Bluedot UWS-short-talk
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The document discusses current industry trends, focusing on Bluedot Innovation's disruptive location services technology that addresses issues of precision, battery usage, and privacy in mobile applications. It highlights the importance of an agile mentality over experience in hiring and mentions popular technology stacks for rapid development. Additionally, it provides insights into funding opportunities for start-ups in Australia and the value of a computer science degree in this context.
Bluedot UWS-short-talk
- 1. Current Industry trends and the job market, a start-up perspective Balendran | CTO, Bluedot Innovation balendran@bluedot.com.au
- 2. A little bit about myself After establishing two start-ups with mixed results, I have worked for various organizations in different capacities. After 8 years, I again decided last year to quit it all and get back into start-ups. I am the CTO of Bluedot Innovation. Point of sale and Easy track Softech - A market place for computer hardware. Connecting buyers and sellers. A gum tree equivalent for everything computers.
- 3. Disruptions Some of the recent disruptive start-ups Bluedot Innovation’s location services SDK is disrupting multiple industries, including mobile commerce, advertising and vehicle related payments such as for toll roads Uber – A taxi app, disrupting the traditional taxi industry. Connecting passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire and ridesharing service AirBnb – A web site for accommodation sharing – Disrupting the traditional real estate and Holiday and recreation industry
- 4. The problems we’ve solved at Bluedot Until now, businesses have typically not used high precision location services in their applications… Precise location services traditionally consume very high levels of battery life on mobile devices Location-based payments require costly new hardware or infrastructure to complete transactions Businesses and their customers are concerned about the risk to privacy and personal information
- 5. The solution A new generation of location-aware applications powered by Bluedot technology Products and services delivered to the customer’s precise location Applications running continuously in the background with minimal battery drain The precision needed for location-based payments No need for additional hardware making it globally scalable at very low cost Privacy-friendly business and technology by design
- 6. Our product The Bluedot Point SDK The software development kit (or SDK) is a package of our proprietary software that can be licensed by clients and integrated into their new or existing applications. Their applications would then be able to leverage Bluedot’s powerful location services capability to add value to their business. Available on Android and iOS Designed for enterprise level use Globally scalable at very low cost We enable other businesses to build applications that couldn’t exist until now
- 7. Interesting areas still not exploited There is a lot of movement in these areas with a lot of potential 3D Printing Bit Coins Wearables and Internet of Things
- 8. What is the future for you? Don’t worry too much about off shoring and job cuts in the IT industry There is still a greater need for skilled people locally Painful lessons have been learnt by running projects off shore – It is not for everyone Take the normal route and work for an established organization or take the start-up route to achieve success reasonably quicker
- 9. What do we look for in new hires? Attitude and agile approach over experience We look for people with the right attitude and an agile mentality Familiarity with Open source everything Think outside the box, be flexible and posses willingness to get out of their comfort zone Get it done somehow approach does not cut it
- 10. Popular Technology Stacks Open source techs which assist rapid development are popular Mongo DB, Couch DB, Cassandra, Dynamo DB and many more… Node.js, Ember.js, Angular JS, Ruby on Rails, PHP and JQuery of course All flavors of Linux and Cloud
- 11. A typical SCRUM
- 12. Tips and Tools What tools and technologies can help me get started Platform to practice your pitch Co-working spaces Meet-ups and other fund raising events Government assistance I will email you a list of links through Yun as soon as possible, if you stay tuned
- 13. Where do I get money from to develop my idea.? There is money to be raised in Australia. A little glimpse 2013-2014 Total investments Region $$$ Billion Number of Deals North America 96.233 11717 Europe 24.931 1945 Asia 21.366 1522 Australia 1.393 146 Africa 1.5 92 Geographical Deals (Includes VC Firms, Corporate VC, Private Equity, Angels & Other) - Figures are close Indicators only
- 14. Computer Science Degree from UWS Has my Computer Science degree been useful.? Absolutely. Both the theories and practical aspects Analysis and Design principles Data modelling Coding and Testing as well as the final year projects helped immensely in the early days Information Security and Systems programming… of course on a daily basis
- 15. This is how we work. Everyone has total freedom on ideas and the implementation with plenty of fun along the way
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- 17. How to contact us Emil Davitan Co-Founder, Executive Director +61 4 21 641 409 or emil@bluedot.com.au Filip Eldic Co-Founder, Executive Director +61 4 0 377 867 or filip@bluedot.com.au