Oleg Bogdanov from Evolution Latvia will give a talk "My startup experience and lesson learned" In my talk I would like to show number startup in area of Financial, Social, Marketing, Mobile, Gaming and Gaming startup I participated, its outcomes and lesson learned. Covering old and new way of startups, pitching, rising funds, accelerators and startup toolbox. Oleg Bogdanov - 18 years of extensive IT product/project management experience in software development field. Successfully managed the implementation of enterprise systems for internet payments, internet gaming/gambling, re-insurance and mobile.

1. Oleg Bogdanov
Mobile Product Manager
Evolution gaming

2.  Awards
 2015 EGR Game of the Year
 2014 EGR Software Supplier Of
The Year for the 5th year in a
row
 Employs 1,300 people

3. MY STARTUP EXPERIENCE
Lessons learned

4. AGENDA
 Internet payments
 Targeted marketing
 Social network
 Mobile app
 Game studio
 Toolbox

5. 1 INTERNET PAYMENTS
2000
1st Developer, Manager
& Minor Partner

6. WHERE IS IT TODAY?

7. LESSONS LEARNED 1.1
 Regulations
 Reliability
 Fraud

8. LESSONS LEARNED 1.2
 Legacy system
 Long term strategy
 New horizon

9. “Only a fool learns from
his own mistakes.
The wise man learns from
the mistakes of others.”
― Otto von Bismarck

10. MOBILE TARGETED MARKETING
2007
IT Manager (dev, admin)
Shareholder

11. LESSON LEARNED 2
 Patents
 Growing User base challenge

12. SOCIAL NETWORK
2007
IT Manager

13. GROWTH

15. LESSON LEARNED 3.1
 Time to market: Too Early or
too Late?
 Monetization
Lohmus, Haavel &
Viisemann

16. LESSON LEARNED 3.2
 Big Load, Big Data
 Business analytics
 Pareto principle

18. GARAGE48: JUSTAROUNDME
2012
Visionary entrepreneur /
Project Manager

20. LESSON LEARNED 4
 Startup hackathon
 Prepare you demo backups
 Hybrid/HTML5 App
 Easy come easy go

22. GAMES
2009
Manager / Founder
Social gaming

23. LESSON LEARNED
 Angel investors / Venture Capitalist / Venture
Funds / Seed funds
 Collaboration
 Business Transformation

25. TOOLBOX

26. ONE-PAGE PITCH
• Company summary
• Market problem
• Solution
• Sales channels
• Marketing activities
• Target market and segmentation
• Market size
• Competitors
• Competitive advantage
• Funding needs
• Big picture financial projections
• Key milestones
• Team members and advisers

27. TRELLO

28. LEAN CANVAS

30. STARTUP ACCELERATORS

31. SUM-UP / TAKE AWAY
 It is never late
 End of start-up?
 Start, Keep Focus and MVP (minimal viable prototype)
 Mentors or Start-up Accelerators
 Collaborate, share

32. Q&A