Do you believe that startup is really match your expectation? Find it out in this slide

1. Paiboon Panusbordee
@paiboonpan
Facebook.com/paiboonpa
CTO Levelup Plus Co., Ltd.

2.  CPE19 Kasetsart University
 Co-founder Levelup Studio for 7 years
 Co-founder Levelup Plus for 4 years
 CTO, Software Architect

3.  Planet that have many creatures
 Cybermon
 Pokdeng (Thai casino card game)
 Warrior Tales Fantasy
 Levelup Plus is invested by

4. Dream!

5. Freedom!Money!
Fame!

6. I’m gonna be No.1!

7. Boring Boss?
Boring Parents?

12. Startup success rate is 10%

16.  Money
 Time, Exertion, Responsibility
 Experience
 Team
 Goal
 Passion
 Business Plan
 Leave Plan

17.  Parents
 Personal Savings
 Investor
 Loan
 Government Support
 Crowdfunding
 Startup Competition

18.  Parents
 Personal Savings -> Current Salary, Outsource
 Investor -> Connection
 Loan -> Leading Rate, Asset Lending
 Government Support -> Full business plan+MVP
 Crowdfunding -> If you late, backer will curse
you and lose branding
 Startup Competition -> Late money given
 Money left in the account divided by expense per
month = Time before a startup die and you still
have income to buy food for yourself

19.  10-14 Work hours per day, 6-7 work days per
week
 Do not go home if you cannot fix the bugs.
 If server crashed, you need to fix it before
you can go to bed
 Girlfriend/Boyfriend Time?
 Family Time?
 Travel with friend?

20.  Knowledge outside the class always have to
update
 When the technology changes, you need to
abandon them and learn new things
 Explore the world. Don’t live in your dream.
 Open your mind and collect veteran
experience to avoid same mistake
 If you take a rest, competitors will get ahead
of you!
 If you never take work as freelance or sales
before, don’t try to run a startup

21.  Business
 Technical (Frontend/Backend)
 UI/UX
 Marketing
 Accounting
 Financial
 Support
 (Game Design)
 (Graphic Design)
 Teamwork!
 What’s about your prefer position that you want
to spend your whole time with?

22.  Change the world!
 You excite about it. The world need it.
 You have Domain Expert on your product
 What do you want the world to remember you
as?

23.  Long-term Goal
 Short-term Goal
 MileStone
 Team understand
 If something go
wrong, pivot it

24.  Where is your customer?
 ** Do customers need your product? Is it just your own
imagination?
(FYI to Research: Lean Startup, Lean Startup Machine)
 How do you promote your products?
 How to make income?
 How to build a server to support 1 thousand concurrent
users?
 How do you divide up works to the team?
 How many people do you need? When would your team
scale up?
 If you do not make enough profit, do you have a backup
plan?

25.  How many months would your startup end up
in a loss consecutively and you will close it
down?
 When startup close, what will you do next to
keep up your life?
 If there’s some member want to leave in the
middle way, how would you calculate share
price?
 Don’t think it cannot be yourself. Some day, if
you have an accident, you will be forced to
leave.

26.  Lots more effort than other people
 Winner is the one who can adapt to the change
 Multiple skills require not only your expert skill
 Support your employees and listen to them. Not
just order
 Ready to fail whatever times it take
 Shouldn’t have any debts for car or house
 Run startup when you do not have your own
family and children is the best timing. You will be
able to get up very quickly
 Very short time to spare with your friends. Don’t
think about your girlfriend/boyfriend time
 Parent permission

27. จาก: page I am a programmer I control Your Life

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29.  Planet that have many creatures
 Cybermon
 Pokdeng (Thai casino card game)
 Warrior Tales Fantasy
 Levelup Plus is invested by

30.  Umbo!
 Twit2kill
 Places for sale
 Mass Add
 War Game
 Flash Book
 Kingdom Quests
 Pets War (Asura Farm)
 General
 Zombies Blast
 Run! Dapper Run!
 Dungeon X

31.  Won the game online category in the national
contest by SIPA and got 500,000 Baht as reward
 Facebook is still blue ocean at that time. We’re the
first Facebook game developer in Thailand
 Publisher interested in us immediately
 We got funding from publisher to advertise
 New idea, new to market. Very easy to do
 Big announcement in Thailand Game Show event
 Failed…

32.  Lots of time to spend with your friends
 Guarantee income every months with bonus
 Credit money for car and house
 Absence quota day
 Stability
 Choosable workplace
 Low responsibility, just follow an order
 Just do your prefer position, don’t have to do
multiple positions
 Don’t have to think if you still be able to pay
yourself and your employees’ salary or not
 Automatically increasing salary every years

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