Chicago nw presentation 5-24-11
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Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital presentation to Northwestern University
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Chicago nw presentation 5-24-11
- 1. Entrepreneur @ NW Jeff Bussgang General Partner Flybridge Capital Partners May 24, 2011
- 2. Entrepreneurship is About Passion 5/24/2011 2
- 3. And Ingenuity “It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
- 4. Summary View We are in the middle of an unprecedented boom in technology and innovation A true “Golden Age” for innovation and entrepreneurship Growth opportunity ahead of us is more rapid, and global, than ever before Despite many changes, Venture Capital plays a critical role in the ecosystem
- 6. VP at Open Market (IPO ‘96)Author: Mastering the VC Game
- 9. The “i” generation, training “Net Natives – iPod, iPhone, iPad
- 11. Nanotechnology
- 12. Completion of the Human Genome Mapping project
- 14. Green consumer
- 15. Renewable energyAn explosion in computing power, connectivity and entrepreneurship with an outlook for accelerated growth over the next 10 years
- 16. Bubble-Driven orFundamentals-Driven? IPO, $10B valuation $8-10B valuation $10B valuation IPO Filed $65B valuation $15-25B valuation
- 18. Venture Capital
- 22. Why Raise VC Money? Experience Matters: VCs have “seen the movie” over and over again and can help avoid pitfalls to find the path to success Deep Pockets: High risk tolerance and additional funding for follow-on rounds Value-Add: VCs provide domain experience, industry contacts, and strategic planning Swing Big: VCs don’t invest in niches, they invest in transformative ideas that can build large companies
- 23. Typical Investment Criteria Tangible things investors like to see: Very big market Unfair advantage Attractive business model Unique technology or business model approach Intangible things investors like to see: “Pied Piper” – an ability to recruit and retain a great team, partners Interpersonal chemistry Movie, not a snapshot
- 25. Will want to own 20-40% each
- 26. Will want to be very actively engaged (they get paid to do this!)
- 27. Can add tremendous value and be great business partners
- 28. Can be total disasters
- 29. Typically rational actors, commercially-driven, but if inexperienced…
- 30. Will want no control (“send me an annual email”)
- 31. Will want to own 1-10%
- 32. May want to be engaged or not (often a hobby, sometimes a personal mission)
- 33. Can add tremendous value and be great business partners
- 34. Can be total disasters
- 36. Shrinkage: VC Commitments VC CapitalCommitments $ Billion Source: NVCA 2011 Yearbook
- 37. Conclusion Unique and special time for entrepreneurship Unique and special time for technology and innovation Role of VC critical, valuable, evolving but rare
- 38. THANK YOU! Jeff Bussgang General Partner Flybridge Capital Partners May 2011 Blog: www.SeeingBothSides.com Twitter: @bussgang Email: jeff@flybridge.com Book: www.jeffbussgang.com
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- Every entrepreneur exhibits high level of passion (characteristic of success)--Greater Need to Change the world than there is to make money--That’s how the great entrepreneurs think. The money is nice and appreciated, but, as mentioned before, it’s almost never about the money. It’s about passion, following a dream, and changing the world (with plenty of craziness along the way). --The purpose of this book is to share the magic formula of how great entrepreneurs team with VCs to create valuable companies from raw start-up.
- Voiceovers:Over the next decade, the evolution of computing and the Internet will produce faster, increasingly intelligent devices. More of our possessions will contain sensors and computers that log our activities, building digital dossiers that augment our memories, help us make decisions and tame information overload.In the next decade as conjured by Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey, all that information will be available instantaneously, anywhere. He also thinks we'll all use this technology just to keep up with everyone else.Craig Mundie, Microsoft Corp.'s chief research and strategy officer, believes we are near a long-wished-for era of computers that respond to speech, gestures and handwriting.The 2000s saw Google become one of the world's most powerful companies because it helped us get a grip on the sprawling content of the Web. What we will need next, however, is a company that doesn't just organize data. Google, or the next Google, will have to synthesize all that information and help us understand what it all means.It used to be we investors focused on how to innvoate in the context of the $50B software industry. Now we are focused on innovating in the $15T GDP economy and
- VC Investments are very, very concetrated in the US. 70% of all VC $ flows into 3 states.Massachusetts has always been a strong #2 to California. But when you look at the numbers on a per capita basis (which is what entrepreneurs care more about – after all, it’s not very relevant how much capital is invested in China, what’s relevant is how concentrated that capital is)…