Refresh Colombo Revival Meetup

Finding the Initial Team - Fathhi Mohomed (Pickme)

How finding the initial team is important to a fledging startup and how Pickme motivated people to join them and how they overcame the challenges when they were expanding.

Fathhi is a serial entrepreneur. Pickme is the latest venture he's working on. He's also the CEO of Marvel Commerce and before that he was the CEO of Cheerurteam.com and the CEO of Evoloop. While at Cheerurteam, the company won the e-Swabhimani award in November 2010 for Country's best e-Content Application - eNews category.

Fathhi on Linkedin (https://lk.linkedin.com/in/fathhimohamed)

Trends in Global eCommerce, and what we can learn from it. What are the opportunities? - Shakya Pathmalal (Takas)

A talk on global trends, and what it means to Sri Lanka to both the consumer as well as the industry. Shakya will also speak on his experience in start up culture, raising capital and execution.

Shakya Pathmalal is the Takas Mudalali. He started Takas as an underdog in the Sri Lankan eCommerce space and now Takas is one of the largest eCommerce companies in Sri Lanka. He dabbled his hand in various industries before Takas and he is one of the best Sri Lankan examples of a non-techie making great inroads in technology.

Shakya on Twitter (https://twitter.com/pathmalal) | Shakya on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-k-shakya-pathmalal-9546ab9)

Panel Discussion on Sri Lankan Startup Scene in General

Moderated by Indi Samarajiva (https://www.linkedin.com/in/indi-samarajiva-66b60b2) (Yamu.lk (http://www.yamu.lk/))

• Arunoda Susuripala (https://lk.linkedin.com/in/arunoda) - Kadira.io (https://kadira.io/)

• Chandika Jayasundara (https://lk.linkedin.com/in/chandika) - Creately (http://creately.com/) / Cinergix (http://cinergix.com)

• Fathhi Mohamed (https://lk.linkedin.com/in/fathhimohamed) - Pickme.lk (http://pickme.lk/)

• Shakya Pathmalal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-k-shakya-pathmalal-9546ab9) - Takas.lk (http://takas.lk/)