higher from the sea.
And ahead…?

24. Get Visual
We cannot tell; we are too far out to see the unknown
land. It is enough to ride the wave.

25. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TAKE OWNERSHIP
GET VISUAL
SOLICIT SUPERB
SUPPORT

26. “
I need someone who believes that
the sun will rise again but who does
not fear my darkness. Someone who
can point out the rocks in my way
without making me a child by
carrying me. Someone who can
stand in thunder and watch the
lightning and believe in a rainbow.
Joe Mahoney

27. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TAKE OWNERSHIP
GET VISUAL
SOLICIT SUPERB
SUPPORT
TOSS TOXICITY

28. “ It’s often said that you’re the
product of the five people you spend
the most time with. If you allow
even one of those five people to be
toxic, you’ll soon find out how
capable they are of holding you
back.
Dr. Travis Bradberry

29. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TAKE OWNERSHIP
GET VISUAL
SOLICIT SUPERB
SUPPORT
TOSS TOXICITY
PUMP UP THE
POSITIVES

30. Pump Up the Positives
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass.
It is about learning to dance in the rain.

31. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TAKE OWNERSHIP
GET VISUAL
SOLICIT SUPERB
SUPPORT
TOSS TOXICITY
PUMP UP THE
POSITIVESLOG ON THE LAW
OF ATTRACTION

32. Log on the Law of Attraction
Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match
the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot
help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is
not philosophy. This is physics.

33. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TAKE OWNERSHIP
GET VISUAL
SOLICIT SUPERB
SUPPORT
TOSS TOXICITY
PUMP UP THE
POSITIVES
LOG ON THE LAW
OF ATTRACTION
PERSEVERE

34. “ There are no
shortcuts to any
place worth going.
Beverly Sills

35. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TAKE OWNERSHIP
GET VISUAL
SOLICIT SUPERB
SUPPORT
TOSS TOXICITY
PUMP UP THE
POSITIVES
LOG ON THE LAW
OF ATTRACTION
PERSEVERE
PAY ATTENTION

36. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TAKE OWNERSHIP
GET VISUAL
SOLICIT SUPERB
SUPPORT
TOSS TOXICITY
PUMP UP THE
POSITIVES
LOG ON THE LAW
OF ATTRACTION
PERSEVERE
PAY ATTENTION
CONTINUOUSLY
COURSE CORRECT

37. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TAKE OWNERSHIP
GET VISUAL
SOLICIT SUPERB
SUPPORT
TOSS TOXICITY
PUMP UP THE
POSITIVES
LOG ON THE LAW
OF ATTRACTION
PERSEVERE
PAY ATTENTION
CONTINUOUSLY
COURSE CORRECT
CELEBRATE
SUCCESS

38. “
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny
matters compared to what lies within us.
And when we bring this our into the open miracles
happen.
Henry Stanley Haskins

39. Thank you!