Startup Weekend Houston Keynote July 2012

Houston, we have liftoff Bryan Guido Hassin @guido23

I am a global cleantech entrepreneur /professor of entrepreneurship at Rice • Founded/led four startups – Plug-and-play office energy savings – Web environmental compliance – Digital social business card – Mobile/wireless disaster response • Educated at Rice (computer science) and IMD (business)

Why do we even care about startups? 3

Startups drive economic growth 4

Startups keep the economy relevant 5

Startups are awesome! 6

Houston is an awesome place for awesomestartups! Loads of Low Cost of Talent Living Customers Friendly everywhere Labor Law 7

How does Startup Weekend help? 8

Large corporations marshal resources aroundpre-determined goals . . . New End Means 1 2Means Means 1 3 Starting Fixed Means End New End New End 2 3 . . . but successful entrepreneurs start with their means and imagine new possibilities Source: Effectual Entrepreneurship 9

Startups create new options by expanding theirmeans Who I Market am Feedback Experience Advice / Mentorship New MeansRelationships Whom What I Knowledge I know know Brokering Source: Effectual Entrepreneurship 10

Mentors who have been there, done that areworth $186k to first-time entrepreneurs Source: Effectual Entrepreneurship 11

Startup Weekend catalyzes ventures byaccelerating these development processes 12

My challenge to you: create more than justeconomic value Source: Startup Genome Project 13

When was Houston’s last epic startup? Swingfor the fences! 14

Startup Weekend Houston Keynote July 2012

by Bryan Hassin on Jul 30, 2012

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