This slide deck is the introduction for a startup incubation program aimed at founders and future entrepreneurs.
Week1: What is a startup and lessons learned
*The slide materials are based on my startup and entrepreneurial experiences.
I put this presentation together because I kept getting asked what a tech startup was. I realized if the mission we had with The Phat Startup was ever going to create entreprenerus instead of just entertaining the ones that already exsist, we had to educate. So here is a general description of a tech startup that I will use to speak to people in urban communities.
Why do we start startups? A good question for the inaugural class of the NYC Media Lab. Covering Motivation, Lean, Business Model Canvas, the Rich/King Dilemma, and Scale Outcomes
• Who is an Entrepreneur ?
• The reality of a making money
• What kind of business should I start?
• What are the biggest challenges to starting a business?
• Where can I get money for my business?
• The 4 Crucial Aspects of a business
I put this presentation together because I kept getting asked what a tech startup was. I realized if the mission we had with The Phat Startup was ever going to create entreprenerus instead of just entertaining the ones that already exsist, we had to educate. So here is a general description of a tech startup that I will use to speak to people in urban communities.
Why do we start startups? A good question for the inaugural class of the NYC Media Lab. Covering Motivation, Lean, Business Model Canvas, the Rich/King Dilemma, and Scale Outcomes
• Who is an Entrepreneur ?
• The reality of a making money
• What kind of business should I start?
• What are the biggest challenges to starting a business?
• Where can I get money for my business?
• The 4 Crucial Aspects of a business
The Archimedes Project: Developing Enterprises, the Lean WayGYK Antler
The Archimedes Project is a social enterprise competition with the goal of ending Cholera in Haiti. In early November 2013, they brought together people with experience in business, academia, government, and non-profits. Teams made up of people from different sectors worked intensely to design an innovative, actionable, sustainable, scalable social enterprise that can stop the spread of cholera in Haiti. By bringing together dreamers, thinkers, makers and doers from across sectors, they created something that never would have emerged without that collaboration.
In two days, participants built a social enterprise. Within 365 days it will be on the ground.
This presentation was an overview of modern techniques for getting companies off the ground, drawing from key principles found in Business Model Generation, Lean Startup, and Customer Development.
Archimedes said that one man could move the world given a strong enough lever and a firm point on which to place it.
The number one cause of startup death is premature scaling. In this session, we talk about the importance of customer validation and timing in your go-to-market strategy. The most effective growth strategy for your startup will depend on the market in which you operate and the stage of your business, and knowing which lever for growth you can pull. We’ll cover all this and more in Scaling Your Startup.
Key topics: Growth strategy, calculating risk, accessing new markets
Innovation starts with the working backwards from the customer. In this session, we will share how this approach plus culture and other mechanisms can enable everyone to be an innovator. Hear about how your company can build an effective system and an environment that will foster and support human creativity and drive technological progress.
Speaker: Dipen Mehta, Head of Digital Innovation, APAC, AWS
The number one cause of startup death is premature scaling. In this session, we talk about the importance of customer validation and timing in your go-to-market strategy. The most effective growth strategy for your startup will depend on the market in which you operate and the stage of your business, and knowing which lever for growth you can pull. We’ll cover all this and more in Scaling Your Startup.
Key topics: Growth strategy, calculating risk, accessing new markets
Finding the right people and encouraging them to join your business is one of the most common challenges we see across our clients - it is as critical as finding the right customers. The cost of a bad hire is estimated to be 15 times their annual salary - so how do you begin to get it right?!
Projects to Promotions, LLC helps non healthcare and healthcare business entrepreneurs with training, podcasts, workshops, seminars, coaching, teleconferences, etc
It is a given that we will all exit our business at some point - willingly or not! - and it is never to soon to start planning that exit.
There is a link at the end of this deck to the associated blog and webinar recording
Incubators, Accelerators and Startups - From a Founder Perspective @ Startup ...Arjun Pillai
The presentation was handled for Startup Mantra 2014, the annual event of Kerala Startups. The slides talk about incubators, accelerators, their advantages, disadvantages, how to evaluate and some tips.
