1. Leave your mark
Tiago Fernandes
taggeo@taggeo.org
www.taggeo.org
ISELTech’13

2. Entrepreneurship

6. How I’m becoming an entrepreneur

7. My grandparents had their own
companies

8. My parents have their own
company

9. My turn

11. Geo-localized information

12. Geo-localized information
What is happening around you

13. Geo-localized information
What is happening around you
What you are interested in

14. Geo-localized information
What is happening around you
Social networking
What you are interested in

15. Geo-localized information
What is happening around you
Social networking
Flexible and extensible platform
What you are interested in

16. Real-life situation

17. This is Anthony

18. Anthony uses
Taggeo

19. Anthony is on his way to
work and he suspects
nothing

20. Anthony receives a
notification in Taggeo of
something happening
nearby!
!

21. “Hey, join us at the
party tonight! Free
drinks for everyone!”

22. Users may leave their own messages
Every user may become an information source himself and leave a
message in its physical location

23. And also…

24. Social Gamification
Create your own quests and challenge your friends!

25. The idea

26. Appeared in 2007

27. Early development in 2009

28. Market in 2013

29. What I knew about
entrepreneurship when I started…

31. What I know about
entrepreneurship now!

36. But…

37. Entrepreneurship is hard

38. Taxes

39. Laws

40. Employees

41. Partners

42. Clients

43. Stakeholders

44. Hiring/Firing

45. Leadership

46. Learn to say no!

47. Money

48. Competition

49. “Entrepreneurship is only for rich
people”

50. The other hand

51. Family

52. Friends

53. People you love

54. Entrepreneurship is really hard

55. Why?

56. “I could work for someone else”

57. “Maybe my idea is not that good”

58. “I will never make it…”

59. Don’t be an entrepreneur!

60. Unless…

61. You have a dream

62. You have passion

63. You have faith in your idea

64. You believe in your idea

65. You will feel incomplete if your work
for someone else

66. You!

67. Idea

68. Ideas are useless

69. Ideas are misleading

70. Everyone has ideas

71. Work

72. Prototype

73. Build

74. Make it happen!

75. Now!

76. But…
(there is always one)

77. You need money

78. …or do you?

79. Investment

80. Business Angels
Venture Capitals
etc…

81. Maybe they don’t understand your
idea/product/service

82. They don’t need to understand your
idea/product/service

83. Companies/Individuals

84. Make money through investment

85. Makes perfect sense

86. Necessary

87. Actually great for everyone
(when done right)

88. Strings attached

90. Refused investiment

91. Investment conditions did not meet
our strategic needs or our vision

92. Never forget

93. This is your idea

94. This is your work

95. This is your life

96. Never lower your head

97. A “not-very-happy” perspective

98. Not everything is bad…

99. Realization

100. Small victories

101. Huge victories

102. Your first client

103. Partners

104. Great people

105. Experience of a lifetime

106. Living your dream

107. Remember I mentioned partners?

110. Visibility

111. Profile on Bizspark Connect
Offers and events on Bizspark
Connect
Investment
Find human resources

112. Software

113. Full access to MSDN
Development tools and production
for 3 years
Windows Azure

114. Support

115. Professional technical support
Invitation to startup events
Help from the nice guys at
Microsoft

116. Professional technical support
Invitation to startup events
Help from the nice guys at
Microsoft

117. Taggeo + Microsoft

118. What is holding you back?

119. Fear?

120. You may be fired

121. The company may fail

122. Career progression

123. Possibly can’t do what you love

124. Stop

125. Take advantage of the future

126. Change

127. You matter

128. Invest in you!

129. Leave your mark

130. Thank you!

131. Leave your mark
Tiago Fernandes
taggeo@taggeo.org
www.taggeo.org
ISELTech’13