2. Are you looking to build a great company?
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3. What kind of company?
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4. Where do you want to go?
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5. What is your dream?
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6. What are you willing to give up to achieve your dream?
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7. Do you have a team?
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8. What is more important to make your company successful?
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9. Is your idea good for a VC?
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10. Publishing a Blog
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What is NOT interesting for a VC
11. Fancy Hands - Personal Assistants in the Cloud
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What is NOT interesting for a VC
12. 8 Startup Lessons from Constant Contact
With more than 350,000 customers, Constant Contact is apublicly
traded company (Nasdaq:CTCT)
- If an investor tells you that you cant build a real business on
$20/month, direct them to Constant Contact
13. SAAS (Software as a Service) startups need to focus on
getting on past what Gail calls the slow ramp of death 14. The
trick is to give experiments enough time to prove themselves. 15.
Get a CEO peer group to bounce ideas off of as soon as possible 16.
If your product is strong enough, people do not need to be sold.
17. There are no silver bullets, just many A-ha moments. 18. A
startup CEOs only important job is what Gail calls searching for
the model 19. Raising money from institutional investors is all
about working the entire partnership, not just your single
partner.12
20. JackBe
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21. The traditional VC world
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22. http://www.mercurynews.com/business
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2Q 2010
229 Deals
$ 2,826,005,100 Dollars
23. Investment Flow
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Founder
Angel
Venture
Series C
Series A
Series B
FFF
Seed
Prototype
Market
Validation
Team
Build out
Customer
Shipments
Expansion
24. What will a VC ask you?
Great management team
A product with a big and profitable market
Local Company
5X or 10X exit
Clear exit strategy
M&A
IPO
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25. Build wealth not just survive
26. 27. The new VC world: the lean startup
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28. Customer Development Cycle
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29. Customer Discovery
Existing Market
Re-segmented Market
Low Cost
Niche Market
New Market
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30. The Future of Startup Funding
Seed approach Ycombinator
Angels doing bigger rounds, VCs doing smaller round
Super-Angels: they work as a VC with large investment than
Angels
Wait till the startup is ready for investment
Too late to invest // missing the boat
Better startup founders than VCs managers
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http://www.paulgraham.com/future.html
31. http://thestartupdigest.com/
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Chris McCann
[email protected]
32. startupSQUAREGet your startup started!Tools and Services
Main
http://www.startupsquare.com/
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Espacios de Innovacin en Lnea
http://www.symbyoz.com/
Online notebookfor Social Collaboration
33. Random Hacks of Kindness: Hacking for HumanityDecember 4th and
5th, 2010
What is Random Hacks of Kindness?
Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a unique collaboration between
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and the World Bank dedicated to using
technology to make the world a better place by building a volunteer
community of innovation.
RHoK brings the ever-growing global hacker community together with
experts in disaster risk management with to identify critical
global challenges, and develop software to respond to them.A
RHoKhackathon event draws on the talents and initiative of the best
and the brightest hackers from around the world, who volunteer
their time to respond to real-world problems with solutions that
can have an immediate impact on the ground.
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34. References
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35. Where to find about startups that have been funded?
- Vator.tv - Voice of the Entrepreneur-- vator.tv
36. CrunchBase, The Free Tech Company Database--
www.crunchbase.com 37. VentureBeat Profiles - Discover find and
share information about new top startups and companies--
venturebeatprofiles.com 38. PricewaterhouseCoopers- Global-
Insights & Solutions- MoneyTree Survey Report--
https://www.pwcmoneytree.com 39. This Week In Startups--
thisweekin-startups 40. This Week In Venture Capital --
thisweekin-venture-capital 41. Mastering the VC Game by Jeffrey
Bussgang28
42. The new VC world is around the lean startup
- The Future of Startup Funding --
http://www.paulgraham.com/future.html
43. Lessons Learned --www.startuplessonslearned.com 44. Startup
Lessons Learned Conference -- www.sllconf.com 45. Startup Lessons
Learned - Videos --
http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/videos 46. Building a
Lean Startup --
http://www.slideshare.net/ashmaurya/building-a-lean-startup 47.
Lean Startup Machine NYC - Market By Numbers - Marketing Help --
lean-startup-machine-nyc 48. startupSQUARE Get your startup
started!- Tools and Services Main-- http://www.startupsquare.com/
49. How to Build a Data-Driven Startup --
http://davidcancel.com/data-driven-startups/ 50. Practice Trumps
Theory- Lean Startup + Customer Development + Bootstrap --
www.ashmaurya.com 51. Customer Development Survey -- survey.io 52.
http://thestartupdigest.com/ 53.
http://www.paulgraham.com/future.html -- a great reference of new
business creation29
54. How to get Venture Capital Investmentin the Silicon
Valley
[email protected]
[email protected]
Muito Obrigado!
San Jose, California, USA
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Presentation available in http://www.slideshare.net/zavala55
55. Examples
56. JackBe 57. AonoriAquafarm 58. Echopixel 59. Bootstrapping
Companies 60. Xpertal 61. SCIO 62. InfoLink31
