just found this presentation I gave back in 2009. If you can live with this stripped down format: enjoy. I still believe that everything I said then is valid today. The punch line was: "What is your Excuse not to be in Silicon Valley". Well I still have mine.

1. Can Do 2009.
Stephan Uhrenbacher
Founder

2. 6 Years

3. Less Local Competition

4. More Money than
Investment
Opportunities...

5. ... but Harder to Find
Funding.

6. Apple‘s App Store:
Marketing has never
been so easy.

7. Cloud Computing:
Technology avaiable and
cheap

8. Competition is Global.
Really.

9. Barriers to Entry
Cease to Exist.

10. Conclusions

11. 1. Know Your Stuff.

12. 2. Reiterate Your Model
Until it Works

13. 3. Do One Thing Better
than Anybody Else.

14. 4. Throw Away
Everything that is Not
Necessary.

15. 5. Define How You
Compensate for Not
Being in the Bay Area.

16. 6. Find the Best People.
„Hire the Guy who was born in the
wrong country, on the wrong side of
the fence, with the wrong education,
but with the right attitude.“

17. 7. Make Some
Money Fast.

18. Contact:
twitter.com/stephanu
stephan-uhrenbacher.com
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