1. Sitedity - Bootstrapping a Brasov Startup

2. About Me
Tiberiu Craciun
tibi@sitedity.com
@tiberiu_craciun

3. History
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2002 Started Livebooks with Michael Costuros
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2012 Started Sitedity with Dan Cotora

4. VC vs. Non VC

5. VC World
Stock
Investment Stages
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Common stock
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Friends & Family
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Preferred stock
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Angel investment
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Stock options
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Series A / Series B round
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Convertible notes
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VC funding

6. VC World
It’s about moving fast

7. Non VC World
Go Slow
“It is comparable to being blindfolded; you
move very slowly so that you have more chance
to correct errors.”
“There are two especially important times to go
slow in business, when you are getting started,
and when business is going well.”
–Honest Business

8. Non VC World
It’s about being free

9. The Obvious Choice
( !?!??! )
Real life experience
Livebooks vs. Sitedity

10. Money
Do we need them ? How much ?
“Minimizing your capital requires maximizing
other business components such as quick
response to market, attention to details and
innovation.”
–Honest Business

11. I’ve Got an Idea
Pivoting
What is it ? Why it is important ?

12. Life
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Located in Brasov
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Work vs Personal Life
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Working hours, Meetings, Family, Friends

13. Geek stuff - Building Sitedity
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Vagrant
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Use right tool for the job
Ruby, PHP, C, Go lang, JS,
Coffeescript, SASS
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Stack: Nginx
tmux
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zshrc ( oh-my-zsh )
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AWS
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Vim / Sublime
Always write a script

14. Q&A

15. Thank you