The Qnum Analytics Team On Turning A Side Gig Into A Full Time Business

HackerNoon Reporter: Please tell us briefly about your background.

My background is tech and business in the enterprise software market.

What's your startup called? And in a sentence or two, what does it do?

We are Qnum Analytics and we get rid of these leaky inventory buckets.

What is the origin story?

Started off as a side gig solving this very problem with a client and later developed into an MVP and the rest is history.

What do you love about your team, and why are you the ones to solve this problem?

A diverse but well balanced team thats been together for five years and really skilled and passionate about what we do.

If you weren’t building your startup, what would you be doing?

Providing mentorship to other aspiring startup founders.

At the moment, how do you measure success? What are your core metrics?

Customer use cases that are delivering the value we promise our customers. Core metrics are sign ups, burn rate and runway.

What’s most exciting about your traction to date?

Seeing the product work and the impact on operations.

What technologies are you currently most excited about, and most worried about? And why?

AI/ML applied to old traditional industries to optimise and enhance business processes and outcomes continues to amaze.

What drew you to get published on HackerNoon? What do you like most about our platform?

Interesting audience

What advice would you give to the 21-year-old version of yourself?

Fail fast and take risks

What is something surprising you've learned this year that your contemporaries would benefit from knowing?

Never give up!