1. Brad Gillespie
brad@gillespie.fm

15. All Ideas
Good
Ideas

19. Product Maturity
Refining with your customers
• Talking to them
• Watching them
• Measuring them
Creating
Bringing your vision to life
Time

20. Dave McClure
Startup Metrics For Pirates
www.500hats.com

22. As much value to you
as to your potential
investors
Clarify your value
proposition
Be clear about your
moat

24. Friends & Angel & Venture
Self Funded Private Equity
Family Early-Stage Capital

27. The VC model was developed in-part to build products
with high upfront costs, it is not appropriate for all
startups.
The technological landscape has changed what it takes
to create a successful product.
The economic contraction is the new normal.

29. http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/03/entrepreneurs-dont-be-afraid-of-gdp-growth-rate.html

32. http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/03/in-the-us-mobile-internet-usage-is-at-leasat-onethird-and-maybe-onehalf-of-wired-internet-usage.html