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Cyprus Startup Ecosystem Stavriana A. Kofteros Career & Entrepreneurship 2014 @UCY

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Page 1: Cyprus Startup Ecosystem · •Same everywhere •SV: Just because there are VC funds doesn’t mean they will fund your start-up •Silicon Valley update - 8:10 do not get funded

Cyprus Startup Ecosystem

Stavriana A. Kofteros

Career & Entrepreneurship 2014 @UCY

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Startup Catalyst. Entrepreneurship Evangelist.

• Curator Cyprus Startup Digest • Organizer Startup Live Cyprus • Organizer Cyprus Startup Weekend • F.M. Cypriot Enterprise Link Association • Startup Cyprus Initiative • Startup Mentor & Adviser • Past Life:

– 12 years in Business Incubation; 6 as CEO of www.diogenes-incubator.com

• Day Job: – Special Entrepreneurship & RDI Adviser @Democratic Rally – Deputy Press Spokesperson @Democratic Rally

www.about.me/stavriana

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TO ECOSYSTEM

From EGOSYSTEM

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Overall Business Environment

Funding

Support Structures

Team

YOU

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Business Environment

Market

Sources of Funding

Legislature

Competition

Taxes

Gov Startup Strategy & Programs

In your market & in your country of op

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Funding

MECIT Entrepreneurial Innovation Program CyEC

CyBAN

You…

International Market =

International Investors

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Support Structures

• Startup Live

• Startup Weekend

• Open Coffee

• HackCyprus

• SpacApps

• Desk&Co

• Urban Hive

• Coworkspace

• …

• Network to get to know them

• Diogenes

• Helix

• Ermis

• ChrysalisLeap

Incubators &

Accelerators

Mentors

&

Coaches

Startup Events

CoWorking Spaces

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Team

Startup Community

Networking

Co Founders Team

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YOU. potentially a startup entrepreneur in process

Its up 2 U!

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Cyprus Entrepreneurship Ecosystem +

• Innovative Startups • Entrepreneurial Innovation

Schemes • Cyprus Entrepreneurship

Competition • Business Incubators • Research Centers • World class research results • Youth & Women

Entrepreneurship Schemes • Micro-funding Schemes

(loan): JEREMIE, PROGRESS

• CyBAN

• Change of Culture Initiated • Open Coffee Cyprus • Cypriot Enterprise Link • Hack Cyprus • Startup Grind Cyprus • Connect

• Outreach • Cyprus Startup Digest • Startup Live Cyprus • Startup Weekend Cyprus

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Cyprus Entrepreneurship Ecosystem -

• Έλλειψη Επενδυτικών Κεφαλαίων Υψηλού Ρίσκου • Έλλειψη προγραμμάτων δημιουργίας καινοτόμων

νεοφυών εταιρειών • Χαμηλή Ακαδημαϊκή Επιχειρηματικότητα • Έλλειψη διαδικασιών δημιουργίας spinoff • Έλλειψη χρηματοδότησης • Πολύ χαμηλή επένδυση στην Έρευνα (0.45% ) • Κυπριακό Όνειρο: Δημόσιο – επιλογή καριέρας…. • Έλλειψη οράματος? Ή έλλειψη αυτοπεποίθησης για

το καλύτερο αύριο?

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The Road of Success

Entrepreneurial World

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Cyprus Dream…. say what?

Thank God.

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Cyprus & Startups. Τραβάμε «ζόρι»?

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R we Startup- Challenged?

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ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET

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LET’S TALK STARTUP

Passion of CEO is the single differentiator between doing ok and doing well

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What a Startup is not!

• Startups Are Not Smaller Versions of Large Companies

• Large Companies Execute Known

Business Models

• Startups Search for Unknown Business

Models

Steve Blank

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What’s a Startup

A Temporary Organization

Designed to SEARCH

for REPEATABLE

and SCALABLE

BUSINESS MODEL

Steve Blank

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LEARN STARTUP

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Rule 1

•Be the aspirin.

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Critical Success Factor: Make.Meaning.

• world class product (whatever it is)

• have fun doing it

• in a business area or segment that is at its “ground floor” and in its infancy

• Value proposition

MIT, EDP

Be the aspirin for your customer’s headache

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Don’t fall in love with the technology.

Fall in love with the customer

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Rule 2

•Be a Pig.

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What R U?

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More Rules

3. Team up. Get co-founders.

4. Evangelize idea.

5. Get great Mentors.

6. Public speaking training.

7. Pitch. Pitch. Pitch.

8. Network. Network. Network

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• TALK.TO.THE.CUSTOMER.

• Write /Revise BP.

• Do Not Self - Fulfill (your) prophecies.

• There is always competition.

• Build the product fast. MVP. • Test it.

• Fail Fast. Re-build. Retest.

• Get Traction.

Lean Startup Methodology

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R u scared? Good.

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Let’s talk money

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Raising Funds

• Same everywhere

• SV: Just because there are VC funds doesn’t mean they will fund your start-up

• Silicon Valley update - 8:10 do not get funded

• VCs don’t really jump to invest in early stage…. – Funder of Pandora.com got rejected by 300 investors…

• Plan to build your company without any outside

investment Bootstrap • Then maybe you are ready to speak to potential

investors

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Creative fundraising

1. Apply for Crowd-funding (e.g. kickstarter) 2. Get a Loan from 3Fs 3. Apply to Startup… Chile…! 4. Use your Credit Cards 5. Start Side Projects

Money shouldn’t be an objection when you’re starting a company. Be creative.

Carlos Solorio, Founder of Arden Reed, a custom menswear company.

http://under30ceo.com/5-creative-ways-raise-money-without-giving-equity/

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Why Startups Fail?

Most startups fail

from lack of customers

not from failure of product development

Steve Blank

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BE THE CHANGE. BE CRAZY.