1. MARCO MARINUCCI
Founder & CEO, Mind the Bridge Foundation
ALBERTO ONETTI
Chairman, Mind the Bridge Foundation
Naples – May 12, 2014
Entrepreneurship 360
@MindTheBridge
#jobcreator
5. The Entrepreneur profile:
Italy vs. US
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Entrepreneurs 30 to 49 started businesses at a
higher rate than other age groups did
The Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom
Startup Environment Index 2012 Mind The Bridge Survey 2012
Age distribution
In Italy 84% are in the 26-45 range. 33 is the
average age
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2 A third of startup owners were women Female entrepreneurs are only 11%
Gender
19% had master’s degrees while 8%
professionals or doctorate
Education
3 42% have a master degree while 11%a Ph.D. or
MBA
Prior Experience
4 57% have 6+yrs of prior
industry/work experience
and 44% had started
companies in the past
Funding & Incubation period
Almost 80% has 8/9 yrs avg.
prior working experience
and 23% has founded at
least one company before
5 80% of early-stage business
owners in US used personal
funds to finance their
companies.
Bootstrapping rules (58%),
while 38% got also funding
by external investors.
More info here: “Startups - Italy vs US - Onetti IID 2013”, A. Onetti, Italian Innovation Day, Mountain View, 2013
7. The Business Plan?
“Business plans and 5 years financial
projections are a waste of time”
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Dave McClure
“They came to me with no business
plan” Intel 1968
“No one besides venture
capitalists and the late
Soviet Union requires five-
year plans to forecast
complete unknowns”
Steve Blank
8. The Lean Startup Methodology
“The Lean Startup method teaches you
how to drive a startup, how to steer,
when to turn, and when to persevere
and grow a business with maximum
acceleration.”
Eric Ries
Vision Steer Accelerate
TEST the product, collect
FEEDBACK, understand
CUSTOMERS NEEDS
FAIL fast (Pivoting?)
or GROW fast.
MODIFY your MVP, IMPROVE it
SCALE
“Get out of the Building!”
9. Build-Measure-Learn
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3 2
What is the problem we aim at
solving?
MVP: Minimum Viable Product
Metrics, Traction
No plan survives first
contact with customers
Pivoting or scale?
Validated learning
11. Founders’ capital,
Savings, Family,
Friends
Seed Investors,
Crowdfunding,
Angels,
Early stage VC
(Series A)
Venture Debt, Loans,
Working Capital
Lines, Strategic
Partners, Retained
earnings
Later Stage VC
(Series B+),
Corporate VC,
Private placement,
Public markets
The Funding Sources
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Bootstrapping Equity Financing
Early sources
Later sources
12. Angels: General Investment
Process
Informal
Close to Home
Ancillary
Individual vs Group Investment
Source:
NVCA Yearbook
Center for Venture Research, University of New
Hampshire
John Backus, 2012
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13. VC: General Investment Process
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Limited Partners
VC Firm (General Partners)
Startup Companies
IPO/M&A
Fund Fund Fund
Exit
Distributions Fundraising Commitments
Investment DisbursementsProceeds
14. Valuation is a two side process
Size of market opportunity
how big is the market segment, what market share can you
gain?
Comparables
Multiple of Revenue (trailing/forward) or EBITDA
Terms
Liquidation Preferences/Management Carve-out/Cash vs
Paper/Earn-out/Lock-up
Time
Better «quick and dirty» than never
Ultimately
Bid vs. Ask negotiation
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15. VC Average Investment Portfolio
DEFAULTS
BREAKEVEN
“FIRE SALES”
ZOMBIES
IPO/M&A
GOOD IPO/M&A
WILD ONES (IPO)
TOTAL
60%
12%
10%
8%
6%
4%
0%
100%
Source: ATV
28. What’s shaking?
1. The lean startup movement
Lean Startups do not require a lot of cash
The startup no longer needs $5M before
launching
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LEAN is everywhere
29. 2. The rise of
accelerators and
incubators
Plenty of
“Archimedes labs”
all over the world
Typically under
$20,000 money
offered
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What’s shaking?
30. Source:
Duncan Davidson (Bullpen Capital) cited in No.1 -
The Startup Valley of Death - December 2013
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3. Accelerators’
Bubble?
