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#500STRONG: Building Global Family, Global Community
- 2. THIS TALK
1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG
- 3. Dave McClure
Founding Partner & Chief Troublemaker, 500 Startups
00’s & 10’s:
• VC: Founders Fund, Facebook fbFund, 500 Startups
• Angel: Mashery, Mint.com, SlideShare, Twilio, Wildfire, SendGrid
• Marketing: PayPal, Simply Hired, Mint.com, oDesk, O’Reilly
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80’s & 90’s:
• Entrepreneur: Aslan Computing (acq’d by Servinet/Panurgy)
• Developer: Windows / SQL DB consultant (Intel, MSFT)
• Engineer: Johns Hopkins‘88, BS Eng / Applied Math
- 6. 1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG
- 7. • Kids & Family: Youth, Innocence.
• Education: A SENSE OF WONDER.
• Fun & Funny: Seuss, Bugs, Calvin & Hobbes
• Fantasy: Cartoons, Comics, Animation
• LOVE :)
- 8. 1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG
- 9. • Nerd Communities (Insecurity = Strength)
• Egalitarian, Meritocratic vs. Sexist, Brutish, Antisocial
• ”The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth” = Geeks Rising.
- 10. 1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG
- 11. • HiTech + Silicon Valley
• Startups + Entrepreneurship
• MONEY! FAME! (Happiness?)
• MSFT, AAPL, YHOO, AMZN, GOOG, PYPL, FB, TWTR
• Entrepreneur, Wantrepreneur, VCs, Bubbles.
- 12. THIS TALK
1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities + “Geeks On a Plane”
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG
- 13. • Y Combinator: Guild of Geeks
• 500 Startups: House of Hustle
• WarmGun: Designing Happiness
• UnSexy: B2B, Monetization
• MamaBear: Family Tech
• PreMoney: Disrupting Venture Capital
• BitCoinference + Commercism: SELL OUT COMRADES!
- 14. 1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
500 Startups + #500STRONG
- 15. • Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram
• #500STRONG = WE. ARE. SPARTA!
• Combine Previous Elements:
• Kids, Fun, Education
• Geeks & Developers
• Startups & Founders
• Aligned Communities
• Creative Mktg & Quirky Branding