Life after your PhD

September 24th 2013Geo PhD Network, Utrecht@fnauta

1Your options

Impact Learn Fun Risk

Politics

Policy

Corporation

Consulting

Research

Science

Non-profit

Innovation EcosystemConstruction Worker

Political Assistant Deputy Mayor AmsterdamPolicy maker EPA Amsterdam & MinistryCinemaICT TrendwatcherKnowledge Land FoundationPrime Minister's Innovation PlatformConsultantProfessor Government InnovationClimate-KIC

(hopefully) the worst job I ever had

2The case for the

entrepreneur

What is entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneur(ial)

~ORIGIN early 19th cent. from French, from entreprendre ‘undertake’

~one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise

-ial: ~not afraid to undertake a challenge

Entrepreneurship

The process by which individuals – either on their own or inside organizations – pursue opportunities without regard to the resources they currently control

Stevenson, 1989

Startup

It's how all big companies start

What is a startup?

Temporary organization

designed to search

for a repeatable

and scalable business model

Blank, 2012

What is a startup?

A very risky and extremely powerful innovation tool

Nauta, 2013

The goal of a startup

Totalglobal

domination in your chosenmarket niche

Ken Morse

3How to join a startup

Step 1: Read• In the Plex - Levy

• Business Model Generation - Ostenwalder

• Startup Owners Manual - Steve Blank

• Disciplined Entrepreneurship - Aulet

• Founders at Work - Livingston

• Raising Venture Capital for Serious Entrepreneurs - Berkery

Great online resources

• ecorner.stanford.edu

- Stanford Technology Ventures Program podcast (also video)

• www.ted.com

• www.steveblank.com

• paulgraham.com/articles.html

and more resources

• WIRED Y-combinator article

• techcrunch.com

• FastCompany.com

• WIRED.com

• www.businessmodelgeneration.com

Step 2: Define role

Step 3: Find a wave

Step 4: Find startup

4The Clean Tech wave

Trend:100 GW PV per year

6What Climate-KIC

can do for you

What Climate-KIC can do for you

• Interships at Climate-KIC startups

• Interships in China, India and USA

• Climate-KIC Summer School

• Do a startup & enter Acceleration Program

Interships

ShanghaiBengaluruSilicon Valley

Boston Silicon Valley

Enjoy the surf

@fnauta