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.

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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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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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But What Are Your Issues?

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