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Becoming wealthy
Creating a community
Getting critical acclaim /
Becoming industry leader
Changing society, industries
• Scalable (virtual component)
• High margin
• Recurring
• Business (life) critical
• Value for multiple stakeholders (platform)
• Small amount per transaction
Will your market position be
defensible 10 or 20 years in the
future?
Can you create breakthrough
technology?
Is now the right time to start
your business?
Are you starting with a big share of a
small market?
Do you have the
right team?Do you have a way to distribute
your product?
Have you identified a unique
opportunity that nobody sees?
« when a management with a
reputation for brilliance tackles a
business with a reputation for bad
economics, it is the reputation of the
business that remains intact »w. buffett
“… unleash a new wave of Internet
disruption that decentralizes the entire
economy”
Vision!
“Blockstream has no clear roadmap on
how it will turn an open-source
software engineering project into a
corporate money-maker. Instead,
investors took a leap of faith.”
WSJ 17/11/2014
€ 21 mio investment
from Reid Hoffman, Jerry
Yang,
Eric Schmidt, Vinod Khosla
& others
Vision?