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      Greg Baine
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Decrease the
Likelihood of Failure
         Shai Goldman
      Silicon Valley Bank
            @shaig
Silicon Valley Bank
•   Commercial bank

    •   checking/savings accounts, debit/credit card, loans, merchant
        services

•   30 years

•   2 main markets

    •   Tech startups / companies

    •   VC / PE firms

•   Global

    •   Israel, UK, China, India, US (26 cities)
Background

• Since 2001 - worked with
 • several hundred startups
 • several hundred VC firms
• Bay Area and NYC
• Fundraising, community building, business development
Startups

• Most startups fail (90%+) :(
• How do you increase likelihood of success?
• How do you decrease likelihood of failure?
Common Thread
Risks
• Market
• Product
• Team
• Execution
• Timing
• Financing
Most Valuable
 Resource?
Founders try to save $
 by doing their own:
• Legal Work
• Accounting Work
• HR Work
• Landlord / Tenant Work
• Banking Work
Founders are actually
losing $ (i.e. their time)
• Banking
• Accounting
• Law Firms
• Real Estate Broker
• HR Firms
Don’t Screw Up
Cap Table

• Giving away too much equity to investors
• Preferences
• Not giving enough equity to employees
Cash

• Not raising enough $$
• Don’t get caught in the fundraising circle of death
• Raising enough for 18 months, ideally 24 months
Events
• Don’t be the guy/gal who everyone sees on
  the party/event circuit
• Attend with a purpose - network with
 • Investors
 • Recruits
 • Customers
Experience

• Domain
• Team
• Work on problems you
 • are passionate about
 • have faced
Customer Validation


• don’t work on assumptions
• talk to prospective clients/users
In Summary

• Time is money
• Don’t screw up your cap table
• Raise enough money
• Network
• Surround yourself with mentors/advisors
• Know the market you are targeting
....if you do these things you can still fail


but you reduce the probability of failure
Questions?


@shaig
sgoldman@svb.com

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