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@beautifeyelabs From corporate research to star-ups: chronicles from an ongoing journey

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From corporate research to star-ups: chronicles from an ongoing journey

World-class research team Computer Vision and Machine Learning hacking

The Beginning of our Journey

Grenoble

Dublin

Dublin, Ireland, a great place to start-up  

What you need to start..

FIVE !LESSONS !Learned so far

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FIVE !LESSONS !Learned so far

What?  

When?  Where?   Who?  

How?  

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What is a startup?

What  ..as a researcher a thought that a startup is one thing…  

Start-up = Technology

What  

Technology

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Technology

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Not  really  …  

What  

Then you read and discover that..  

A start-up is an experiment  

What  

Sales

Business dev.

Team Finance

Technology

Product

What  a complex experiment involving..

What  

The Dream

What  

The Reality

What  

J Fast Inexpensive J Disruptive J

Startups as experiments are..

What  

97% BUT….

What  

97% ..fail L

What  3 Key ingredients to succeed

Military organization 1  

Brutal honesty 2  

A lot of hard work 3  

When?

When  

Alex Krizhevsky, ECCV12 Florence

New technologies disrupt the status quo..

Announcing double digit improvement on automatic large scale image classification Using deep learning

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A new trend is changing the way people communicate globally

Where?

Where  #startinireland  

Where  

It is all about the ecosystem..  

Where  Dublin early 2005  

Where  Dublin, 2010  

Where  Dublin, 2012  

Where  Incubators  

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Where  Angel investors  

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Where  Venture Capitalists  

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Where  Govt. Institutions  

Where  Events and Gigs  

Where  Events and Gigs  

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Where  Wayra.. our #bestoffice and #muchmore  

Who?

Nadja!Lead SW Developer!Tubingen University!

Luca!Founder!Ph.D., Ex - Xerox research!

Claire!Business Development!INSEE Paris!

Eoin!Computer Vision Engineer!Trinity College, Dublin!

Who  

How?

Get a little help from the

..cloud..  

Sales

Business dev.

Team Finance

Technology

Product

How  

@beautifeyelabs

www.beautifeye.co Wayra Ireland Dublin 4, Ireland Ph.: +353 85 81 64 760 [email protected]

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