The document discusses how to successfully start a technology startup and make money from it. It provides background on Enterprise Ventures, which invests in early-stage technology companies. It then outlines some common assumptions about starting a company, and suggests that success requires finding a large market opportunity, developing a differentiated idea, building a strong founding team, obtaining venture capital funding, and having some luck with timing. The outcome is likely to be gaining experience even if the first company does not generate much cash.

1. Enterprise beyond the university gates Ed French, Enterprise Ventures

4. Technology Portfolio Spread

5. Starting Assumptions?

8. Market Opportunity