University Malaysia Kelantan UMK 15th Oct 2011 Presentation Resources Needed for Venture Creation: How to Bootstrap

1. v1r5

2. Definition of Bootstrap:
1. relying entirely on one’s efforts
and resources
2. self-generating or self-
sustaining
Revisit: “Resources Needed for
Venture Creation: How to
Bootstrap”

3.  People
 Product
 Promotion – Marketing
 Money & Funding
 Passion -Personal
 Misc Work that business people hate
Depends type of venture.
◦ Internet venture
◦ Brick & Mortar venture
◦ Home based business venture

4.  Group
◦ Online
◦ Offline
 Individuals
◦ It is Who Not What
◦ List of Groups on
Your Contact List

5.  LinkedIn
 Twitter
 Facebook

6.  LinkedIn Groups
•Quickly discover the most
popular discussions in your
professional groups.
•Have an active part in
determining the top
discussions by liking and
commenting.
•Follow the most influential
people in your groups by
checking the Top Influencers
board or clicking their profile
image to see all their group
activity.
•Find interesting discussions
by seeing who liked a
discussion and how many
people commented.
Professional on Networking Individual
Basis

7.  Twitter Lists
 Twitter users can organize
others into groups, or “lists”.
When you click to view a
list, you'll see a stream of
Tweets from all the users
included in that group.
Networking on Individual Basis

8.  Twitter Groups
 Twibes
 Tweetworks
 Listorious

9.  Group
◦ Offline
 Formal – for example
 Vistage,
 BNI
 Rotary Club
 Informal
 Tweetup
 Foursquare Members
 Golf buddies

10.  Individuals
◦ It is Who Not What – the
bigger the deal the more
the important on Who
◦ List of Groups on Your
Contact List
 Eg. Guan Eng & Amirul as
Contacts

11.  Supermarket/Shopping Malls
 Yellow Pages
 Google
◦ Trends via Google Analytics
 Twitter
◦ Real-time Trending Topics
 Foursquare
◦ Geotagging of area
ID your product/services OR hone own
your product/service

12.  What products/services interest you?
 Follow instinct but must know your stamina
ID your product/services OR hone own
your product/service

13. ID your product/services OR hone own
your product/service

14. Trends via Google
Analytics
ID your product/services OR hone own
your product/service
http://www.vretoolb
ar.com/news/2006/
08/04/google-
trends-added/

15. Real-time
Trending
Topics
ID your product/services OR hone own
your product/service

16.  Geotagging
of area
ID your product/services OR hone own
your product/service

17.  Can you do business without
money? YES!
 List of funds in Malaysia

18.  http://www.smeinfo.com.my

19.  Constant Focus – be SME
◦ Google Reader – RSS Blogs
◦ Blog
◦ Comments/Ideas on LinkedIn
Groups
 Personal Branding
◦ Twitter postings with hash tags #
◦ Project Image thro blog
◦ Separate FB & other online postings

20.  Biz Plan – Offline (Get Format)
 Meetings – Skype
 Resume Builder – Jobstreet
 Documents on the Cloud
 Email on the Cloud
 Backup on the Cloud
 Hire no one – Elance.com

21.  My Profile: http://linkedin/in/zakirjaafar
 Follow my ramblings
http://twitter.com/zakirjaafar
Thank you