spark.me learning to fly
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Learning to fly: building tech startups in CEE
Spark.me, 26 september
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The fabulous me
• Small time tech entrepreneur• Founded of How to Web & Startup Spotlight• Also founded Tech Hub Bucharest, Tech Angels
and others• Mentor at Seedcamp, Springboard / Tech
Stars, Eleven, LAUNCHub, Rockstart, HackFWD and others
• @bogdaniordache
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Who are we?
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The h4ck3rs
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Engineering + lack of resources = the hacking culture
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#1 Engineers build good tools for engineers
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Market disconnection
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Does it worth it?
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Local product companies
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Service oriented companies
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40 developers x 8 hours x 22 days x 12 months x 50 USD / hour
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Evernote?
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#2 Building innovative products for the global web
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Look for models
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Nordeus, LogMeIn, Bitdefender, Avangate, Prezi, Telerik, Ubervu, 123ContactForm,
Codeanywhere, Mavenhut ….
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SaaS or gaming
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MVP costs, later monetization?
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#3 Evaluate SaaS and gaming first
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Tons of learning resources
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Stanford, MIT, Harvard
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TechCrunch, PandoDaily, TheNextWeb
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Tens of blogs
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Meet your local community
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#4 Connect to your local community & to global knowledge
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Money & learning
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Early stage money? Ha!
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Tens of accelerators
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#5 Reach out to accelerators
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Building a startup is a learning process
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Meet mentors, decrypt message, repeat
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Mentors are biased
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Mentors are not necessarelly clients
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Skin in the game?
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#6 Figure out not what mentors are saying, but why
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Hope you enjoyed it
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Best time to start.
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You’ve got no excuse.
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Start it now.
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Thank you!