For this workshop, we welcome Millie Marconi, Co-Founder of Yesterday to talk about the tech challenges she has overcome and MVP monetisation strategies! Part two will be an interactive workshop to get started with your own tech product, and unlock over $15k worth of incentives. Bring your laptop!

🍕Pizza provided 🍕

**Part 1: Millie - overcoming tech challenge + MVP monetisation**

* **Defining Your MVP**: Identify core features that solve your customers' primary pain points, ensuring your MVP delivers real value.
* **Early Monetisation Strategies**: Generate revenue from your MVP using subscription models, freemium plans, and one-time purchases to sustain your business and gather insights.
* **Overcoming Technical Challenges:** Maintain momentum and validate your MVP through revenue despite technical hurdles by leveraging service-based offerings and focusing on customer needs.
* **Tracking Key Metrics**: Measure success with key metrics like user engagement, retention rates, and revenue growth to guide further development.

**Part 2: Workshop to Deploy Baseline + Activate Offers (30 min)**

* Non-technical and technical founders welcome! Bring your laptops!
* Learn about the challenges of launching tech products and how a robust tech stack can help you mitigate them.
* Set up your AWS account and deploy Baseline.
* Activate multiple startup offers and walk away ready to start building new features.
* **Startup Benefits Details:**
* USD $10,000 in AWS Credits
* Stripe processing fees waived on your first $10,000 revenue
* Free deployment of Baseline valued at $2,000

Note: startup benefits are for eligible startups. Please complete [this form](https://share.hsforms.com/1P6p_G9Q_Q-SJAESAYtLftgqm3as) to apply for the benefits.

[Millie Marconi](https://au.linkedin.com/in/millie-marconi) is the founder of Yesterday, a VC backed female founded HR tech startup focused on disrupting the hiring landscape. As a non-technical founder, Millie has generated revenue pre-launch by monetising a service-based MVP, proving that technical challenges don't impede progress or validation through consistent revenue generation.

[Thomas Nixon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-nixon-baseline/) is the Technical Co-Founder of Baseline, an Open-Source, serverless and fullstack tech framework designed to address the challenges faced by modern tech startups. With over a decade of experience in software development, Thomas has a strong background in cloud architecture, AI, and agile methodologies.

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Thomas Nixon

Sabrina Venish

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Early MVP Monetisation Strategies | Accelerate your tech startup + $15k benefits

2 Park St

In this meetup, we welcome Bojan Zivic, principal consultant at Mantel Group, as our guest speaker to talk about **lessons learnt by startups using Serverless** **technology**! We welcome non-technical and technical founders to learn about this important technology. Part two will be an interactive workshop to get started with serverless technology and unlock over $15k worth of incentives. Bring your laptop!

🍕Pizza provided 🍕

**Part 1: Bojan - lessons about Serverless**

* How focusing to much on finding a problem for a solution can cause \`Death by Infrastructure\`
* Lessons learnt by the startups and enterprise (going into the famous case of Amazon Prime moving away from Serverless)
* The right approaches with Serverless, not technologically rather purpose fit solutions for business problems.
* Serverless: what good looks like

**Part 2: Workshop to Deploy Baseline + Activate Offers (30 min)**

* Non-technical and technical founders welcome! Bring your laptops!
* Learn about the challenges of launching tech products and how a robust tech stack can help you mitigate them.
* Set up your AWS account and deploy Baseline.
* Activate multiple startup offers and walk away ready to start building new features.
* **Startup Benefits Details:**
* USD $10,000 in AWS Credits
* Stripe processing fees waived on your first $10,000 revenue
* Free deployment of Baseline valued at $2,000

Note: startup benefits are for eligible startups. Please complete [this form](https://share.hsforms.com/1P6p_G9Q_Q-SJAESAYtLftgqm3as) to apply for the benefits.

[Bojan](https://au.linkedin.com/in/bojan-zivic-65431033) is a AWS Ambassador and Serverless Community Builder that spends most of his time stuck in the world of Containers and Serverless.
As a Principal Consultant @ Mantel Group, Bojan is part of the Application Modernization practice, and here he spends his time obsessing over Infra as Code and how to bring people into the serverless and microservices world.

[Thomas Nixon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-nixon-baseline/) is the Technical Co-Founder of Baseline, an Open-Source, serverless and fullstack tech framework designed to address the challenges faced by modern tech startups. With over a decade of experience in software development, Thomas has a strong background in cloud architecture, AI, and agile methodologies.

Ananda Pandey

Serverless: lessons for startups | Accelerate your tech startup

Mantel Group Office

**Fast forward your initial product development by 6 months, get VC ready, and unlock $15k worth of incentives!**

Agenda and speakers to be confirmed closer to the date.

**Startup Benefits Details:**

* USD $10,000 in AWS Credits
* Stripe processing fees waived on your first $10,000 revenue
* Free deployment of Baseline valued at $2,000

Note: startup benefits are for eligible startups. Please complete [this form](https://share.hsforms.com/1P6p_G9Q_Q-SJAESAYtLftgqm3as) to confirm eligibility.

Accelerate Your Tech Startup + $15k in Benefits! <> Hosted at AWS Melbourne ☁️

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