Building a “Rocket” BusinessHow to get “Venture” Funded.

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Building a “Rocket” BusinessHow to get “Venture” Funded.

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We all have Problems. The way we solve them is what

makes us different.

- Unknown Author

What Business Are you in?

Venture Capital

Who Built Facebook?

Who Built Facebook?

How Many “Projects” Did Zuckerberg build before Facebook?

Less Than 2% of Startups get

Venture Funded.

The Fact

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Understanding “Cost of Capital”

Friends and Family

Small Business Loan

Bank Loan

Credit Card

Venture Capital

Almost 0%

~ 9% ~ 11% ~24% Min 20% - 500%

Venture Capital, is for the rare “moon-shot” ventures, where you can promise everything, or end up with nothing.

But Startups DO get Venture Funded.What are some of the commonalities with all of them?

1. Solve Big Problems

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2. Leverage Technology

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3. Be Darn Good at What you do

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4. Lead. *Ahem*, that’ll mean you need a team

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5. Build a Business, solving Real Problems

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6. Experience Counts

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7. Build Your +1 SkillsetBuild your Spikes.

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If you don’t succeed at first,

try, try again.

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Are you really building a

rocket?

Winning, must mean something. There is no

point investing in a company, to win and

to not get a substantial return – or to not impact the world.

Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures – Co-Founder at Sun Microsystems

Questions?

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