5. Context - Wiredcraft & PM2
● Student exchange in Shanghai
● Worked for Wiredcraft
○ Process management
○ Bus system
○ Wide range of technologies and concepts
● Developed PM2
Ronan Berder
Founder
Quentin Berder
CEO
Vincent Viallet
Co-Founder
6. Context - PM2 ?
● PM2 is an application process manager
● Open Source software
○ Published on GitHub
● Publish an article on YC news
○ 70k+ visits in 3 hours
Something began
7. Context - Evolution to now - PM2
● Downloaded more than 220.000 times
○ International
● Used by big companies
● Popular among Node.JS users
● Popular on GitHub (5300+ stars)
http://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=pm2
8.
9. Context - Opportunities around PM2
● PM2 has traction
● How to make a viable business around PM2
Asking to the community!
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Putting a survey on the PM2 documentation
17. Thinking & Working
● Developing it with feedback
○ Creating the first user interface
○ Building the first interaction between PM2 and (the
future) Keymetrics
● Seeing PM2 downloads growing every day
● Drafting a first business plan
○ Marketing strategies
○ Enhancing the survey
○ Competitors
Worked at PAPER + TOAST co working space in Kuala Lumpur for one month
26. Finding our first office and mentors
Yann Gozlan
Founder at Creative Valley
Arnaud-Guilhem LE RIBAULT
Mentor
Guillaume Boiret
Mentor & Facilitator
27. Getting more people involved
Pierre Entremont
Advisor
HEC
e-founder
Konrad Grieger
McKinsey associate
Business planning
Luisa Herandez
Market Intern
Sciences PO
Joni Shkurti
Epitech/42
Talented developer
36. Being accepted to a famous accelerator
Accelerator at New York
7 conf calls
Start in January 2015
37.
38. Facts
We are going to NYC the 28th december 2014
The accelerator program will begin the 20th january 2015
We train a team for the R&D lab in Paris
Our second company in Delaware is being built
In 4 days we got 140 users registered with 90% linking retention rate
PM2 download between 1.000 to 2.000 per day
We plan to transform 1% of this download to clients
Big data is used to make Keymetrics unique
A logo is being redesigned
The product will be launched in January 2015 with Node 0.12 being released