How to Run Your Startup on Notion

My name is Tem and I run optemization.com

This is a slide-by-slide breakdown for a presentation that I have put together for Techstars NYC 2020 cohort.

It covers a few things about Notion for startups in a Notion doc — meta, I know.

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Presentation

Outline

👋 Introduction

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my name is tem and i'm covering an introduction to a productivity/organization app called Notion.
answer a specific question: why is this specific software great for founders like yourself?
i run optemization.com — a no-code productivity consultancy where I helps busy executives build organization systems and habits to free up more time and focus for getting important 💩done.

it starts five years ago when i enrolled to study entrepreneurship at NYU
my first year:
1. i was elected president of our 6k person class, where i learned to host events
2. i became a pm → president at a startup club / accelerator where i learned to build community and write cold emails
3. i started a tech company where i learned everything else, including how to fail miserably all the time
because that's a lot i also had to constantly avoid expulsion due to overdue classwork
after my startup successfully failed and i found a successor at the club, i got to work at three accelerators at the same time, including Techstars
the result of managing all these proejcts, tasks, people and information bytes in rapidly switching contexts pushed me to try more software that i knew existed, so tried and mastered most tools like: Google Drive , Trello Asana, Airtable (for a good bit) and of course Notion

→ and that became my expertise: ability increase organizational productivity with the right set of digital tools and strategies

six things to cover today

what's the notion about notion?
notion's differentiation to an ocean of other tools, which you probably tried / use
notion's fit to this specific demographic
the three things that make the company special
the timing to adopt the product
how i use notion

for those unfamiliar, let's start with an easy question and make sure we know what Notion actually is.
to me, Notion is the future of how work gets done. I'm very long/bullish on the company. Officially, the company describes themselves as
[read the slide]
I see it as digital paper.

Like an piece of paper, it starts blank. There is no hierarchy, structure. You get to create one.

Notion can be anything

That's software freedom that consumers are generally not used to, so hi, i'm here to help.

the simplest use case is documentation and writing.

On this slide, you see a blog post that I've written about Notion on which this talk is based.

Notion will be everything

I use Notion for organizing:

And as of August 4, 2020 using it for presentation outlines...and more!