General Principles of Intellectual Property: Concepts of Intellectual Proper...
jnaapti's Pitch at Startup Saturday - Apr 12th 2014
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2. A Little About Me
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Name: Gautham Pai
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Short Summary: Education Entrepreneur, Geek, Loves Free Software
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Career Path: IBM ISL → Ugenie → Lulu → Semgel → Jnaapti
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Roles: Technical Coach, Product Engineer, Business Development
and everything in between
3. About
jnaapti = jnaan + praapti
It means → Acquiring Knowledge
We build products to make learning fun and engaging
9. Problems
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Technologies are evolving at a very fast pace
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Technologies may vanish overnight
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A single popular technology is getting replaced with multiple
popular alternatives
10. The Opportunity
Businesses are responding by investing more in employee
development, with training budgets increasing 15 percent, on
average, in 2013.
Organizations across the U.S. spent $1,169 per learner, on average,
on learning and development (L&D) initiatives in 2013.
Demand for skills in computer science, … is growing at above-
average rates.
The Timing Seems Right!
Source: Bersin Report - Josh Bersin – Forbes
11. Demands on Training
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Cross-technology training is becoming very common
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Demand for quality trainers is much greater than the supply
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Classroom training has a rigid structure – does not cater well to the
most skilled and the least skilled
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Re-training is expensive as technology evolves
Do you provide training on
Hadoop/HBase/Cassandra
Hive/Pig and R?
Do you provide training on
KnockoutJS/NodeJS
jQuery and Bootstrap?
12. The Current
I am an iPhone Developer
I want to learn Android
I am a Java Developer
I want to learn Android
I know MongoDB
I want to learn Cassandra
One Solution Does NOT Fit All!
15. What We Provide
I am an iPhone Developer
I want to learn Android
I am a Java Developer
I want to learn Android
I know MongoDB
I want to learn Cassandra
Our Skill Graph takes you through the
Shortest Path to your Learning Goal
16. Story so Far
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Experience of over 1500 hours of classroom training
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Invested over 1000 hours in developing content
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100s of hours spent on research
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Over 2 years of design, development and testing of the product
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Product validation is now complete
27. Our Future Vision
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Immediate goals (next 2 years) – to scale product adoption and to
take it global
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We are a platform. With that in mind:
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Automate what can be automated
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Provide tools to make it easy to adopt
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Scale to as many verticals as possible
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Diversify on customer segments