- Made an appointment to take an EXCITING group photos of the association “Thursday 8th March 9am in front of RU, Dress code: SUITS” (There is NO class scheduled this day!!) We are going to take photos that suits our motto “PLAYGROUND for Entrepreneurs”. Duration of photo shot 2hr + a good lunch in good ol’Jouy)
- Watched an introductory video of Skimm and a demo pitch from Valentin Lautier, one of the co-founder of Skimm And talked about the business idea of Skimm, its challenges etc.
Skimm in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRlLHhs4WK4
Demo Pitch : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy4wCvOAN2U - Found topics that we would like to ask about Valentin’s entrepreneurial journey.
- Process of founding the company; from idea generation, to finding teams and funding
How did you convince your partners? What were the challenges and how did you overcome them?
Generating profit - Market and Challenges
Why and How did you choose the market?
Differentiation of product from competitors (MyBee, PayPal, Credit & Debit Cards)
Have you launched in different countries? If so, how did you deal with international challenges? - Role as Entrepreneur
What was your role when starting up Skimm?
Your most exciting moment? And the toughest?
What would you do differently if you start-up Skimm today? - What are the next steps for Skimm, expected difficulties and how would you tackle them?
How would you reach critical level of customers and service providers (shops)?
- Process of founding the company; from idea generation, to finding teams and funding
- Walked through Patrick’s slides for HECreate Introductory presentation
- Updates on current projects
- HECGarage; in process of searching storage space within Jouy or Velizy. Hopefully will not need to change the name to HEC Stockage
- Google Event: Mr. Eloic Peyrache (Dean of Grande Ecole) showed interest in project and will reach back after contacting Google (Detailed version of plans for Google workshop is available )