"The life of any startup can be divided into two parts – before product/market fit and after product/market fit."

Marc Andreessen

As part of a 3-part series by VietStartup group in London, this opening event will focus on the inception of your startup idea, developping a Minimum Viable Product and bringing it to the market to get initial traction. Innovation and opportunities start when a great product finds its market: let's explore how together!

Guests Speakers:

To explore this question, we are excited to have great speakers with us, who will come and share their experience:

Tom

Tom Haleminh

Tom grew up in Prague, Czech Repbulic. He founded his first company at 14 - e commerce business selling drones. After finishing high school at 19, Tom joined McKinsey&Co. He then went to study Engineering at Warwick, and dropped out after one year to found Sportmate with the aim of making sports easy and accessible for everyone

Huy Nguyen Trieu

Huy is a Managing Director at Citi and former CEO of a tech company with offices in Paris and New York. Recognised as one of the "10 Influencers in London Fintech you need to know" by BoardStudios, he writes disruptivefinance.co.uk . He is also part of the Fintech Advisory Group of the World Economic Forum, of Fintech HK, and the Fintech Resident Expert at Oxford University.

Hien Vo

Hien is currently a Senior Executive at Ernst & Young London, specialising in advising Private Equity funds to invest in companies in UK and Europe. He is the co-founder of VietPro, the largest association for young Vietnamese professionals in the UK. He is also the chairman of WorldclassCV, a social enterprise that aims at helping the next Vietnamese generation to achieve their dream career and realise their full potential.

Son Pham

Son "Sean" Pham

Son is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Esplorio esplor.io, the simplest way to record and share travels. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Oxford University, worked as a full-time backend software engineer at Ocado Technology until 2015 when he quit his job to work full-time on Esplorio

What will the event be like? Will there be drinks and food?

- The talks will be followed by a Q&A session

- Everyone is then invited to connect over a casual networking

- This is an open, informal and friendly meetup.

- Guests of all backgrounds are welcome.

- Drinks and nibbles will be offered.

London VietStartup Meetup #1: How to find your product-market fit?