21. Curriculum
1. Programming (iOS development): Objective C,
Xcode, git, Parse, etc.
2. Mobile design: UI/UX. Building products people
fall in love with.
3. Traction / growth: getting to the first 1,000 users,
19 marketing channels used by the most popular
iPhone applications.
22. Team
Almas Tuyakbayev, 28
UI/UX Design
• HCI, Carnegie Mellon University.
• Head of the Media Lab at IITU.
• Microsoft Imagine Cup World Finals
2008.
23. Bakytzhan Baizhikenov, 26
iOS development
• Education: London School of Economics,
University of London.
• International Olympiad in Informatics: Gold
2007, Silver 2008, Bronze 2005, 2006.
• Software Engineer, imo.im (2012-2013).
• Founder, Intellection & Crozdesk.com.
24. Zhanserik Kenes, 21
iOS development
• BSc, International IT University.
• Built 8 apps: Being Beethoven,
Persimmon, SafeCity, National Bank
of Kazakhstan, Springfruit, Shopster,
etc.
25. Daulet Kenzhetayev, 21
• iOS/Android development
• CS, Nazarbayev University ‘2017 (on leave)
• Built LonelyKeanu, Kelin (Android)
26. Nurdaulet Bolatov, 17
• iOS development
• Built Syntle.com, Zero Willpower
• 1st place at IV Eurasian Informatics Olympiad
• 3rd place at 13th All-Russian Team Informatics
Olympiad
• Kazakh-British Technical University ‘2018
27. Ayan Yenbekbay
iOS development
• BSc, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• Built 6 apps: Seansy.kz, Kogershin,
Metio, Galileo, Instamaniac, Never
Drink Alone
• Created popular time lapse videos:
vimeo.com/yenbekbay
28. Arman Suleimenov
• CEO, ZeroToOneLabs.com
• MSE, Computer Science, Princeton University
• Past: founding team, Collections (YC S12)
• ACM ICPC World Finals 2009, 2011
• “The Art of Startup” (Nazarbayev University),
PrincetonStartupTV.com,
TheSiliconValleyIntern.com, ZeroToOneTour.com,
TheSummerStartupSchool.com
29. Some of the apps we built before/outside of the
school.
30. Being Beethoven: the to-do list of effective daily habits from the
world’s top performers: Audrey Hepburn, Tim Ferriss, Tony
Robbins, etc..
http://bit.ly/being-beethoven
31. Persimmon: reach your medium-term goals in 7
areas of your life through the power of
visualization / affirmations and small daily steps.
35. Instamaniac - find out how early you
joined Instagram
http://bit.ly/instamaniac
36. • 5-6 products a year
• The multiplication effect
• The best ideas coming from the students
37.
38. On the Demo Day we received personal video addresses from [0]:
• Vinod Khosla, founder, Sun Microsystems, Khosla Ventures
• David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, co-
founder / CTO of Basecamp, author of “Rework”
• Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos, ‘Delivering Happiness’
• Wendy Kopp, founder of 'Teach for America’
• Brian Kernighan, author of "The C Programming Language";
Unix, AWK, AMPL
• Qi Lu, Executive Vice President, Microsoft, leads the
development of Bing, Skype & Microsoft Office
• Gregory Olsen, 3rd space tourist in history; founder, Sensors
Unlimited Inc
• Frank Chen, venture capitalist, Andreessen Horowitz
• Etc.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4kqRdM3orQ
Чи Лю,вице-президент Microsoft, возглавляющий Bing, Skype & Microsoft Office.
40. In the summer 2015 at TheSummerStartupSchool.com
we created 37 applications sent to the App Store.
41.
42. Kelin - the mobile only anonymous social network for
women. 145,000 users, 115,000 ‘secrets’ in 4 months
since launch. #1 app in the KZ App Store. http://bit.ly/Kelin
43.
44.
45.
46. BulBul - the encyclopedia of Kazakh music: lyrics,
news, ‘guess the song’ game, etc.
47.
48.
49.
50. Never Drink Alone - one meeting a day with the most talented
people in your hometown.
http://www.neverdrinkaloneapp.com
51. Kairosh - Shazam for 160 songs by Kairat Nurtas.
http://bit.ly/getKairosh
53. Kinza - recipes from what you have in the fridge.
http://bit.ly/getkinza
54. LonelyKeanu - express your emotions with the relevant celebrity
reactions via WhatsApp.
http://bit.ly/getlonelykeanu
55. StartCode.it - the easiest way to learn web development (HTML,
CSS, JavaScript). Treehouse for the Russian speaking audience.
http://bit.ly/getStartCode
56. Camellia - Uber for flowers in Almaty and Astana
http://bit.ly/getCamellia
57. Dilemma - answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to interesting questions and see
the public reaction.
http://bit.ly/getdilemma
58. Syntle - the easiest way to learn programming language syntax
(Objective-C, Swift, Shell, git, Python, JavaScript) with flashcards.
http://bit.ly/getsyntle
59. Finchler - one movie recommendation a day based on the result
of your personality test.
http://bit.ly/getFinchler
61. Kitapp - buy and sell used books from your phone.
http://bit.ly/kitappkz
62. Toybastar - the best wedding photographers and MCs.
http://bit.ly/getTamada
63. Critics: But all you’re doing is building fun apps?
Us: “What the hackers do on the weekend is what
everyone else will do during the week in ten years”. -
Chris Dixon
64.
65. The stages of the tech startup: idea -> mockup -
> prototype -> program -> product -> business -
> profits.
66. Critics: “Why can’t you learn this online?”
Our reply: “Online education (Khan Academy, Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, edX, iTunes U) doesn’t
solve all the problems: 7% completion rate. Students lack self-discipline, peer pressure and
creative energy from the like-minded people around” [0].
[0] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/mooc-completion-rates-
below-7/2003710.article