Talk for Graduate School of Geo Sciences Utrecht University

1. Life after your PhD
September 24th 2013
Geo PhD Network, Utrecht
@fnauta

2. 1
Your options

3. Impact Learn Fun Risk
Politics
Policy
Corporation
Consulting
Research
Science
Non-profit

4. Innovation Ecosystem
Construction Worker
Political Assistant Deputy Mayor Amsterdam
Policy maker EPA Amsterdam & Ministry
Cinema
ICT Trendwatcher
Knowledge Land Foundation
Prime Minister's Innovation Platform
Consultant
Professor Government Innovation
Climate-KIC

5. (hopefully) the
worst job I ever had

6. 2
The case for the
entrepreneur

7. What is
entrepreneurship?

8. 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

9. 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

11. Startup

12. It's how all big
companies start

13. What is a startup?
Temporary organization
designed to search
for a repeatable
and scalable business model
Blank, 2012

14. What is a startup?
A very risky and extremely
powerful innovation tool
Nauta, 2013

15. The goal of a startup
Total
global
domination
in your chosen
market niche
Ken Morse

16. 3
How to join a startup

17. 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

18. Great online resources
• ecorner.stanford.edu
- Stanford Technology Ventures Program podcast
(also video)
• www.ted.com
• www.steveblank.com
• paulgraham.com/articles.html

19. and more resources
• WIRED Y-combinator article
• techcrunch.com
• FastCompany.com
• WIRED.com
• www.businessmodelgeneration.com

20. Step 2: Define role

21. Step 3: Find a wave

22. Step 4: Find startup

23. 4
The Clean Tech wave

25. Trend:
100 GW PV per year

30. 6
What Climate-KIC
can do for you

31. 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

32. Interships
ShanghaiBengaluruSilicon Valley
Boston Silicon Valley

34. Enjoy the surf
@fnauta