Tech AM Report

Vaheh Hatami and Mike MacCana of the Portal team join for an excellent discussion on blockchain facilitated global payments and share valuable experience on critical start-up matters such as team dynamics & communication, user testing & customer research and how to manage an effective fundraising process.

Tigran Atoyan of Haibrid, likely one of our most knowledgeable data science professionals just back from London, talks about his entrepreneurship experience, team & co-founder matters, as well as takeaways from the customer validation and pre-PMF phase of a deeptech product.

Raffi Niziblian of Deem Communications talks marketing and communication, importance of the story behind a startup, what creativity actually is, how SMM changed the world and shares insights from his domain expertise accumulated over the last two decades.

The Timeless team discuss early-stage matters like validation assumptions, risks of confirmation bias, different customer personas, their experience in doing a pivot as well as share other important takeaways from their entrepreneurial journeys.

Arthur Karapetian and Mihran Babayan discuss their recent success at Entrepreneurship World Cup, their story as a startup, Text’nPayMe’s product and share several learnings and insights on everything from market segmentation to PLG and go-to-market approach.

Ruben Osipyan of Himnark start-up and Fast Foundation, talks about workplace culture and employer values as drivers of performance and productivity, employee motivation, nuances of working in the intersection of a B2B SaaS and SMEs and shares various important insights on talent retention. He also discusses initiatives at FAST and his involvement with the entrepreneurship programs at the Foundation. (In Armenian).

Astrik Mckertichyan of manot, a computer vision company, talks entrepreneurship insights and takeaways, the benefits of being female co-founders, fundraising, team complementarity and experience, and much more.

Perch Voskerchyan talks about start-up mentoring, advisory and the transformation they foresee in the accelerator model. He also discusses the solution Optimal Path is working on, their team and offers several valuable insights from his entrepreneurship path.

Tigran Chakhalyan shares valuable insights on his experience with start-ups, team strength, customer feedback and analytics, accelerator participation and other entrepreneurship matters.

Albert Poghosyan of BuildUp discusses their program, its practical and team oriented mission for mid-level tech specialists, the tangible value add of peer-to-peer learning as well as the Bootcamp's concrete product building approach to solving problems.