Seed capital and
growth capital is
available
Only 27% are
funded after 1 year
What’s shaking?
31. 4. The retreat of VCs to
later stage (Series A
Crunch)
Why not wait to see who
did well and selectively
invest only in the winners?
Most VCs abandoned early
stage investing
+90% of startups and 73% of
incubated startups end up
in the Valley of Death
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What’s shaking?
32. Angel vs Venture Capital Investments
There is a lot of angel
money ($20B), indeed:
3X the money that goes
in to Early-Stage Venture
($7.4B)
1.5X the money that
goes in to late stage
venture
Source:
NVCA Yearbook
Center for Venture Research, University of New Hampshire
John Backus, 2012
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33. 5.Angel Bubble?
Only 2.5% of angel-
funded companies will
ever raise venture capital.
What happens to the rest?
Acqui-hiring= nice exits
Source:
NVCA Yearbook
Center for Venture Research,
University of New Hampshire
John Backus, 2012
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“We are in an angel bubble that will keep inflating
when Crowdfunding meets Main Street in 2013.
The bubble will burst. Not tomorrow. But soon”
(John Backus, NAV)
What’s shaking?
34. 6. The Series B Trap
Source: No.1 - The Startup Valley
of Death - December 2013
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Pile of cash for
companies that
get the elusive “traction”
Raising tens or even
hundreds of millions of
dollars without massive
dilution
What’s shaking?
35. 6. (Equity) Crowdfunding
Disintermediation
Transparency
Lowering the bar: We are all
investors
Syndicates= VC like $$
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What’s shaking?
36. 7. Acqui-Hires fuel the Market
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What’s shaking?
Top 10 Acquirers In Silicon Valley
1 Cisco 160
2 Google 143
3 Microsoft 132
4 IBM 117
5 Yahoo! 107
6 Rent My Vacation Home USA 96
7 Hewlett-Packard 86
8 Oracle Corporation 84
9 AOL 62
10 EMC 58
Font: Crunchbase April 2014
38. In total, the startups acquired raised $73M in
funding across 42 transactions prior to being
acquired by Twitter.
Of the acquired startups that raised funding, only 6
ever reached the Series B stage.
9 startups were acquired by Twitter after receiving
just seed or angel funding.
On average, Twitter startups with funding raised 2.4
rounds prior to acquisition.
The average time between first funding and
acquisition was 2.1 years.
18/31 acquisitions have come since 2012
highlighting the company’s accelerated pace of
acquisition.
Twitter Acquisition Strategy
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39. 58% of Twitter’s
acquired firms were
based in California.
10% of acquisitions
each were for New
York or Massachusetts-
based companies.
Twitter Acquisitions: Locations
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41. VIDEO: WHY FB BUYS STARTUPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlBDyItD0Ak
”My company acquires other, smaller startups to hire great people.
The fact that so many of the people who are leading products
within Facebook are coming from a
startup just creates an incredibly
entrepreneurial environment at scale.”
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Facebook
“We think about either acquiring
talent or actually looking at
technologies that we can bring
in and build products on.”
“We don’t usually acquire products.”
Christian Hernandez, Facebook’s head of
international business development
Facebook Acquisition Strategy
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42. Before getting acquired, Glancee had only been
downloaded 30k times and 20k users using it in the
background on their iPhone
Instagram had 35 million users and was growing fast.
INSTAGRAM vs GLANCEE
Facebook -> Glancee
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Deal Glancee was last acquisition
before IPO (after Instagram), mainly
undisclosed terms
Acquihired: Talent & Technology acquisition
43. Facebook -> WhatsApp
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Regarding the size it is equal to 25 Instagram ones
WHATSAPP vs INSTAGRAM
Instagram had 13 employees before the deal.
WhatsApp and its 55 employees were gaining
one million new users every day.
Deal WhatsApp will operate
independently retaining its brand, $3B
stock options for founders and
empoyees if they work at least 4years
@ Facebook
44. 1. Let’s build Entrepreneural Ecosystems thinking at
long term economical impact
2. Startups cannot prosper in a vacuum: smart
money + exit strategies needed + link to large
corporates
3. Education is key at startup/investor/corporate
levels
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Conclusions
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