Description Raphael Ouzan, founder & CTO of BillGuard, the first-ever antivirus for bills will present and lead a discussion on hiring and building the "killer" team.
We've all been there - the big idea is here and we can't wait for the entire world to use the product we have drawn many times in our mind. At this exact moment and for the rest of the life of the company, begins the most important and perhaps the most difficult task - hiring and building the team that will make the dream come true.
How can a small group of people, break into a market, build a product that people will want, establish a sustainable business and overcome the ups and down, the pivots, the competition and the endless challenges within a budget that is often less that the salary of high exec at Google or Microsoft? The answer is the team.
From day one through the end, it's all about the team.
However, as we can see this in our relationships and just by looking at the world, dealing with people is difficult, risky and uncertain. But there's no choice here and in fact, the only thing we can't afford to fail at is the early-stage team.
That's why we will dive into how to:
Challenge #1 - find these one of a kind hacker/entrepreneur/team-player all-in-one people and hire them.
Challenge #2 - forge the attitude of a "killer" team, an unstoppable and focused unit that will solve the impossible as it comes up and build whatever has to be built, day after day.
About the speaker:
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Raphael is the founder and CTO of BillGuard, the personal finance security company named "2011 Big-Data Startup of the Year" by O'Reilly Media, "2011 Top Startup of the Year Runner-up" by TechCrunch, and “Best of Show” at Finovate.
Raphael started creating software professionally since he was 13. He was awarded the title of Israel's Top Young Scientist in 2006 by the President of the State and won the 2nd place at the Intel World Science contest. Raphael then established and managed "super hacker" teams as an officer in Israel's elite military intelligence unit. While there, Raphael architected and built massively scalable and secure intelligence data systems that have become standards and earned him the unit's highest honor as well as the President's Award for outstanding achievements. In an effort to enable others like him to join Israel as a "Startup Nation", Raphael founded Mission Intelligence, the first program to gather young talented students from all over the world to an elite High Tech fellowship program in Israel. Raphael is also a regular official speaker for Israel in Europe and in the US.
Tuesday 6/12
Hub Tel Aviv, Menachem Begin 55 7th floor
19:30 - get together
20:00 - start lecture
21:30 - beer and networking
30 NIS including soft drinks and refreshments
Free for Hub members |