The document summarizes the experience of an entrepreneur participating in the SoftInn MIBPC competition. It describes how participating helped him develop business skills like writing a business plan, financial projections, and public speaking. While nervous, the competition experience was valuable. Though they made mistakes in their presentation and strategy, feedback helped them improve. After competing, they received training and were able to bootstrap their hotel booking platform business, mySoftinn.com.

1. MIBPC: Experience Sharing by jeeshen from mySoftinn.com

2. what’s in it for you? SoftInn MIBPC journey. do and don’t of the competition you will get to know a cool guy.

3. talking about this cool guy… Engineer  Entrepreneur founder of MEngSc avid basketballer

4. what my business plan is all about? helping budget hotels to do better online sales.

5. how it all started?

6. why I decided to take part? i see opportunities Valuable business insights Presentation skill Pre-seed grant Free trainings Networking Communication skill Learn to write business plan Challenge what’s balance sheet?! ROI?! Financial projection?! SWOT?!? RM 7,000 Business Pitching Body language Opportunity to sell my ideas

7. the very first chapter of softinn the only partner in crime – Caren try understand the problem volunteer receptionist at hotel weilia

8. what we did? look at their problem learn how we can help study our competitors formulate our strategy work, work and work.

9. what mistakes we made? we took presentation lightly we took general business approach we did not enough of homework we underestimate the expectations

10. what happened on the competition? the judges !!!

11. The ”pen” presenter the team the ”notes” presenter

12. makes every single drops of sweat worth it

13. that’s it? NO! much more happened after the competition we were sent for training by MDeC we pitched to VCs we bootstrapped and started our business…  www.mySoftinn.com

14. Questions & my answers

16. one last thing take ACTION, puts your idea into reality.