Ciklum Seminar Zurich June 20, 2012 - Marcus Kuhn (connex.io)

Nearshoring as a Startup

Marcus Kuhn – Co-Founder & CEO marcus@connex.io; +41 (0)76 378 51 33

The Problem

Address books are a hassle

* based on http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/03/hiya-whitepages-address-book.html

Peoples biggest problems*:

» Duplicates (50%)

» Keeping it up-to-date (48%)

» Missing data (19%)

» Keeping it all in one place (17%)

Address books should

manage themselves.

The Solution

Connect

One address book, everywhere!

Funding

Team

Stas, Ata, Artyom & Yuri

Why Nearshoring?

Co-Founder outside CH

Costs

Always been virtual

Why Cikum?

Franco

Own Team Model

No Overhead

Timezone / Location

Finding our Team

We defined Requirements

Search and filter by Ciklum

Our Interviews

Our decision

Organizing

Chat / Video Call

Trello

Github

So what?

Excellent People

Quickly Productive

No Overhead

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Questions?