How I Grew in Tech - A Startup Story in 3 Acts

Slides to the talk I gave at Women Techmakers event at Google Singapore. https://www.womentechmakers.com/

Transcript

1. @elishatan How I Grew in Tech A Startup Story in 3 Acts by Elisha Tan Founder, Learnemy
2. @elishatan Act 1: Growing in Skills The Journey Begins
3. @elishatan Check out my mad tech skills yo
4. Online marketplace for in-person classes
5. @elishatan You don’t need to be a programming expert
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9. @elishatan Why should you, the founder, learn how to code? 1. Communicate with developers 2. Test ideas quickly 3. Make better business decisions
10. @elishatan Programming is easy to pick up, hard to master. But it’s learnable!
11. @elishatan rails new my_app rails g scaffold notebook title:string content:text
12. @elishatan You don’t need to be a programming expert
13. @elishatan Act 2: Growing in the Community A Roller Coaster Ride
14. elisha@learnemy.com @elishatan
15. @elishatan The community wants you to succeed
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17. @elishatan www.railsgirls.com/Singapore
18. @elishatan The community helped me get 625% growth
19. @elishatan The community helped me fixed my bugs
20. @elishatan Growth is still slow :(
21. @elishatan I went to Silicon Valley for 3 months, interning at the Founder Institute.
22. @elishatan Ron Conway • Ben Horowitz • Adeo Ressi • Keith Rabois • Aaron Levie • Sam Altman • Phin Barnes • Will Bunker • Dan Hoffer
23. @elishatan The community wants you to succeed
24. @elishatan Act 3: Growing in Contribution The Next Big Thing
25. @elishatan Pivot or Persevere?
26. @elishatan I decided to kill my startup
27. @elishatan Pain
28. @elishatan Killing my startup is the hardest thing I’ve done
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30. @elishatan I have a new job, yay!
31. @elishatan Share, help. Because you don’t know who might just need it.
32. @elishatan ! elisha@learnemy.com @elishatan !