Leveraging Silicon Valley Ecosystem for Startup Success
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"Leveraging Silicon Valley" presentation to early stage startups at Middle East through U.S. Consulate General Jerusalem, Israel
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Leveraging Silicon Valley Ecosystem for Startup Success
- 1. Levaraging from Silicon Valley
- 2. Shashi Kumar
- 3. Ecosystem Involvement • Scouting • Due-Diligence • Proof Of Concept • Strategic Investment • Product • Mentoring • Startups • Corporations • Investors • Universities
- 4. 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 3D Printing Datacenter - Cloud - Big Data Device Solution Financial Tech Healthcare Device - BioInformatics IoT New Materials - Components Next Gen Commerce Robotics - AI - Deep Learning Semiconductor Shared Economy Telecommunication - Network Transportation - Connected Car, EV
- 6. US VC Investment in 2015 • $58.6 Billion • $11.3 Billion into 962 deals Q4 2015 • 185 Seed Stage deals for an amount of $9.02 Billion • 2,215 Early Stage deals for an amount of $19.83 Billion • Leading Sectors Software, Bio-Technology, Media • 13 % of US population is foreign born • 24 % of tech and engineering companies from 2006 to 2012 had an immigrant founder • 44 % of tech and engineering companies in silicon valley from 2006 to 2012 had an immigrant founder • $27.3 Billion investment in Silicon Valley • 1,333 Deals done in Silicon Valley out of 4,380 entire US
- 7. Valley Uniqueness • Investments • Tech Knowledge • Sharing Attitude • Educational • Built with outsiders
- 8. Entering Into Silicon Valley • Be clear on the problem you are solving • Have a credible story • Think bigger from this fragmented market • Have a smart strategy • Focus on Scaling
- 9. Knocking Busy Opportunities • Due Diligence • Visual Database • Open Innovation • Intellectual Property • Events
- 10. Intro With Founders • Problem Being Solved • Market and Business Model • Product Stage and Traction • Team Background and link to the solution • Disruption • Competition • Strategic Partners • Present Investors
- 11. Real Business Value + Market Sentiment • Revenue • Revenue growth • Gross margin • Customer acquisition metrics: MRR, Churn, Site traffic, CAC, LTV • Cash: In the bank, Burn rate, Runway • Funding history • Funding plan • Future funding • Other metrics: Time to break-even, Current accounts receivable / accounts payable
- 12. Mobility UI Investments Form Factor Design 1 •Touch Screens: Capacitive, Resistive, Infrared, Ultrasound • Touch Screen Haptics (Feedback - Sensation): Differentiated haptics (Surface Sensation), speakerless audio (Surface Sound), Microfluidics, Ultrasound, electrical-mechanical polymers, piezoelectric discs, florescence nano crystals • Speech Recognition, Language Processing, MEMS Microphone • Security Biometrics: Fingerprint Recognition, Facial Recognition, Eye Recognition, Voice Authentication, Other Biometric Security • Sensor Fusion - Middleware: Accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, CMOS image sensors, microphones, calibration - contextually aware • Gesture Recognition • Eye Tracking
- 13. Mobility UI Investments Form Factor Design 2 • Biometric Sensors: Brain, Heart ECG, Neuro EEG, Pulse Rate, BP • Affective Computing/Emotion Analytics • Image - Vision Processing: Image Capture Sensors CCD CMOS, light field cameras Plenoptic, 3D, time of flight (ToF) image sensor • Image Recognition: Flow technology with Search, recognize-track objects from many positions for AR • Vision Processing: high pixel count sensors, 3-D depth sensors, light field sensors, simultaneous localization and mapping - SLAM, DSP, GPU, VPU, Project Tango • Virtual and Augmented (Mixed) Reality: Holographic Imaging
- 14. • http://investoquotia.com/motivators/dale-carnegie/ • http://www.ekentech.com/finacial-due-dilligence-screening • http://www.audi-electronics-venture.de/aev/brand/en/services/tech- scouting.html • http://www.successfulworkplace.org/2013/10/31/leveraging-silicon-valley-from- wherever-you-are/ • http://harp-onthis.com/due-diligence-checklists-for-commercial-real-estate- transactions/ • http://www.smcs-risk.com/due-diligence/ • http://blogs.creditcards.com/2015/09/visa-mastercard-test-biometric-card- security.php • http://www.qore.com/noticias/44137/Apple-quiere-descubrir-cuales-son-tus- emociones-con-solo-ver-tu-rostro
- 15. Dale Carnegie Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all
- 16. Email : networkshashi@gmail.com Twitter @networkshashi Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/networkshashi Contact Thanks
Editor's Notes
- Revenue: Monthly / Yearly / Average revenue by channel for previous quarter and year Revenue growth : Month-over-month / Year-over-year Gross margin : Year-over-Year Current / Past / Future Customer acquisition metrics: Monthly recurring revenue (MRR), Churn rate, Site traffic, Customer acquisition cost (CAC), Customer lifetime value (LTV) Cash: In the bank, Burn rate, Runway Funding history: Amount raised to date, Timing and terms of previous financing Funding plan : amount being raised, Use of proceeds, soft-circled (amount verbally agreed to), Length of runway with current raise Future funding: Projected and timing of next raise Other metrics: Time to break-even, Current accounts receivable / accounts payable