How to Run Your Startup on Notion - Slide-by-Slide Presentation

Sep 11, 2026

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Slide-by-slide presentation material for the Techstars NYC 2020 cohort explaining how founders can run and scale a startup using Notion. It introduces Notion as an all-in-one digital workspace for notes, project management, documents, and collaboration, emphasizing its “digital paper” flexibility. The deck covers use cases such as documentation, organizations and people, projects and tasks, events and meetings, website assets, proposals, and client portals, plus guidance on differentiation, fit for founders, secret sauce, when to adopt, and how to use it.

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Introduction

What is Notion

Why is Notion different

Why Notion is perfect for founders?

What is Notion's secret sauce?

When to adopt Notion?

How to use 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 forTechstars NYC 2020 cohort. It covers a few things about Notion for startups in a Notion doc—meta,I know. 伊How to Run Your Startup on Notion Edited 12 days ago # Introduction How to Run Your Startup on Notion How to Run Your Startup on.. # How to runyour startupon四Notion How to runyour startupon Notion ·my name is tem and i'm covering an introduction to a productivity/organization appcalled Notion. ·answer a specific question:why is this specific software great for founders likeyourself? ·irun optemization.com—a no-code productivity consultancy where l helps busyexecutives build organization systems and habits to free up more time and focusfor getting important画done. !Resize the Figma embed by clicking on the window and pressing z 9Navigate the page with the outline and buttons Outline 警Introduction 乡About me /Outline What is Notion aWhy is Notion different 型Why Notion is perfect for found. What is Notion's secret sauce? ③When to adopt Notion? How to use Notion? 人Thank you Twitter I New York University F Fit AI Temirlan Nugmanov 县InnoVention Society w@opemization Techstars/Future Labs/Institute B Notion ◎ Optemization ## /Outine S What is Notion? a Why is Notion different? 塑Why Notion is perfect for founders? What is Notion's secret sauce? ◎When to adopt Notion? How to use Notion? ## What is Notion Notion is the future of work All-in-one workspace for notes,projectmanagement,documents,and collaboration—the closest equivalent of digital paper. ·my tirst year: 1i 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.istarted a tech company where i learned everything else,including how to failmiserably all the time ·because that's alotialso had to constantly avoid expulsion due to overdueclasswork ·after my startup successfully failed and i found a successor at the club,i got towork at three accelerators at the same time,including Techstars ·the result of managing allthese proejcts,tasks,people and information bytes inrapidly switchingcontexts pushed me to try more software that i knew existed,sotried and mastered most tools like:△入Google Drive,四入Trello品入Asana,7 Airtable(for a good bit)and of course 7 Notion →and that became my expertise:ability increase organizational productivity withthe right set of digital tools and strategies six things to cover today 1.what's the notion about notion? 2.notion's differentiation to an ocean of other tools,which you probably tried/use 3.notion's fit to this specific demographic 4.the three things that make the company special 5.the timing to adopt the product 6.how iuse notion ·for those unfamiliar,let's start with an easy question and make sure we know whatNotion actually is. ·to me,Notion is the future of how work gets done.I'm very long/bullish on thecompany.Officially,the company describes themselves as ·[read the slide] ·Isee it as digital paper. Like an piece of paper,it starts blank.There is no hierarchy,structure.You get tocreate one. Notion can be anything That's software freedom that consumers are generally not used to,so hi,i'm here tohelp. 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 isbased. Notion will be everything luse Notion for organizing: 1.Organizations and people 2.Proiects and tasks 3.Events and meetings 4.Website assets 5.Proposals 6.Client portals And as of @Aug 4,2020 using it for presentation outlines…and more! THEPRODUCT THE PRODUCT Project Tracker Customer Relationship Manager(CRM) …三→a - ②Companies 曲Projects B he o am 20 Do r K am / s a s

FAQs

What is Notion, according to the presentation?

Notion is positioned as the future of work: an all-in-one workspace for notes, project management, documents, and collaboration, described as “digital paper.” It starts blank and lets users create the needed structure and hierarchy.

Why is Notion different from other productivity tools?

The presentation highlights Notion’s radically different approach to organization and collaboration. It frames common tools like Trello and Airtable as puzzle pieces that Notion replaces by consolidating notes, wikis, project management, and simple data management into one space.

When should founders adopt Notion and how should they use it?

The deck covers the timing to adopt Notion and provides usage guidance, including using it for documentation and writing, and for organizing people, projects and tasks, events and meetings, website assets, proposals, and client portals. It also emphasizes designing a functional space to internalize the workflow.

Sep 11, 2026

Uploaded by Dipper