October Girl Geek Dinner recap: Brana Malobabic-Giancristofaro from Mon Roi

Our October Montreal Girl Geek Dinner was held at Capriccio Restaurant in Old Montreal where we were graciously hosted by Stephen Walsh and Chef Rich Tajiouti.

This evening featured an in-depth presentation by Brana Malobabic-Giancristofaro who covered all the bases of how to create a start up and in particular, how her company, Mon Roi came to be. It was a passionate, organized and very well-organized presentation which referenced many top business thinkers, philosophers and psychologists.

First off, Brana showed the group a video spoke to the global interest that there is for this game and how Mon Roi helps to deliver a powerful solution for managing the data behind chess.

Brana provided us with the history of Mon Roi and detailed her idea on how to transition the cumbersome paper-based system for tracking chess moves to that of using a PDA to do so and to make this information electronic. She developed a secure prototype of a PDA and was told by many “Good Luck” as she had to gain the approval of the World Chess Federation as well as 10 committees. Brana took their response of “No” to be “Not yet” and continued to persist.  Demonstrating a strong analogy between business and chess, Brana spoke of the strategy behind asking why you want something and then creating the tactical moves to achieve your goal.

Brana provided our group with 15 tips for entrepreneurs and in short a few noteworthy ones include:
- Find meaning
- Believe and act
- Dare - Get rid of your fears
- Be adaptable
- Build trust
- Network
- Trust your intuition
- Keep it simple
- Embrace your values

For more information about MonRoi™ Inc, please visit http://monroi.com/

Here are the slides from Brana's presentation if you're interested in reading more. There

are many valuable links in this presentation and she recommends many great books to check out.

GGD Start Up Business Strategies

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