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presentation prepared for #iHUB #lviv on 10.10.2015

Fail is the first step toward success

Startup lessons learnederrare humanum est

but we should learn from them

Bootstrap, as long as you can.

Bootstrap until you will know customer acquisition cost

passionate about your idea or stop doing it!

●Solve problem that matters for you●It’s not for money●Do what you love

Find right partnersdo not do it on your own

PARTNERS

TRUSTSHARE VALUES

VALUE for BUSINESS

aligned with same goals1+1+1 should give you more than 3

DO NOT WRITE A BUSINESS PLAN!

WRITE ACTION PLAN! AND

DREAM YOU PLAN

BUILD COMPANYDO NOT BUILD JUST A PRODUCT

BUILD BUSINESSCARE ABOUT CASH FLOW,

ABOUT MISSION, VISION, VALUES

BE as QUICK as possible!!!

and be even quicker than it is possible

SPEED IS THE KEY FACTOR

OF YOUR SUCCESS!!!

GET LEAN●Start validating learning

●Use continuous innovation

IDEA = 0EXECUTION = EVERYTHING

●Talk less, Do more!

Go Out of the office ASAP!

●Talk to your customers●Learn●Test

●Pivot ●Listen to your users and look for recurrent patterns

SALE, SALE, SALE, SALE, SALE, SALE,

START SALE even if you do not have your product yet! SALE!

TEST your IDEA! TEST your PRICE! TEST YOUR BUSINESS MODEL! TEST YOUR PRODUCT!!!

COMMUNICATION is EVERYTHING if it is

RIGHT

LEARNALWAYS LEARN

MAKE RETROSPECTIVE OF YOUR SUCCESS AND FAILSIT’S CONTINUOUS PROCESS

NO BARTER MONEY is MONEY

CLEVER MONEY is BETTER THAN just MONEYBut do not do barter - you will loose

DO NOT HIRE ASHOLESTHEY WILL HIRE ANOTHER ASHOLES

CLIENT SUCCESS= YOUR SUCCESS

DO NOT WORRY TO EARLY ABOUT BIG

PROBLEMS it may kill you… if you will worry about problems that may

kill you in some success scenario to early

DO NOT RUN FOR A BIG FROM EARLY BEGINNING it may cost you a lot of efforts and time with little results in

ROISTART WITH SMALL!!!

BE SEPARATE COMPANYDO NOT INTEGRATE TO MUCH WITH INVESTORS

BUILD SOCIAL CONNECTION

MOTIVATION and EQUITY share equity with the key people

it will open other doors and opportunities

DREAM!DREAM YOUR WEEKLY/ MONTHLY/ YEARLY PLAN

DREAM YOUR GOALSDREAM BIGGER THAN YOU MAY EXPECT

DREAM BIG!!!

Quotes1. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison2. “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill3. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.” - Henry Ford4. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” - Confucious5. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” - Bill Cosby6. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” - Dale Carnegie7. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” - Malcolm Forbes8. “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” - Tony Robbins9. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” - Colin Powell10. “It is fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” - Bill Gates

1.1 “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit.” - Napoleon Hill12. “Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.” - W. Clement Stone13. “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” - Buddha14. “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.” - Abraham Lincoln15. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s ok to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.” - H. Stanley Judd16. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failing is another steppingstone to greatness.” - Oprah Winfrey17. “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” - Zig Ziglar18. “Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.” - George Eliot19. “Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.” - J.K. Rowling20. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan

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10.10.2015