To kick off the year for spin off, the office in charge of technology transfer at the Universidad de Zaragoza, Rebeca Hwang of YouNoodle used her experience as an entrepreneur to give advice to young technology companies as well as to discuss general market trends she sees in Silicon Valley.

1. University Entrepreneurship
November 24, 2009
Spain
By Rebeca Hwang | YouNoodle | rebeca@youoodle.com

2. Some recent student start-ups:
 In the US, 1,274 students in the top 50 programs nationwide launched
businesses while still in school.
 Sam Altman, Loopt founder, 19; Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, 19;
Firefox creator Blake Ross was 17.
 MIT’s $100K competition alone has generated 85 companies, market
cap over $10BN, generating 2,500 jobs, $600M investment.
http://mit100k.org
 Academic entrepreneurs account for 8.6% of venture-backed
companies founded between 1992-2001.
 In America startups have accounted for almost ALL of the NET JOB
creation in the past two decades

3. The life of a startup and an entrepreneur:
Pre-funding Early stage Series B, C
Idea Prototype startup startup startup Exit
Infrastructure/Labs/
Machine shops, Networking
Practical classes Team Workshops
Visibility Track and support
matching Business Plan
with appropriate START OVER
Competitions
ecosystem
Innovator with
desire to become an
Innovator entrepreneur
Inspirational stories Successful
Technical education, Entrepreneur
skills

4. The life of a startup and an entrepreneur:
Pre-funding Early stage Series B, C
Idea Prototype startup startup startup Exit
Set the right
expectations
Empower and Enable and Track and
inspire Facilitate improve
START OVER
Innovator with
desire to become an
Innovator entrepreneur
Set the right
expectations
Successful
Entrepreneur

5. The path to becoming entrepreneur:
Pre-funding Early stage Series B, C
Idea Prototype startup startup startup Exit
Set the right
expectations
MIT Susan MIT 100K, YouNoodle
JA Eng Murcott MIT Ideas Squizz
START OVER
BASES
Innovator with
CTO
desire to become an
Innovator entrepreneur
Set the right
expectations
Successful
Entrepreneur

6. Overview of programs:
 BASES / Clean Tech Open / Venture Cup:
 Classes
 Entrepreneurs Thoughts Leaders Program: stories of successes and failures
 Workshops
 Online social network platform to showcase startups
 Accelerators / Startup Weekend
 Business Plan, Idea Competitions
 Speed-networking with investors
 Startup Career Fairs
 Externships, Internships, Startup mentors
 Alumni Index and Tracking
 Silicon Valley comes to Oxford
 Fantasy Startup Contest

7. Bob Goodson
Medieval Literature (MS)
Oxford University
English
Yelp.com
Rebeca Hwang
Chemical, Environmental Engineering (BS, M.Eng)
Social Network Theory (PhD)
MIT, Stanford
Korean-Argentinean
Kirill Makharinksy
Math (BS)
Oxford
Russian
Slide.com

8. Social network for entrepreneurs

9. Fast growing global community
400,000 members
50,000 startups tracked
300 groups

10. Pla>orm for compe??ons and clubs
Embedded YouNoodle
compe??on submission

11. Realized data
is valuable

12. $11987
BN $1002008
BN

14. Scores: Calcula?on

15. Labs: Network analysis

17. The Israeli Case:
 1992 Israel founded a 100 M government fund
 Despite Israelʼs small population of 7 M,
 it has attracted as much venture capital as France and Germany
combined
 it has more startups per head than any other country (3850 for every
1844 people)
 it has more companies listed in NASDAQ than China and India
combined

18. Questions?