Breaking Barriers

An Introduction to Start ups in Civil Engineering

Background

 

Mobile 

Observation vs Interpretation

What do you see?

What can you make out of this?

VS

Job sites may be holding onto unneeded materials for the sake of convenience.

Observation: 

Interpretation:

Here is a pile of unused materials. 

Observation vs Interpretation

Idea vs Oppurtunity

Suppose you came up with a

                    brilliant idea IDEA. 

Is it an entrepreneurial/profitable opportunity?

Entrepreneurial Oppurtunity

Many ideas fail, not because the entrepreneurs did not work hard; but because: 

there was no real

oppurtunity

to begin with. 

Prediction vs Creaction Logic

"Lets make a model!" 

"No time, lets just do!" 

"How about we take small actions, analyze, and repeat." 

ET&A

Know Yourself

"Maximize your strengths, massage your weaknesses."

Write down a list of your strengths and weaknesses on a piece of paper. 

Solution: Find people who have your weaknesses as their strengths.

Assembling the Team

"I am people poacher and am always looking for new talent."

-Babson B.E.T.A. Challenge Finalist

 Elysium Energy- Raised 1 Million in Funding

The 80/20 Rule

"Find the 20% of your idea that you think will get 80% of the benefits."

"If it doesn't work, find another 20% and keep going until you move on to the next idea."

Raised 3.2 Million in Funding

-Gary Jiang, indico CMO

The Business Model

How are you going create, deliver, and capture value?

Where's the money?

Your Awesome

Tech Start-up 

Ad Revenue

Subscriptions

Microtransactions

Commission

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The Rocket Pitch

- Deliver the business idea

- 3 Slides & 3 Minutes

- Tell a story

The Oppurtunity

The Market

The Model

The Call to Action

Where's The Money At?

Babson B.E.T.A Challenge - $20,000

Rough Draft VC - $25,000 
 

What's better than starting you own business?

Starting your own business with other people's money.

Opportunities in C.E.

Academics

Personal Interest

Professional Experience

Opportunity

Academics

Analysis

Design

Software

Project Managment

Civil Applications

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Personal Interest

Professional Experience

Field

Design

Consulting

Research

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What I See

Construction Documentation

Optimization

Communication

More

Technological Adoption

What We Saw

Academics

Personal Interest

Professional Experience

Buildsourced

 

The Yard & Directory

The Yard

Directory

For Field Engineers

"Find me a Top Drill Rigg!!!"

Scary New Boss

Where do even you look??

No idea??

Keep guessing...

Try it Out

buildsourced.com

Contact Us

 

Questions?

zbedrosian@buildsourced.com

jcueva@buildsourced.com

Concerns?

Comments?

Send us an email!

zachary bedrosian

 

i am 100% armenian and my middle name is incredibly hard to pronounce: hratch. go for it.

 

Breaking Barreris

By Zachary Bedrosian

Breaking Barreris

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