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April 26, 2012

Shai GoldmanTwitter @shaig

sgoldman@svb.comhttp://www.slideshare.net/goldfinger80/ccny

• 30 years old• Clients: Tech Companies, Venture Capital (VC)

Firms, Premium Wineries• 12,000 clients• Over 50% of all VC backed start ups• Global: US, China, India, UK, Israel

I’m not a VC or CEO/Founder…

• Working with VCs and Startups for 10 years• 9+ years in the Bay Area• 1+ year in New York City• Work with over 100 startups in NYC• Helped hundreds of startups raise VC money

Benefits of a Startup

• Build a product that people use• Smaller companies• Smaller teams• More collaboration• You can build a company• Work with creative people• Work closely with the executive team• Less “rules”• You can change the world• Equity / Upside if startup gets acquired / IPOs

Challenges with a Startup

• Less compensation• Benefits are not as good (insurance, 401K plan,

education, etc.)• Less stability• Longer hours typically• You don’t perform, you get fired QUICKLY

Motivation of starting a company

• Change the world• Be your own boss (until you raise VC money)• Make a lot of money• Build your own product

VC Backed Founders - Under 22 Yrs Old

• Facebook• Tumblr• Greplin• Kiip• Codecademy• Box• One• Coursekit• MyYearBook• MinoMonsters• Gumroad• InDinero• iContact

VC Backed Founders with Business Background

• Thumb• Bonobos• Warby Parker• Rent The Runway• Birchbox• Trunk Club• Betterworks• Voxer• Instagram• Chloe & Isabel• Foursquare• Meebo

Startup Jobs Resources• NETWORKING• HackNY• NYC Turing Fellows• Uncubed• GitHub• StackOverflow• LinkedIn• Hackstars• We Are NY Tech• VentureLoop• StartupHire• AngelList• Work At A Startup ( Y Combinator program)

Resources of NYC startup events

• Startup Digest• General Assembly• Charlie O’Donnell - http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/nycevents/

• Gary’s Guide• Meetup• NY Tech Meetup• FounderDating

Education

• General Assembly• SkillShare• Codecademy (free)• Lean Startup Machine• Boston Startup School (free)• Startup Weekend • 3DS (3 Day Startup)• Blogs (Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, Mark Suster, Ben

Horowitz)

Hacking• iOS / Android• Ruby / Rails• Python• Django• JSON• Node.js• NoSQL / MySQL• AWS• Hadoop• Heroku• HTML5• Javascript• APIs

Co-Working

• General Assembly• WeWork Labs• NewWorkCity• Projective Space• Hive 55• NYU-Poly Incubators

Accelerators

• Techstars• DreamIt• ER Accelerator• BluePrint Health• Startup Health• Fintech Innovation Lab• Women in Wireless• Astia• Brooklyn Beta• Founder Institute• Teens in Tech (Bay Area)• Y Combinator (Bay Area)

TrendsSoftware– Ecommerce– FinTech– AdTech– SaaS– Enterprise– Big Data– Healthcare IT– Marketplaces– P2P– Gaming– Digital Media (photos/video/music/content)– Energy Efficiency / Monitoring

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