EntrepreneurshipA kind of internship

Alexandre StrzelewiczEpitech 2014

Final studies internship

Summary

1. Context2. Thinking, analyzing and prototyping3. Making the business real4. Now and the future

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Alexandre StrzelewiczEpitech 2014

Final studies internship

Context - Wiredcraft & PM2

● Student exchange in Shanghai● Worked for Wiredcraft

○ Process management○ Bus system○ Wide range of technologies and concepts

● Developed PM2

Ronan BerderFounder

Quentin BerderCEO

Vincent VialletCo-Founder

Context - PM2 ?

● PM2 is an application process manager● Open Source software

○ Published on GitHub● Publish an article on YC news

○ 70k+ visits in 3 hours

Something began

Context - Evolution to now - PM2

● Downloaded more than 220.000 times○ International

● Used by big companies● Popular among Node.JS users● Popular on GitHub (5300+ stars)

http://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=pm2

Context - Opportunities around PM2

● PM2 has traction● How to make a viable business around PM2

Asking to the community!=

Putting a survey on the PM2 documentation

Exploring an opportunity

& the liberty of an internshipThe final Epitech studies internship began

Prototyping in another context

-> Flight ticket to Thailand-> Living on savings and Bitcoins

Crazy, but this is a portable workstation

Exotic place for Exotic creativity

Thinking & Working

● Developing it with feedback○ Creating the first user interface○ Building the first interaction between PM2 and (the

future) Keymetrics

● Seeing PM2 downloads growing every day

● Drafting a first business plan○ Marketing strategies○ Enhancing the survey○ Competitors

Worked at PAPER + TOAST co working space in Kuala Lumpur for one month

Getting more inspirations

And illusions

Reading a mind blowing book

And making it Real. Coming back to Paris

With a prototype and a business plan at hand.

Continuing the prototype in Paris

Working at a Bt Coworking Paris

Finding a business associateJeremy Boissinot

Keymetrics co-founderCOO

Smart & skillset complementary person

Teasing about the company

Node.JS Paris meetup - PM2 loves Keymetrics @Cent Quatre

Creating the 12metrics SAS company

Stable and serious structure to attract investors

Finding our first office and mentors

Yann GozlanFounder at Creative Valley

Arnaud-Guilhem LE RIBAULTMentor

Guillaume BoiretMentor & Facilitator

Getting more people involved

Pierre EntremontAdvisor

HECe-founder

Konrad GriegerMcKinsey associateBusiness planning

Luisa HerandezMarket InternSciences PO

Joni ShkurtiEpitech/42

Talented developer

Raising funds

Digital Business News @42

Solvik BlumMichel SassanoJeremie Berrebi

Investing, with confidence

Office furnitures

Showcasing the product

Visit of Michel Sapin, french minister of finance @creative valley

Oh, yes, the product

Doing conferences

Digital Business News @42

Building a bigger team2 R&D students

1 designer1 business developer

freelances and advisors

Miromesnil office with Keymetrics team

Getting help from french initiatives

Digital Business News @42

Betting. Bigger.

Now.

Being accepted to a famous acceleratorAccelerator at New York

7 conf callsStart in January 2015

We are going to NYC the 28th december 2014

The accelerator program will begin the 20th january 2015

We train a team for the R&D lab in Paris

Our second company in Delaware is being built

In 4 days we got 140 users registered with 90% linking retention rate

PM2 download between 1.000 to 2.000 per day

We plan to transform 1% of this download to clients

Big data is used to make Keymetrics unique

A logo is being redesigned

The product will be launched in January 2015 with Node 0.12 being released

Facts

Story to be continued...

Thanks for your attention

Alexandre StrzelewiczFinal studies internship report

Twitter: @strzel_aMail: strzelewicz.alexandre@gmail.comLinkedIN: http://fr.linkedin.com/in/alexandrestrzelewiczGithub: https://github.com/Unitech

Keymetrics website: https://keymetrics.io/PM2 Open Source software: https://github.com/Unitech/pm2

PM2 Download graphs: http://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=pm2Access to application: contact@keymetrics.io