Presented by Arman Suleimenov (CEO, ZeroToOneLabs.com, N17R.com) at Bolashak Business Forum in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Details: https://hipo.kz/bolashak-business-forum/

1. How to create the next Instagram in Kazakhstan?

2. Our first steps on the path to build mobile apps
reaching millions of people worldwide.

3. ‘We have no idea what we’re doing and it’s
awesome!’ -Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit

4. Arman Suleimenov
• CEO, ZeroToOneLabs.com
• Founder, nFactorial Incubator (N17R.com)
• Computer Science, Princeton University, 2012
• Founding team, Collections (YC S12), 2012-2013,
Mountain View, CA
• ACM ICPC World Finals 2009, 2011

5. ZeroToOneLabs.com

7. Kelin - mobile only social network for women.
~180,000 users, 310,000+ secrets.
iOS and Android: http://bit.ly/get-kelin

9. Kanji Ninja - fun game to learn 1000+ Japanese
characters. http://bit.ly/get-kanji-ninja

12. Team of 13. Totally bootstrapped (w/o any external
funding).

13. nFactorial Incubator (N17R.com)

15. Make School + Y Combinator + KZ ≈ N17R.com

16. The mission is to build 50 mobile apps for local and
international audiences with 500,000+ downloads
combined.

17. In 10 weeks.

18. 2015

19. nFactorial Incubator 2015:
• 8 weeks
• 352 applicants (10-58 y.o.)
• 45 students accepted
• 37 iPhone apps built
• ~300,000 total downloads

26. Where are N17R.com 2015 alumni today?

27. Didara Pernebayeva. Nazarbayev University ‘2018.

28. N17R.com 2016:
• 10 weeks
• 650+ applicants (11-44 y.o.)
• 122 people admitted
• June 6 - August 13

30. Project Management

31. Educational games

32. Stress management / meditation

33. Vertical news aggregators

34. Health / fitness / nutrition

35. Messengers

36. Productivity

37. Data analysis

38. Finance

39. ‘We don't make movies to make money, we make
money to make more movies’. -Walt Disney.

40. We’re not playing the lottery.

41. The plan: pragmatically make money on software on
demand and B2B apps. Reinvest the money earned
on more ambitious projects.

42. Our approach in a nutshell: many laser-focused
attempts on app ideas with clear distribution.

43. Join us on this journey to build 50 original mobile
apps this summer!

45. suleimenov@gmail.com