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Nefin John

NewYork

Help organization build transformational capabilities like data democratization (Web API, analytics, self-service BI), cloud enablement (azure), and digital workforce (RPA) using waterfall/phase-gate, iterative and scalable agile methodologies. I have been working on building AI/ML, cognitive services, chatbots and GPT (ChatGPT) base chatbot solutions for last couple years.

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Idea Brainstorming, Lean Start-Up

Can help you in Idea brainstorming session, war rooms, SWOT, mind mapping sessions and shape the product / service, market segment

How to Convert Data to Wisdom Using Analytics and Big Data Solutions

- Build MVP for data products
- Buit Data virtualization and Data as a service
- The right Data tools and technologies for your business
- Business Intelligence , Data Analysis and visualization

Digital Transformation Using Robotic Process Automation ( RPA )

- How to build an RPA Team for your organization
- How can you reduce 40% operational cost by automation
- Setting up a bot governance model
- Tool selection and operational model

MVP, Product Road-Map, Technology Landscape and Architecture

- 17 Years of Internet/Intranet product development and project execution for Fortune 500 clients.
- End to End solution architecture and technology selection
- Agile / Lean Production and Software development methodology
- Advise on Team building, Outsourcing, Support activities

I Can Help You Build Enterprise Solution Using OpenAI GPT Technologies

How to build an enterprise solution using generative ai solution like GPT , Open CHatGPT, LLMs, Cognetive services and OCR or Custom Models while addressing, scalability, security, data privacy and governance

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Answers

Nefin John answered

How can I simultaneously attract users and experts to a marketplace of expert advice?

Marketplace are the most difficult model to build. It is like building 2 businesses. One that is a service provider and the other that is a demand generator.

Essentially you are selling two products to two distinct sets of consumers and being the market maker. Make your Business stories that their needs.

People who provide solution in clarity don't do it for $. No on does 9-5 clarity calls for living (unlike Uber). When an expert has this feeling to share his knowledge to a needy person, clarity provides a way to do it.... So you need to identity where the appetite lies and how to sell it..

Even if you have lot of leads at both sides, it needs a lot of try and error to reach the right equation where to have an optimal supply-demand ratio.

Feel free to talk.
If you don't have the seed users/consumers for both sides, you have start building it and gradually in a controlled manner start introducing them to both sides of the business until you perfect the right mix..

like Flour and Water - when it comes to bread making... :-)
Happy to read if you want to share what your business is about. May be we can do a 3 mins brainstorm after that..

My strengths are
- How can you use technology to measure the KPI
- Design systems and processes in place to achieve this goal.

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Lean startup

Marketplaces

Advice

Nefin John answered

How can I prep my company to transition to Microsoft Azure?

It is a very vague question..like "What clothing suits me ?"
Well.. I can try to answer.

Question - Why do you want to move to cloud. Have you already decided it is Azure (not the competitors like AWS or Google Cloud, which is totally OK. I am a Azure fan. Just wanted to know)

Businesses (sometime business units / specifica application) moves completely/partially to cloud for 2 reasons
- Convert capital expenditure to operation expenditure
- Build solutions or part of solutions that are scalable, available and reliable without breaking the bank.

How to Prep
- Answer varies based on if you are a IT Boutique shop, Enterprise IT solution provider or a Non-IT business with IT teams.

If you can be little more specific, may be we can chat and find a way through it...

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Microsoft SQL Server

Nefin John answered

What is cross linking in seo?

Advertising "www.buyessays.us" ?
Please use google for "What is ..." kind of question.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Website Development

Cross-platform Development

Nefin John answered

How to implement a meritocracy using analytics?

Balance score cards are a good way to create goals for the organizations and translate in into tangible ASKs .

If the purpose is to increase the bottom lines by 5% , you can break it down to
- Customer success Team - increase retention by 7%
- Technology team - reduce operation cost bt 10%

The percentage can be broken down into specific measurable tasks and be passed on the manager to reportee to the last man on the line.

Meritocracy should then be based on target % completion

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Data Science

Organizational Structure

Nefin John answered

Is it OK not to have CTO co-founder?

If your product or service considers technology as a competitive advantage compared to other marketplaces , yes it is better to have a CTO who can leverage technology to build capabilities. E.g if you are buyer-seller matching is based on machine learning backed algorithms, you need to retain the tech guy. Does not mean he/she has to be a CTO. You could use equity power too.

If you business is just another market place and the your execution power is the differentiation, then you could live with a agency/freelance company

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Investments

Founder

Team Building

Nefin John answered

How can I manage both the wholesale business and the webshop?

Great, I recently worked with a non profit who sells Pashmina shawls from kashmir on ebay and also to European suppliers (wholesale). Luckily they were using magento kind of platform that offers multiple customer account types (for wholesalers and retailers).

This is an integration question. How do you integrate your ebay selling event to your inventory (inhouse / cloud) systems.

Option 1 - Hire a freelance and build a hook using EBAY api - http://developer.ebay.com/devzone/guides/ebayfeatures/Notifications/Notif-ItemSold.html
OR 'Out of stock API
http://developer.ebay.com/devzone/guides/ebayfeatures/Development/Listings-UseOutOfStock.html

Option 2 - Wait for Zapier web hooks. It is in their wish list.
Option 3 - Some scraping hacks :-) Not the best way but definitely a TACTICAL way to see if th product is in stock on not...

Option 1 is the neatest one and scalable.
Are you using a online/saas product for your wholesale business.. Just curious ...

If you need any help in implementations/online-presence strategies..let me know. Happy to speak !!

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Operations Management

Wholesale

Online Sales

Nefin John answered

Do you run lean analytics on your business? Any great experience or trouble to share? If not yet, why?

Did you try http://leananalyticsbook.com/ ?

