5. Quick review of prior material
ď‚— Personal Wealth
ď‚— Non disclosure agreement (NDA)
ď‚— Debt financing
ď‚— Contracts
ď‚— Equity financing
ď‚— Incorporation ď‚— Fundraising rounds
ď‚— Sole proprietorship ď‚— Friends and family round
ď‚— Partnership ď‚— Angel round
ď‚— C-corporation ď‚— Super angles
ď‚— Venture capitalist
ď‚— LLC
 Series A, B, C… etc
ď‚— S-corporation
ď‚— Cramdown rounds
ď‚— Liability shield
ď‚— Convertible Notes
ď‚— Stock and shares ď‚— Exit
ď‚— Common stock ď‚— IPO
ď‚— Preferred stock ď‚— Acquisition
ď‚— Stock options ď‚— Lifestyle business
ď‚— Vesting ď‚— The startup lifecycle
ď‚— Venture capital history
ď‚— Dilution
ď‚— Equity and dilution calculators
ď‚— Patents
ď‚— Capitalization tables
ď‚— Crowd funding
ď‚— Competitions and grants
ď‚— Incubators
6.
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8. Team and Finding Co-founders
ď‚— The team is the absolute most important thing in a startup
ď‚— Team problems tend to destroy startups
ď‚— Best case is to work with people you already know and have
relationships with
ď‚— Classmates, friends, etc.
ď‚— Vet others and their skill by doing small projects
ď‚— Many times, swapping part of your time for part of his/her
time works well and transitions into joining forces
9. Getting Involved in Startups
ď‚— News
ď‚— Meetup groups
ď‚— Conferences
ď‚— Hackathons
ď‚— Startup Weekend
11. Meetup Groups
ď‚— Hackers and Founders
http://www.hackersandfounders.com/
ď‚— Funders and Founders
http://fundersandfounders.com/
ď‚— Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs
http://www.sventrepreneurs.net/
12. Conferences
ď‚— The startup conference
http://thestartupconference.com/
ď‚— SXSW (South by Southwest)
http://sxsw.com/
ď‚— Failcon
http://thefailcon.com/
ď‚— Techcrunch Disrupt
http://techcrunch.com/events/
13. Hackathons
ď‚— Event where lots of programmers build new projects
ď‚— Usually has a theme
ď‚— E.g. Facebook, iPhone, Windows 8
ď‚— Most take place in one day
ď‚— Decent place to find great
programmers
14. Startup Weekend
ď‚— Like a hackathon, generally brings a lot more non-
engineers
ď‚— Launch a startup in 54 hours
ď‚— http://startupweekend.org/
ď‚— Great place to build relationships with entrepreneurs
16. Here’s a reminder of what we went through
Session Topic
1 Context of Web Startups, The Lean Startup
2 Pitches, Business Planning
3 Product Design: Planning and UX
4 Website Introduction, CMS tools
5 Coding Basics, Frontend programming
6 Backend programming, comparison of frameworks
7 Servers, Deployment, Release cycles, project management
8 Marketing, user acquisition, analytics
9 Legal, Finance and Incubation
10 Final Project Presentations, wrap-up
17. Homework
Start your own startup
If you have time, watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSlwuafyUUo&feature=gv&hl=en#!