Building Local Infrastructure for Company Growth

Tobias Stone @theonlytoby

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= ECOSYSTEM

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Local Infrastructure for Company

Growth

ECOSYSTEM = (THIS WEEKEND)

•  Accelerators

•  Startups

•  Angel investors

•  Mentors

ALSO NEED (ideally) •  Government

•  Universities

•  Businesses

•  Journalists

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CONNECT to the REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM

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BOSNIA

Belgrade

Sofia Zagreb

SEE ICT Impact Hub

SBAN StartLabs

Eleven Launchub Betahaus

Terres Capital

Zip Incubator Netocratija Impact Hub

CONNECT to EUROPE

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SEE London

Berlin

Nordic

Lots of others

Seedcamp TechHub

StartupBootcamp TechCrunch

(and loads more) StartupBootcamp Betahaus Hub:Raum

VentureVillage SiliconAlle

StartupBootcamp SICS

StartupSauna StartupWiseguys

Arctic Startup

CONNECT to THE WORLD

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EUROPE

USA

SEE

Bosnia

China

THE NETWORK IS HERE

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SEE London

Berlin

Nordic

Lots of others

THE NETWORK IS HERE

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SEE London

Berlin

Nordic

Lots of others

WORK TOGETHER •  A strong ecosystem attracts other people

–  We are here this weekend because of a cluster of activity

•  Investors, mentors, journalists are attracted to clusters of activity

•  Support each other to make the ecosystem successful

•  As an ecosystem, you need one success •  One successful startup will make the whole

ecosystem more successful

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GIVE BACK

A good startup ecosystem is generous •  We all need a strong ecosystem to do the thing

we do in that ecosystem •  We are helping create the startups that become

our news stories, join our accelerators, become our investments

•  The sponsors and partners are helping create new customers, or drive economic development

•  (each startup joining an accelerator creates 2-3 jobs each time it raises money)

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SHINE TOGETHER

•  One startup in Bosnia will not shine brightly enough to be seen in London or San Francisco

•  Shine together to make the light brighter

•  What can you do well as an ecosystem?

•  Solve real problems, don’t try to copy Silicon Valley

•  (they have an advantage – they are in Silicon Valley)

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ROLE MODELS

•  Farmeron –  Osijek –  Seedcamp London –  500 Startups –  Silicon Valley

•  Truck Track –  Belgrade –  Seedcamp London

•  Babywatch / Belabeat –  Zagreb –  StartupBootcamp

Berlin –  Ycombinator

•  Teddy the Guardian

–  Zagreb –  Seedcamp London

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ROLE MODELS

•  Farmeron

•  Truck Track •  Babywatch / Belabeat

•  Teddy the Guardian

These startups all solved simple, real, local problems They did not try to be the next Facebook Solve problems you understand

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READ THIS

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SOCIAL NETWORKS

TEAM BOSNIA

STARTUPS

MENTORS

INVESTORS

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ECOSYSTEM =

THANK YOU

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Tobias Stone

www.tobiasstone.com

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