jnaapti's pitch at startup saturday - apr 12th 2014

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  • 1. A Little About Me Name: Gautham Pai Short Summary: Education Entrepreneur, Geek, Loves Free Software Career Path: IBM ISL Ugenie Lulu Semgel Jnaapti Roles: Technical Coach, Product Engineer, Business Development and everything in between

2. About jnaapti = jnaan + praapti It means Acquiring Knowledge We build products to make learning fun and engaging 3. Technology Evolution 4. Technology Evolution 5. Technology Evolution 6. Technology Getting Outdated 7. What technology stack will be used in another 3 years? 8. Problems Technologies are evolving at a very fast pace Technologies may vanish overnight A single popular technology is getting replaced with multiple popular alternatives 9. The Opportunity Businesses are responding by investing more in employee development, with training budgets increasing 15 percent, on average, in 2013. Organizations across the U.S. spent $1,169 per learner, on average, on learning and development (L&D) initiatives in 2013. Demand for skills in computer science, is growing at above- average rates. The Timing Seems Right! Source: Bersin Report - Josh Bersin Forbes 10. Demands on Training Cross-technology training is becoming very common Demand for quality trainers is much greater than the supply Classroom training has a rigid structure does not cater well to the most skilled and the least skilled Re-training is expensive as technology evolves Do you provide training on Hadoop/HBase/Cassandra Hive/Pig and R? Do you provide training on KnockoutJS/NodeJS jQuery and Bootstrap? 11. The Current I am an iPhone Developer I want to learn Android I am a Java Developer I want to learn Android I know MongoDB I want to learn Cassandra One Solution Does NOT Fit All! 12. The solution? 13. Introducing jnaapti Virtual Coach 14. What We Provide I am an iPhone Developer I want to learn Android I am a Java Developer I want to learn Android I know MongoDB I want to learn Cassandra Our Skill Graph takes you through the Shortest Path to your Learning Goal 15. Story so Far Experience of over 1500 hours of classroom training Invested over 1000 hours in developing content 100s of hours spent on research Over 2 years of design, development and testing of the product Product validation is now complete 16. Technologies Trained On 17. Product Features Learn only what you want & what you don't know 18. Product Features Activities derived from Real-Life 19. Product Features Cloud-based Desktop Delivered in your Browser 20. Product Features Client-side Technologies taught with a Simple Editor 21. Product Features In-Browser Terminal for Server-side Technologies 22. Product Features Personalized Review of Solutions by a Coach 23. Training Kids 24. Engineering Students 25. Corporates 26. Our Future Vision Immediate goals (next 2 years) to scale product adoption and to take it global We are a platform. With that in mind: Automate what can be automated Provide tools to make it easy to adopt Scale to as many verticals as possible Diversify on customer segments 27. Turing's Test for Machine Intelligence Computer Human Judge 28. jnaapti's Test for Virtual Coaching Virtual Coach Learner Coach