How to launch your web business idea without programming. The talk focuses on doing customer development in order to find that first paying customer. More details can be found in the LaunchBit Startup Guide at http://guide.launchbit.com
Idea to Success, a Guide for First Time EntrepreneursGaurav Oberoi
Learn the steps involved in going from having a great idea, to building a successful startup around it, from an entrepreneur who has sold two internet companies in the last four years.
The Archimedes Project: Developing Enterprises, the Lean WayGYK Antler
The Archimedes Project is a social enterprise competition with the goal of ending Cholera in Haiti. In early November 2013, they brought together people with experience in business, academia, government, and non-profits. Teams made up of people from different sectors worked intensely to design an innovative, actionable, sustainable, scalable social enterprise that can stop the spread of cholera in Haiti. By bringing together dreamers, thinkers, makers and doers from across sectors, they created something that never would have emerged without that collaboration.
In two days, participants built a social enterprise. Within 365 days it will be on the ground.
This presentation was an overview of modern techniques for getting companies off the ground, drawing from key principles found in Business Model Generation, Lean Startup, and Customer Development.
Archimedes said that one man could move the world given a strong enough lever and a firm point on which to place it.
The number one cause of startup death is premature scaling. In this session, we talk about the importance of customer validation and timing in your go-to-market strategy. The most effective growth strategy for your startup will depend on the market in which you operate and the stage of your business, and knowing which lever for growth you can pull. We’ll cover all this and more in Scaling Your Startup.
Key topics: Growth strategy, calculating risk, accessing new markets
Innovation starts with the working backwards from the customer. In this session, we will share how this approach plus culture and other mechanisms can enable everyone to be an innovator. Hear about how your company can build an effective system and an environment that will foster and support human creativity and drive technological progress.
Speaker: Dipen Mehta, Head of Digital Innovation, APAC, AWS
The number one cause of startup death is premature scaling. In this session, we talk about the importance of customer validation and timing in your go-to-market strategy. The most effective growth strategy for your startup will depend on the market in which you operate and the stage of your business, and knowing which lever for growth you can pull. We’ll cover all this and more in Scaling Your Startup.
Key topics: Growth strategy, calculating risk, accessing new markets
Finding the right people and encouraging them to join your business is one of the most common challenges we see across our clients - it is as critical as finding the right customers. The cost of a bad hire is estimated to be 15 times their annual salary - so how do you begin to get it right?!
Projects to Promotions, LLC helps non healthcare and healthcare business entrepreneurs with training, podcasts, workshops, seminars, coaching, teleconferences, etc
It is a given that we will all exit our business at some point - willingly or not! - and it is never to soon to start planning that exit.
There is a link at the end of this deck to the associated blog and webinar recording
Incubators, Accelerators and Startups - From a Founder Perspective @ Startup ...Arjun Pillai
The presentation was handled for Startup Mantra 2014, the annual event of Kerala Startups. The slides talk about incubators, accelerators, their advantages, disadvantages, how to evaluate and some tips.
How to launch your web business idea without programming. The talk focuses on doing customer development in order to find that first paying customer. More details can be found in the LaunchBit Startup Guide at http://guide.launchbit.com
Idea to Success, a Guide for First Time EntrepreneursGaurav Oberoi
Learn the steps involved in going from having a great idea, to building a successful startup around it, from an entrepreneur who has sold two internet companies in the last four years.
Starting a business...a guide on what to consider, brand identity, financing, culture, marketing, plus more. Includes interactive tools for you and your team.
Pubcon Austin presentation - SEO Campaign Management : How Not to Get Fired. Presentation includes, internal set-up and seo agency management tools, platforms for seo success, tools to stay smart on seo trends, how to add value as a seo consultant, and seo audit examples. For more information follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jloomstein and www.twitter.com/crown_partners.
Steve Phipps of LunaWeb presents to the Sales and Marketing Society of Memphis. How to evaluate your website's performance in terms of lead generation and what tools you can use to ramp up your website as a lead generation tool.
This session will discuss dynamic shopping features for affiliate websites: banners vs. dynamic content, duplicate content, SEO & conversion impact, and merchant relationship impact, and reporting.
