bridget bridget harris buskers guide to startups bos2016
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Bridget Harris co-founder & CEO
@bridgettoday
“We’ve got no money so we have to think”
Ernest Rutherford, Physicist
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You’ll grow quicker!You’ll make more money!
You’ll access great advisors!
“it takes about ten years before your company really hits its stride.”
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“The strategies employed to pursue the 30% for $3M,
are often in direct opposition to the strategies needed for a 0.3% shot at making $300M”
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“Maybe some percentage, larger than 95% of VCs, add zero value, and 70% of VCs add negative value in advising.”
“Government is the badge of lost innocence”
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
“There are only two possible outcomes to this decision: Hire or No Hire.”
Joel Spolsky, JoelonSoftware.com
We made three main assumptions
not London
London
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We were wrong about all three assumptions
not Bedford
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not Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedford
definitely not Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedfordnot Bedford
how we hire
actual classical musician
stage 1 - the advert
On stage one, we say NO when...
stage 2 - the questionnaire
On second round, we say NO when we see...
On second round, we say NO when we see...
On second round, we say NO when we see...
On second round, we say NO when we see...
On second round, we say NO when we see...
On second round, we say NO when we see...
Stage 3 - the video call
On third round, interview / skype round, we say NO when
At every stage we are looking for
reasons not to hire them.
If not them, then who?
stage 4 - the contract
questions….