Talk by Radu Georgescu, Board Member - Vector Technologies (RO), at Stanford on Jan 25 2016, in our session on 'Romania & Turkey :: Wearables & Food Delivery Startups'.
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Radu Georgescu - Vector Watch - Romania - Stanford Engineering - Jan 25 2016
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J a n u a r y 2 5 t h , 2 0 1 6
E u r o p e a n E n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p a n d I n n o v a t i o n
S t a n f o r d S c h o o l o f E n g i n e e r i n g
Radu Georgescu
Founding Partner GECAD Ventures
Board Director Vectorwatch
www.vectorwatch.com
@vector_watch
PLAYING BALL WITH THE BIG BOYS
from Romania
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We are Vectorwatch
5. T H E V E C T O R B R A N D
V E C T O R W A T C H
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Sales > 10,000 units in the first two months
Available on Amazon, BestBuy, Vectorwatch
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Addressing a total global wearables market of $1.6T by 2020
IDC, Morgan Stanley Research
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Great Press
With no marketing budget
8. All Day Activity Tracking
5 ATM
Full 2 Year Warranty
Multi-OS Compatible*
Smart Notifications
30 Day Battery Life
Customizable Faces
Wireless Sync. BTLE
F E A T U R E S & B E N E F I T S
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Data Streams
App Store/Developers
Learning System
Always On Display
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Joe Santana - CEO
Former CEO of Timex Group, internationally experienced CEO and Board Member.
Andrei Pitis – CTO and Founder
Over two decades in senior engineering and management roles.
Serial entrepreneur participating in several starts up in the technology space
Ron Spencer – COO
Previous COO roles in global growth watch companies including Fossil.
Greg Shay – CCO
Ex Vice President of product and business development for Coveroo and Microsoft
Steve Jarvis - Creative Director
Over 19 years of experience in the design and development of accessories.
Leading design at Timex, Nike Vision and Nike Digital Sport (Fuel Band)
Team
10. W A T C H M A K E R A P P
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T h e M o b i l e E x p e r i e n c e
N o t i fi c a t i o n s - T r a c k A c t i v i t y - F a c e / A p p S t o r e - S t r e a m s
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Welcome to Bucharest
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Andrei Pitis Vision:
A watch with 30 day battery life
How it started
13. Fashion or Technology?
Consumer Electronics or Operating System / Full Stack Platform?
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3rd Party
Services
Push Notification
Server
Push
Notification
Server
Cloud
Platform
Cloud
Apps
HTTPS HTT
PS
BTLE
Various
Developers
Ecosystem
VectorOS
14. • Many hardware and traditional watch companies wishing to enter the wearables
market do not have the software competences.
• Current OS solutions for wearables are either too heavy – Android Wear, or not
sufficiently connected, like a handful of RTOS systems for wearables.
• The lack of tailored made solution drives power consumption high.
• Poor battery life is the main reason for consumer returns of smartwatches and
other wearables at retail.
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I N D U S T R Y P R O B L E M – Q U A L I T Y O F T H E O S
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Become the Global Platform of Choice for
Wearables and IoT Devices.
The Vision
17. First create a beautiful watch to demonstrate the technology
Strategy
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Business Model
Consumer Electronics – B2C – this is an enabler
Licensing Full Stack Platform – B2B – core business.
You will see our technology on all the wearables and IoT devices in the coming years.
20. Created a Great Product
Complete it with the Original Vision
Where we are now
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21. Core:
• Team
• Hardware
design
• VectorOS
• Connec7vity
Apps
(iOS,
Android,
Microso?)
• Cloud
• AppStore
• SDK
• Investment
• Corporate
structure
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A c h i e v e m e n t s a f t e r o n l y 1 8 m o n t h s
Fashion
/
Consumer
Electronics:
• Watch
Jewelry
Design
• Watch
Brand
• Produc7on
• Distribu7on
Channel
• Support
• So
many
others,
that
I
don’t
even
remember
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…And Bigger Companies
• Bit Defender – top security company
• Softpedia.com – software catalog
• Liverail - acquired by Facebook in 2014
• Summify – acquired by Twitter in 2012
• RAV – acquired by Microsoft in 2003
• Avangate – acquired by Francisco
Partners in 2013
Picture credit: netocratic.com
26. • Romania’s role in the previous time was technology
(IT) and agriculture;
• Math skills; CS skills;
• Not about numbers, but quality - engineering
innovation;
• Product Development, Early Stage Engineering.
Technology
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27. T H A N K Y O U
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vectorwatch.com