Kristopher B. Jones, President & CEO, Pepperjam Network (Twitter @pepperjamceo) (Moderator)
Mike Allen, President, Shopping-Bargains.com, LLC (Twitter @mta1)
Anthony Bajoras, President & Co-Founder, m o v e software
Sal Conca, Senior Media Manager, NETexponent
Jessie Jones, CEO & Founder, PopShops.com
Should you turn that idea into a business? How do you turn that idea into a business?
This webinar walks you through day by day how to start your business or startup.
Week 9: Team and how to find a Co-FounderJin Tanaka
Just the beginning of your journey, it is not easy to persuade someone who join your journey as a Partner/Co-Founder.
The question is how to do it and who you should select to avoid -co-founder divorce
How can you deliver your idea clearly to investors? Without having a proper format or compelling story, it may increase the likeliness of the faiuler. Any of the startups have their own unique story to pitch!
If you want to grow your business, it is crucial that you understand all KPIs and what's going on with your product with data too. Without any numbers in your startup, literally, you are flying your airplane without an attitude indicator
Building the product that your users love and willing to tell other people about your product is the key growth KPI and a growth equation for any product. But, the question is how to make a plan for Growth Hacking for your startups.
After finding out what is the value of users, another important thing for startups is to have a distribution plan: does your product have a viral feature? If not, how to get a first user and customer?
Before you start to code or build something, it is essential that you need to find out who is the potential users, what their problem is, and why it is a problem for them. To validate your problem and find the right one for aspiring founders.
Being entrepreneur for future entrepreneursJin Tanaka
This is an Epilogue for aspiring founders.
Just sharing the info about who I was and what I did as an Entrepreneur. Nothing is going to stop you and your passion.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
8. Highlights
Good:
- 200 people matchmaking event
- Four times a year
- Per event, revenue was 10k
- Yearly income was over 40k USD
for three years
- Very very good retention rate
(repeat customers)
Bad:
- Didn’t scale
- Didn’t have a scalable business
model
- Didn’t have any way to leverage
customer’s love and feedback
10. Highlights
Good:
- Faced the problem and knew the
problem
- Developed a service to sell before
building something (corporation,
website, product)
- Designed a user experience
- Knew where to get customers
- Revenue since day one
Bad:
- Didn’t have an engineer
- Had “Co-Founder”
- Thought about “competitor” too
much
12. Highlights
Good:
- Had a team
- Pitched to investor
- Shipped the product
- Spoke to many Japanese tour
guides, understood market
Bad:
- There is no use-case
- There are no data
- Not sure there is a need or not
14. Highlights
Good:
- Joined Yelp Hackathon
- Launched the product
- Tested the ideas with users
- Got user interviews for the product
- Got 50 users
- Made the database by ourselves
Bad:
- Weekly retention was 0%
- Relied only on API for increasing
database
- Didn’t think about the user’s
motivation for coming back to the
product
16. Highlights
Good:
- Got a million users
- Became an influencer for a new
platform
- Had a clear business model
- Tested the business model, 1.7%
click rate for branded ads
- Raised money from investors
- Kept talking to users pre-launch
and post-launch
Bad:
- The platform didn’t grow
- Did not build the sticky product
before scaling
- Took for granted the thing the
investor said
- Could not close acquisition
17. Why I failed
● My benchmarks were wrong (find the co-founder, have a technical person,
raise money from VCs, and have a scalable product since Day 1)
● Hired the wrong co-founder
● Didn’t test idea as a hypothesis before building product
● Focused on wrong metrics (vanity metrics)
● Didn’t research competitors properly and deeply
● Didn’t know platform risk (API regulation)
● Didn’t focus on specific users who loved the product a lot
● Investor relationship and how to raise money
18. Lessons learned
● Don’t believe startup myths
● Test your hypothesis
● Do something that doesn’t scale
● Have a lean mindset
● Hack your ideas and processes
● Build something people really love
● Have right metric and growth equation
● Find out the risk: market risk or execution risk
● Ask the right questions to the right people
● Create a network: investors and experienced entrepreneurs who went through
the same process
19. Test your hypothesis
● Who has a problem (describe user or customer persona)
● What is the problem (simple sentence)
● And why is there a problem now?
(Don’t think about the solution yet)