g days uganda 2013 - developers wed business: bridging the gap
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An analogy between business and marriage; appreciating how developers should approach the establishment of business and start-ups.TRANSCRIPT
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GDays Uganda 2013
Developerswed
Business
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FREE MARRIAGE COUNSELLING FREE MARRIAGE COUNSELLING
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Make Love, Not War• Entrepreneurship = Love Story
• Good Business = Strong Family
• Partners = Partners
• Wedding = Registration
• Products = Offspring
• Business Operations = Marriage
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Developers
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Developers• Young, flighty, excitable and excited
• Have just started using their tools
• Have just developed skills
• Eager to put them to use
• “Puppy” love; easily infatuated, susceptible to silly crushes
• Easy-going and rewarding
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Business
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Another Successful Ugandan Startup
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Developer
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2013
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Business• Mostly grounded
• Not easily excited unless results are on the horizon
• Focussed on tangible goals & objectives
• Planning all the time & every day
• Keeps evolving
• Serious almost till death
• Difficult yet rewarding
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The Romance• Get to know each other
• Spend quality time
• Pick up on likes & dislikes
• Build Trust, Honour, Respect
• Partners, Friends, Neighbours, Maids & Gardeners
• Invest & be Nice, even Loving
• Children out of wedlock = accepted easily in Business
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The Courtship
• Talk a lot
• Crack jokes
• Disclose as much as possible
• Be impressive but stay real
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The Wedding
• Plan it well - complete with a budget
• Go to a well-recognised Church and Clergy
• Get Counselling
• The Case of the Ex
• Celebrate it so you forever take it seriously
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The Marriage• NOW, it begins
• Going home every day to be together
• Building the business
• Stepping out together
• Networking & entertaining
• Getting children
• Living life
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To A Ripe Old Age
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Children• Take time to conceive
• Childbirth isn’t ever easy
• Sleepless nights through infancy
• Raising them is very involving
• They eventually become costly
• Sometimes they are rogues
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