A talk at the Boston University Entrepreneurship Club title 'Intro to Internet Startups in 2013'

1. Intro to Internet
Startups in 2013
Connor McEwen

2. DAFUQ U KNO?
How computers work (almost)
Started Credport, went through
Summer@Highland and
Startupbootcamp Berlin
I read a lot of stuff on the internet

3. STARTUPS
Someone starting a company, right?

4. NO
Law firms
Doctors
Food trucks
Maids
etc...

5. YES

6. STARTUPS
An organization formed to search for a
repeatable and scalable business model
-Steve Blank

7. STARTUPS
A product, not a service
Exponential Growth

8. SCALEABLE
Less HardHard

9. INTERNETZ

10. WHICH MEANS
Cool?
Yes
Venture Fundable?
No

11. INVESTMENT
Spend some money now,
make way more later

12. INVESTMENT

13. INVESTMENT

14. FACEBOOK
1. Get everyone to use Facebook
2. Show them ads
3. Profit

15. AMAZON
1. Get people to buy stuff on Amazon
2.Take a percentage of the sales
3. Profit

16. INVESTORS
PeterThiel
$500k into
Facebook
$446M out of
Facebook
20122004
900x, scheiss

17. WHY START?

18. FALSE
You’re not going to make money
THIS IS
NOT YOU

19. SO WHY?

20. SO WHY?

21. SO WHY?

22. SO WHY?

23. SRSLY
Just start something

24. I CAN’T
I don’t know how!

25. FALSE
Start learning

26. I CAN’T
I don’t have an idea!

27. FALSE
Help someone who does

28. OUR IDEA

29. BUT...
Not important Important

30. IDEAS
Think about stuff you like
Talk to your friends
Read stuff

31. STARTING
Read Hacker News

32. STARTING
Get onTwitter

33. STARTING
Read Blogs

34. READY?

35. CUSTOMERS

36. TOOLS

37. CO-FOUNDERS
Great, but not necessary

38. CODING
Great, but not necessary

39. PRODUCT
Something people want
Definitely necessary

40. HELP
Project/hacking
meetups?
The internet

41. THANKS
Thanks for listening

42. HIT ME UP
connor.mcewen@gmail.com
@connormcewen
419-344-3697
bustartups.com