Hi! My name is Errol

specialize in business matching at events

Startups!

4 Stories

1st Story – Opportunities

Me before 2012

Aimless after graduation

Complain King

AMSTERDAM

I didn’t get it

NOC

National University of Singapore Overseas Colleges

Fully paid scholarship for one year

Minor in Technopreneurship

A job stint in an overseas startup

STOCKHOLM

Opportunities

2nd Story – Hard work

An opportunity doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard

work.

How did the 3 of us start?

Assignment: Business Plan

1st Business Idea: The Ledge

A problem: Networking at events

Pre-event

Post-event During event

(Follow up) (Leads generation)

What did we do next?

Organized our own event

D.I.Y

1. Startups and developers access platform

2. Choose who they want to meet

3. We would manually compile choices

4. Issue them with personalized meeting schedules

There’s no substitute for hardwork

3rd Story – Taking a step of faith

Same Goals + Same Passion

Traditional way of doing things

Software Magic

MANY FOLDIMPROVEMENT+ =

Silence.

Mum: What’s a startup?

Me: A company mum.

Dad: So you’re going to be your own boss?

Me: Mm, I guess you could put it that way dad.

Dad: How would you pay yourself?

Me: Probably close to nothing for the first few years?

Dad: I see. Give me a job when I retire?

Me: Sure if you want pops!

Dad: And you better pay me well.

> 95% of startups fail

31st July 2013

4th Story – Adapting

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to

change

Conscious effort to be adaptable today

Agile Method

Clients

Match

Sense

Global Perspective

Work Live Network

Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you adapt to it

Thank you!