Lean analytics is pretty much a tailored, evolving, improving and living artifact .
It needs to be tailored as per your business needs, priorities, stage in business etc..

E.g A validation stage startup and a growth stage needs completely different analytics and metrics. Two startups in same industry and same business may need separate analytics if the funding methods are different .. bootstrap vs angel..

See... so if you can be a little more specific, I can be a little more specific... :-)
Good luck ,,,

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Lean Analytics

Web Analytics

Lean startup

Nefin John answered

What is the best place to find freelance designers?

I have hired multiple times from Fiverr, Freelancer and Guru.

NOTHING CAN GUARANTEE A GOOD RESOURCE ! You have to vett couple resources and find the right person who
- Can understand your thought process
- Can communicate with you easily
- Have done similar work before
- Have some reviews against him..

What I generally do
- I give a small gig to see how much we good is the communication and understanding
- Ask questions to the reviewers (both positive an negative) to share some more insight into the engagement
- Create milestones and check rough cuts frequently in the process of development
- Creative writing and design works is very different. You need a person whom you can connect with..

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Graphic Design

Illustration

freelancing

Nefin John answered

Is our financing app idea viable?

Hi,

So ou are building a loan marketplace and instead of being the middle man, be a platform provider.
2 Issues
1) It is a 2 sided market place which are extremenly tought to build
2) This is a Red Ocean with tons of competition and dozens of playes already in.

You should be doing this if you have one of these
1) You have tons of money that gives you a long runway
2) There is an innovative angle to it.. E.g Peer 2 Peer or Micro crowd financing were a novel idea some time back.

I did a random search and there are tons of services that are walking zombies that are in loan for students, house, boats (niches like that) and also based on crowd and p2p.

Having said that, I do not your big idea and vision in detail, So there could be something really unique AND VALUABLE that you are planning to offer..
Happy to talk and idea storm.,.

if you are not in a position to pay, I am more than happy to do a 30 min free call.. Let me know...

Or message me if you have specific question.

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Financing

Mobile applications

Product Development

Nefin John answered

I need to set up a membership site for recipes but am hoping to do it with existing plugins in Wordpress, using a little customizing. Suggestions?

Hi,

Membership site is a great idea.. I hear about it a lot at the Mixergy Interview. So many signle founders who are bootstarpped started with Membership.,.. I have listened to atleast a dozen of them..

Now the fun part --
Most of them who started with wordpress were not happy. It is a good way to test the idea..But the moment you gain traction you will have to get on to a membership SaaS or tweak wordpess a lot to make it one..

Even if you decide to go with wordpress version check if you have the following features. Wishlist is a wordpress plugin I am aware of..http://member.wishlistproducts.com/ (disclaimer - i have never done but heard a dozen founder speak)

Membership Levels - Create “Silver”, “Gold”, “Platinum etc
Integrates With Your WordPress Site or blog
Flexible Membership - Trial , Paid etc
Member Management - like registration, activate, upgrade
Payment gateway integration
Content Protection

There are non wordpress too ... One of them is http://www.subhub.com/features/ ..

If you already have a email list, influencers, would-be moderators etc, I would say start with a niche tool rather than tweaking wordpress.

Hey if are looking for any idea storming related to growth, content stratgey, marketing ..feel free to chat.. Don't worry about the phone fee.. I can send you a free call pass ..happy to talk 30 mins.

Also, do take a look what other membership sites for recipes are doing , the pain points etc..

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WordPress Development

WordPress

Business Development

Nefin John answered

Is a Software Services startup still a good idea?

Trust me ..It is a blood bath...
Sites like freelancer have already capitalized the labor arbitrage business model..

I joined 2 groups but lacked motivation when it

The only way it would work is
1) Get higher in value chain - Management consulting , roadmaps etc. The labor arbitrage still works there ..

2) Cutting edge and non-commodity services like IoT, Cloud, Hardware

3) Niche technology like NLP (natural language processing), Machine Learning, Computer Vision etc..

Please don't start another website development company using PHP , net .. The world do not need one more..

You still want to start, better have a behance portfolio that is killer quality .. QUALITY IS NEVER CHEAP !!!

Need help in exploring option, feel free to place a call.. and if can'tr afford $, let me know.. will arrange a 30 free call..

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Start-ups

Pitching Ideas

Idea Generation

Reviews

Nefin was very helpful, I had an ambiguous agenda and he did a great job giving me information that I could work with. Would definitely reach out again for needs or questions related to enterprise analytics. Thank you!

Ashley Odom Source: Clarity

Nefin was very knowledgeable about the topic I was interested in (RPA). He gave very straightforward answers and good advice regarding a new idea I was exploring in the space. I'll definitely keep in touch with him.

Razvan Dinu Source: Clarity

This was my second call with Nefin, I'm actually making some good progress with Nefin's advices. He has good expertise in almost all areas in a Startup business setups. I would be happy to take his advice going forward, it really helps.

Ravi R Source: Clarity

Nefin, is should a knowledgeable and helpful person and I learnt a lot from him. Will definitely speak again to him. Thanks

Brian Port Source: Clarity

I'm grateful for your time

AB SAM Source: Clarity

Thanks to Nefin , Few hours ago i had conversation with him for over 30 minutes, it was very useful for me. He directed me to the right start path to began my journey , he explained how business works in IT area, he has strong knowledge on how sales actually works in IT firms. My question was "Opportunities in IT services" area, and now i have got information which i was missing. I think now i am very clear how to proceed further with the advise i have got from Nefin.

Ravi R Source: Clarity

The inputs shared by Nefin were really amazing and helpful.He has great insights and ideas not just on the technology side but on business side too. Would soon connect with him again.

Mahesh Nair Source: Clarity

Member since August 2014