Startup or Employee?Paiboon Panusbordee

@paiboonpanFacebook.com/paiboonpa

CTO Levelup Plus Co., Ltd.

CPE19 Kasetsart University Co-founder Levelup Studio for 7 years Co-founder Levelup Plus for 4 years CTO, Software Architect

Who am I?

Planet that have many creatures Cybermon Pokdeng (Thai casino card game) Warrior Tales Fantasy Levelup Plus is invested by

Past Works

Why Startup?

Dream!

Why Startup?

Freedom!Money!

Fame!

Why Startup?

I’m gonna be No.1!

Why Startup?

Boring Boss? Boring Parents?

Good News (Thailand)

Opportunity (Thailand)

Thailand Idol

Next Mark Zuckerberg would be me!

Real World

Startup success rate is 10%

Failure?

No free things from this world.Everything come from equivalent

exchange.

With great power comes great responsibility

Money Time, Exertion, Responsibility Experience Team Goal Passion Business Plan Leave Plan

What would I need to run a startup?

Parents Personal Savings Investor Loan Government Support Crowdfunding Startup Competition

Where does money come from?

Parents Personal Savings -> Current Salary, Outsource Investor -> Connection Loan -> Leading Rate, Asset Lending Government Support -> Full business plan+MVP Crowdfunding -> If you late, backer will curse you and

lose branding Startup Competition -> Late money given

Money left in the account divided by expense per month = Time before a startup die and you still have income to buy food for yourself

Where does money come from?

10-14 Work hours per day, 6-7 work days per week

Do not go home if you cannot fix the bugs. If server crashed, you need to fix it before

you can go to bed Girlfriend/Boyfriend Time? Family Time? Travel with friend?

Time, Exertion, Responsibility

Knowledge outside the class always have to update

When the technology changes, you need to abandon them and learn new things

Explore the world. Don’t live in your dream. Open your mind and collect veteran experience

to avoid same mistake If you take a rest, competitors will get ahead of

you! If you never take work as freelance or sales

before, don’t try to run a startup

Experience

Business Technical (Frontend/Backend) UI/UX Marketing Accounting Financial Support (Game Design) (Graphic Design) Teamwork! What’s about your prefer position that you want to

spend your whole time with?

Team (How many people are there?)

Change the world! You excite about it. The world need it. You have Domain Expert on your product What do you want the world to remember

you as?

Passion

Long-term Goal Short-term Goal MileStone Team understand If something go

wrong, pivot it

Goal

Where is your customer? ** Do customers need your product? Is it just your

own imagination?(FYI to Research: Lean Startup, Lean Startup Machine)

How do you promote your products? How to make income? How to build a server to support 1 thousand concurrent

users? How do you divide up works to the team? How many people do you need? When would your team

scale up? If you do not make enough profit, do you have a backup

plan?

แผนธุรกิจ

How many months would your startup end up in a loss consecutively and you will close it down?

When startup close, what will you do next to keep up your life?

If there’s some member want to leave in the middle way, how would you calculate share price?

Don’t think it cannot be yourself. Some day, if you have an accident, you will be forced to leave.

Leave Plan

Lots more effort than other people Winner is the one who can adapt to the change Multiple skills require not only your expert skill Support your employees and listen to them. Not just order Ready to fail whatever times it take Shouldn’t have any debts for car or house Run startup when you do not have your own family and

children is the best timing. You will be able to get up very quickly

Very short time to spare with your friends. Don’t think about your girlfriend/boyfriend time

Parent permission

Startup Summary

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Planet that have many creatures Cybermon Pokdeng (Thai casino card game) Warrior Tales Fantasy Levelup Plus is invested by

Past Works

Umbo! Twit2kill Places for sale Mass Add War Game Flash Book Kingdom Quests Pets War (Asura Farm) General Zombies Blast Run! Dapper Run! Dungeon X

Failed Project?

Won the game online category in the national contest by SIPA and got 500,000 Baht as reward

Facebook is still blue ocean at that time. We’re the first Facebook game developer in Thailand

Publisher interested in us immediately We got funding from publisher to advertise New idea, new to market. Very easy to do Big announcement in Thailand Game Show event Failed…

Case Study: Umbo

Lots of time to spend with your friends Guarantee income every months with bonus Credit money for car and house Absence quota day Stability Choosable workplace Low responsibility, just follow an order Just do your prefer position, don’t have to do multiple

positions Don’t have to think if you still be able to pay yourself

and your employees’ salary or not Automatically increasing salary every years

Employee’s advantage

Do employees really poor?

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