October 2016
- Bought domain name
- Run through some ideas on what to do
November 2016
- preparing the final days to resignation from full time job
- develop and launch first website draft
- launch first email marketing campaigns
December 2016
- develop some high level business milestones
- engaging old customers and new ones
- harvesting email contacts
January 2017
- began detailed HR Tech App prototyping
- continue engaging and closing on deals with new customers
- made HR Tech App the main startup front with prototyping business as supporting
February 2017
- continue HR Tech App development
- started engaging NUS, Ngee Ann Poly, Temasek Poly incubators for advice and support
- started preparing business proposal for ACE Startup funding
March 2017
- launched first MVP of HireData – A Psycholinguistic Application for recruitment
- continue engagement with public agencies incubators and started engagement with private incubators
- started Meetup.com group for prototyping business
April 2017
- engaged potential HR customers to participate in program
- collated feedback from various engagement and evolved HireData to ProgramH – A platform to match students and their potential employers.
- refined, submitted business proposals to funding agencies
May 2017
- Started 3-months short term contract job while pending for funding results
June 2017
- Startup funding result received: rejected mainly due to weakness in business model, product purpose.
July 2017
- Withdrawal plans for startup
- Started EDX online courses on Data Science and Big Data Systems
Aug 2017
- Preparation work to close curtain on startup
- Search for full-time job to continue life-as-usual
September 2017
- Repurpose meetup group
- Completed EDX online course on Big Data System
- Preparation work to return to full-time job
