Ciklum Seminar Zurich June 20, 2012 - Marcus Kuhn (connex.io)

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Nearshoring as a Startup Marcus Kuhn Co-Founder & CEO [email protected]; +41 (0)76 378 51 33

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Kann man mit einem kleinen Team von drei Softwareentwicklern starten und erfolgreich Nearshoring betreiben? Marcus Kuhn von connex.io zeigt uns, dass das sehr wohl geht. Die erste Plattform-Version wurde ursprünglich noch von den Gründern selber programmiert. Als es aber Ende 2011 um den zügigen Ausbau der Entwicklungskapazitäten ging, kam für connex.io nur das Nearshoring in Osteuropa in Frage.

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Nearshoring as a Startup

Marcus Kuhn – Co-Founder & CEO [email protected]; +41 (0)76 378 51 33

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The Problem

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Address books are a hassle

* based on http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/03/hiya-whitepages-address-book.html

Peoples biggest problems*:

» Duplicates (50%)

» Keeping it up-to-date (48%)

» Missing data (19%)

» Keeping it all in one place (17%)

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Address books should

manage themselves.

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The Solution

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Connect

One address book, everywhere!

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Funding

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Team

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Stas, Ata, Artyom & Yuri

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Why Nearshoring?

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Co-Founder outside CH

Costs

Always been virtual

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Why Cikum?

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Franco

Own Team Model

No Overhead

Timezone / Location

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Finding our Team

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We defined Requirements

Search and filter by Ciklum

Our Interviews

Our decision

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Organizing

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Chat / Video Call

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Trello

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Github

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So what?

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Excellent People

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Quickly Productive

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No Overhead

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Questions?