1. HOME STARTUPS PEOPLE
Grow VC
New way for funding in networked world
Jouko Ahvenainen
October 6, 2011

2. 2005 - 2011
YouTube
20 hours video every 60 secs of every day
Facebook
600 million users
eBay
Over a Million people make their living there

3. The industrial age is over!
Myspace:
Destroyed by News Corp

4. Virtual Silicon Valley

5. HOME STARTUPS PEOPLE
Grow VC: everyone funding start ups
Professional venture capital funds have
become less relevant to the financing of
innovation for the time being

6. Vision
The next Silicon Valley is not a location, it is a
platform and community on the Internet

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8. P2P and Crowd-funding
via Community Investments

9. Match-making and negotiation tools
for private investments

10. Professional
service investments

11. Now something totally new:
Anyone can start own network

12. Co-creation + networked
economics + communities of
interest can be and are,
proven & powerful platforms
and processes to stimulate
innovation and commerce

13. Velocity
Lightweight
Flexible
Adaptive
Enabling platforms

14. Open
Open platforms
Open API’s
Open legal
frameworks
Global

15. Grow VC
 Is not a platform, but a community and service
 Acts locally, but thinks globally
 #1 solution for early-phase startup funding
 Is not a venture capital company, but connects
all parties including venture capital companies
 Activates people, startups and investors
 Want to raise money or start to invest:
Go to start www.growvc.com, you can do it today
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16. CONTACT
Jouko Ahvenainen
Co-founder & Chairman
jouko@growvc.com
http://www.growvc.com/
Twitter: @growvc, @jahven
Podcast: ”Grow VC” in iTunes
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