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Online marketplace for in-person classes
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Online marketplace for in-person classes
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We help learners find instructors easily.
We help instructors to focus on teaching by - Getting them learners - Handling payment - Managing reviews
Online marketplace for in-person classes
@elishatan [email protected]
@elishatan [email protected]
Micro-entrepreneurs with full control of how they exchange their time for money.
Redefining Work
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Founder
Elisha Tan Founder, CEO Growth hacking, Copywriting, UX, Product Design NUS Class of 2010, Psychology. Social media for Chingay 2011.
Timeline
Jul 2011 Learn
programmingSep 2011 Prototype
Oct 2011 Project
developmentApr 2012
LaunchedJan 2011
Find Co-founder
@elishatan [email protected]
What you’re gonna hear
• How to meet programmers and find co-founder
• Should you learn programming? What and how should you learn?
• How to put together a prototype
• My $10, 000 mistake
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Jul 2011 Learn
programmingSep 2011 Prototype
Oct 2011 Project
developmentApr 2012
LaunchedJan 2010
Find Co-founder
Things I’ve learned: - Bring something to the table - Understand why you need a co-founder - How to meet programmers
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What can you bring?
• Marketing
• Sales
• Copywriting
• Network
• Design
• Community
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Compensate your co-founder
• Money
• Equity
• Network
• Knowledge
• Chance to really screw things up
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Bad reasons for recruiting a co-founder
• You want free labor
• You are not committed
• You are insecure
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How to meet programmers
• Join events
• Join them online
• Ask questions
@elishatan [email protected]
Jul 2011 Learn
programmingSep 2011 Prototype
Oct 2011 Project
developmentApr 2012
Launched
Things I’ve learned: - Importance of learning programming - What language to pick
Jan 2010 Find Co-founder
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Should you, or should you not?
Should Should not• If you outsource, you can
tell if you get cheated. • You can’t hire for a job you
don’t know. • You should know your
product. • Fix non-tech problems • Test ideas quickly
• It will take long for you to be proficient in coding.
• Too much time spent
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You are going to be very confused over what language to learn.
Python is so easy to learn! Look at him, he
learned Django in 3 weeks!
RoR is easy to learn and the syntax is
beautiful! Use PHP.
Because Facebook uses PHP.
AngularJS is powerful and easy to
learn.
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Jul 2011 Learn
programmingSep 2011 Prototype
Oct 2011 Project
developmentApr 2012
Launched
Things I’ve learned: - Test a hypothesis - Fake a product
Jan 2010 Find Co-founder
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Before you code...
Learn HTML and CSS so that you can fake it till you make it
- http://www.w3schools.com/
- http://css-tricks.com/
- http://colorschemedesigner.com/
- Learnemy
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Design is hard
You want to be a great artist...
“Good artists copy, great artists steal” - Pablo Picasso
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@elishatan [email protected]
Jul 2011 Learn
programmingSep 2011 Prototype
Oct 2011 Project
developmentApr 2012
Launched
Things I’ve learned: - Prioritise on business value - Know how to control a project
Jan 2010 Find Co-founder
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How I wasted $10, 000
• Spent on features that weren’t important
• Early optimisation
• Spending on front-end developer, mistaking her as a designer
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How this new knowledge helped
• Spent 2 days on the groups feature copying other similar sites
• Made $700+
• Spent $400 and 1 week to get it all done by a programmer
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Jul 2010 Worked for free
Jul 2011 Learn
programmingSep 2011 Prototype
Oct 2011 Project
developmentApr 2012
Launched
Things I’ve learned: - Don’t neglect your beta list - Keep earning - Mentorship
Jan 2010 Find Co-founder
