Bust to Boom; Starting 7clusters

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Starting a company and our set of products

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  • 1. Boom To Bust; Starting a High-Tech Startup Mark Iliffe Technical Lead 7clusters Everyday a new way of expression...

2. Who Am I?

  • Technical Lead of 7clusters

3. Computer Science with Management (EU) BSc. 4. OpenStreetMap contributor 5. Keen Motorcyclist and Rugby Player 6. Leo 7. Who is 7clusters?

  • Mainly Computer Science students and graduates augmented by freelance graphic designers...

8. Students from ESIAL, France on a mandated Internship 9. Creating 7clusters

  • Paperwork and Accounting

10. Legalities 11. Deciding a Name Is difficult 12. Banking 13. Domains 14. Server Space Is expensive 15. What is 7clusters?

  • Social Media Development

16. 17. What is 7clusters?

  • Social Media Development

18. Website Design 19. 20. What is 7clusters?

  • Social Media Development

21. Website Design 22. Cartography and Analysis 23. 24. What is 7clusters?

  • Social Media Development

25. Website Design 26. Cartography and Analysis 27. Mobile Development 28. 29. What is 7clusters?

  • Social Media Development

30. Website Design 31. Cartography and Analysis 32. Mobile Development 33. Community Development 34. Open-Source Technology Used...

  • OpenStreetMap

35. -> PostgreSQL 36. -> Mapnik 37. -> OpenLayers 38. Drupal / CakePHP 39. ANDROID 40. OpenOffice 41. Eclipse 42. What is 7clusters?

  • Social Media Development

43. Website Design 44. Cartography and Analysis 45. Mobile Development 46. Community Development 47. Projects 48. Project: Catapult

  • Lost Baggage Game

49. Needs 50. -> Small GPSunit 51. -> Mobile Device 52. ->Cooperative Airlines 53. -> Communication laws? 54. = FAIL 55. Project: Arbois

  • Social Route Sharing

56. Cached Maps 57. ANDROID, then the world 58. Encompasses many technologies 59. Leadership Challenge 60. 61. Our Implemented Stack 62. 63. Arbois ANDROID Prototype 64. Style Over Substance?

  • Why have a style editor?

65. What exists 66. Why should we do this? 67. What licence should we use? 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. Proposed Designs -> 'Clean' -> 'Shaded' -> 'Retro' 73. Current Designs ->' Contrast ' -> 'OSM' 74. Lessons Learnt

  • Romewasbuilt in a day,burnedovernight

75. Project Managementisuseful 76. A community is just that, do not alienate or cajole 77. Good working relationships 78. Good,efficientcommunication is a must 79. Arbois 2.0...

  • More interactive route selection

80. Routing 81. Aid in offering consultancy services using Arbois technology 82. -> Population Density 83. ->Prevalence of Landmarks 84. -> Compatibility with QGIS... 85. 86. Our Future

  • Consulting

87. Continuation of developing our products Arbois 88. Contributing more to community 89. Using data from the Office of National Statistics 90. Get out and never visit the valley of death again... 91. Credits

  • OSM data CC-BY-SA

92. Image of Leicester uploads CC-BY-SA by www.itoworld.com 93. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company 94. - Image of Startup LifeCycle 95. Thank You For Listening, Questions? [email protected] :email www.7clusters.com :web markiliffe :twitter markiliffe :skype 0754 9928802 : mobile 020 81233600 :office