#500STRONG B U I L D I N G A G L O B A L C O M M U N I T Y

@ D A V E M C C L U R E @ 5 0 0 S T A R T U P S F E B 2 0 1 4 # C M X S U M M I T

T H I S T A L K

1. Cats & Hats

2. Geeks & Developers

3. Founders & Startups

4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane

5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG

Dave McClureFounding Partner & Chief Troublemaker, 500 Startups

00’s & 10’s: • VC: Founders Fund, Facebook fbFund, 500 Startups • Angel: Mashery, Mint.com, SlideShare, Twilio, Wildfire, SendGrid • Marketing: PayPal, Simply Hired, Mint.com, oDesk, O’Reilly !80’s & 90’s: • Entrepreneur: Aslan Computing (acq’d by Servinet/Panurgy) • Developer: Windows / SQL DB consultant (Intel, MSFT) • Engineer: Johns Hopkins‘88, BS Eng / Applied Math

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1 0 0 0 + F O U N D E R S , 2 0 0 + M E N T O R S

1. Cats & Hats

2. Geeks & Developers

3. Founders & Startups

4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane

5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG

• Kids & Family: Youth, Innocence.

• Education: A SENSE OF WONDER.

• Fun & Funny: Seuss, Bugs, Calvin & Hobbes

• Fantasy: Cartoons, Comics, Animation

• LOVE :)

1. Cats & Hats

2. Geeks & Developers

3. Founders & Startups

4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane

5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG

• Nerd Communities (Insecurity = Strength)

• Egalitarian, Meritocratic vs. Sexist, Brutish, Antisocial

• ”The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth” = Geeks Rising.

1. Cats & Hats

2. Geeks & Developers

3. Founders & Startups

4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane

5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG

• HiTech + Silicon Valley

• Startups + Entrepreneurship

• MONEY! FAME! (Happiness?)

• MSFT, AAPL, YHOO, AMZN, GOOG, PYPL, FB, TWTR

• Entrepreneur, Wantrepreneur, VCs, Bubbles.

T H I S T A L K

1. Cats & Hats

2. Geeks & Developers

3. Founders & Startups

4. Branded Communities + “Geeks On a Plane”

5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG

• Y Combinator: Guild of Geeks

• 500 Startups: House of Hustle

• WarmGun: Designing Happiness

• UnSexy: B2B, Monetization

• MamaBear: Family Tech

• PreMoney: Disrupting Venture Capital

• BitCoinference + Commercism: SELL OUT COMRADES!

1. Cats & Hats

2. Geeks & Developers

3. Founders & Startups

4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane

500 Startups + #500STRONG

• Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram

• #500STRONG = WE. ARE. SPARTA!

• Combine Previous Elements:

• Kids, Fun, Education

• Geeks & Developers

• Startups & Founders

• Aligned Communities

• Creative Mktg & Quirky Branding

T H A N K S 4 L I S T E N I N G !

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• Heckles?

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• @DaveMcClure

• http://500.co