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Presentation to students at CCNY - City College of New YorkTRANSCRIPT
• 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
