Waking the Hacker & Entrepreneur in You

Supporting presentation for my talk @ Technopreneur 2012 at Govt. Model Engineering College, Kochin

Transcript

1. Waking the
   Hacker & Entrepreneur
   in You
   by King Sidharth
   for Technopreneur 2012
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2. Who the hell am I?
   • Designer, Artist & Entrepreneur
   • Founded a teen magazine in 2008
   ( thefriendz.biz)
   • Worked with several business on design &
   money making.
   • Working on ClearTax.in with Archit Gupta
   • Hacking @ Besperk
   • Regular college going guy like you
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3. What Hacking is not
   Hacking != Cracking
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4. The Outlaw Nerds
   I am one, you?
   Hackers are...
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5. Story of AirBnB
   Fundraising
   What hacking is about
   Hackers are mind-blow-ingly smart
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6. the Social Network?
   Hackers are builders
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7. How to be a Hacker?
   Question the un-questionable
   Leonard DaVinci, Galileo, Shakespeare
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8. Entrepreneurs
   When Nerds make lunch money...
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9. What your package
   really is...
   Rs. 10,00,000 / Year
   52 weeks x 6 days x ~8 hours...
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10. Rs. 400 / hour
    1 lakh / year x 30 years
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11. Hourly rate of a Lassi
    Maker
    Story
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12. Rs. 1,000 / hour
    25 hours of work in 8
    hours
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13. The Secret of Making
    Shit-Loads of
    Money...
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14. Don’t make money!
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15. Make Time
    Use time to Make
    Wealth
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16. Anything valuable
    (Lassi anyone?)
    is Wealth.
    Medium of Exchange is Money...
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17. How entrepreneurs
    make time.
    They buy it!
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18. Create Wealth.
    This event is wealth.
    A software you write is wealth.
    An idea you execute is wealth.
    The book you write is wealth.
    etc.
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19. Problem with 9-5
    college
    Don’t let college get in way of your education
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20. Story of Personal Power
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21. Question the un-questionable.
    Read & Educate yourself.
    Travel & Meet People.
    Write & Sort your Mind.
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22. Questions?
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23. Catch me...
    Twitter: @kingsidharth
    Email: king@kingsidharth.com
    Website: 64notes.com
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