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1. Startup Capital Ventures Š2013 Page 1
Tim Dick
Make It Happen
(Confessions Of A Serial
Entrepreneur Turned VC)
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⢠First date...
⢠IPO...
⢠Global trust standard (non-profit)
⢠Eight years too early - that recently exited!
⢠One âcontroversyâ
⢠One turnaround
⢠$300 million raised
⢠$1.2 billion exit valuations
Serial Entrepreneur...
World
Pages
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The Best Of Times...
⢠Living the dream
⢠Building a team you love to work with
⢠Building a culture with values that are important to you
⢠Doing things you never imagined...
⢠You love your company like a child - no matter what it does...
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The Worst Of Times...
⢠Founders often have to finance their dreams
⢠Insanely great companies take insanely hard work...
⢠Having to fire people
⢠Not all companies make it =:-(
⢠The hottest fire forges the strongest steel
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Living The Dream
⢠Find your passion - a belief that you are doing
something greater than just building a company or
making money
⢠Find ways to give back*
* Only OCD entrepreneurs found nonprofits...
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Being CEO!
Company
(No Pressure...)
Competitors Customers
CEO
Board Of Directors
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$Investors
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Team (Those People You Will Be
Working With 6 x 18...)
⢠Value integrity above all else
⢠Hire only the best people (or go without until
you find âem)
⢠Working with friends can be tough (remember
the firing bit...)
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Find Your Company Mantra...
⢠5 words max.
⢠Tells the world (and most importantly your team)
⢠1,000 songs in your pocket
⢠Ultimate Driving Machine
⢠Hawaiiâs Interisland Highway
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Are You Game-Changing?
⢠Not âitâs like X but better...â
⢠Break barriers!
⢠First online dating site
⢠First white & yellow pages
⢠First online trust & privacy standard
⢠First online advocacy engine
⢠Bring your car
⢠Worldâs only 2G / 3G / 4G / XG cellular amplifier
⢠Will someone (not everyone...) love (REALLY LOVE) your
product?
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Who Is Your Customer?
⢠Is it you?
⢠If itâs not you...
⢠How do you know that your customers
⢠deeply
⢠passionately
⢠want your product so much
⢠(more than any of your competitors)
⢠they are willing to pay you more for it than it costs you to make
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Balanced Development...
Second
First
Financing
Seed
Founder
Developers
CEO
Core Team
Full Team
Product
Market
Team
Production
First product
Patent(s)
Demonstration
Concept
RepeatBuys
PaidCustomers
Betasites
Potentialpartners
Size/Segments
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Your Ecosystem (Whatâs Outside
Your Habitrail)
⢠Itâs hard to see the picture from inside the frame
⢠Eugene Kleiner
⢠Build a GREAT board for âthe voice of experienceâ and to help
open doors
⢠The right law firm...
⢠Will help you incorporate and develop governance
⢠Will help with contracts & financing
⢠File patents and copyrights
⢠(Got the message?)
⢠Get a real accountant or bookkeeper (really)
⢠EF Hawaii
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Rules To Live By
⢠You can only lose your integrity once: never
compromise on finding the best partners, employees
& investors
⢠Build partnerships with all stakeholders
⢠Resist âCEO-itisâ
⢠Have a life
⢠Never, Never, Never Give Up
⢠Winston Churchill (1941)
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The Difference Between Visionaries
And Dreamers...
...Visionaries Make It Happen
Timothy Dick
tdick@startupcv.com
Startup Capital Ventures Š2013