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Life after your PhD
September 24th 2013Geo PhD Network, Utrecht@fnauta
1Your options
Impact Learn Fun Risk
Politics
Policy
Corporation
Consulting
Research
Science
Non-profit
Innovation EcosystemConstruction Worker
Political Assistant Deputy Mayor AmsterdamPolicy maker EPA Amsterdam & MinistryCinemaICT TrendwatcherKnowledge Land FoundationPrime Minister's Innovation PlatformConsultantProfessor Government InnovationClimate-KIC
(hopefully) the worst job I ever had
2The case for the
entrepreneur
What is entrepreneurship?
Entrepreneur(ial)
~ORIGIN early 19th cent. from French, from entreprendre ‘undertake’
~one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise
-ial: ~not afraid to undertake a challenge
Entrepreneurship
The process by which individuals – either on their own or inside organizations – pursue opportunities without regard to the resources they currently control
Stevenson, 1989
Startup
It's how all big companies start
What is a startup?
Temporary organization
designed to search
for a repeatable
and scalable business model
Blank, 2012
What is a startup?
A very risky and extremely powerful innovation tool
Nauta, 2013
The goal of a startup
Totalglobal
domination in your chosenmarket niche
Ken Morse
3How to join a startup
Step 1: Read• In the Plex - Levy
• Business Model Generation - Ostenwalder
• Startup Owners Manual - Steve Blank
• Disciplined Entrepreneurship - Aulet
• Founders at Work - Livingston
• Raising Venture Capital for Serious Entrepreneurs - Berkery
Great online resources
• ecorner.stanford.edu
- Stanford Technology Ventures Program podcast (also video)
• www.ted.com
• www.steveblank.com
• paulgraham.com/articles.html
and more resources
• WIRED Y-combinator article
• techcrunch.com
• FastCompany.com
• WIRED.com
• www.businessmodelgeneration.com
Step 2: Define role
Step 3: Find a wave
Step 4: Find startup
4The Clean Tech wave
Trend:100 GW PV per year
6What Climate-KIC
can do for you
What Climate-KIC can do for you
• Interships at Climate-KIC startups
• Interships in China, India and USA
• Climate-KIC Summer School
• Do a startup & enter Acceleration Program
Interships
ShanghaiBengaluruSilicon Valley
Boston Silicon Valley
Enjoy the surf
@fnauta