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@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Go Global,
But Be Focused
Mick @liubinskas
#globalfocus
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Commodore64
Kazaa
10 Tech Biz Started
Pollenizer
Startmate
muru-D
Helped 1,000 Startups
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
I love
Tech
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
I Love
Australia
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Tech +
Australia =
Love2
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
But…
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
I’m Frustrated
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Big country
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
China
9.5m sq kms
USA
9.8m sq kms
Australia
7.6m sq kms
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Small market
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
China
9.5m sq kms
1.3b people
USA
9.8m sq kms
320m people
Australia
7.6m sq kms
23m people
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Shanghai
24 million
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
New York
20 million
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
That sucks…
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Suck it up
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Too many pitches
with too small an
ambition
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
.com.au
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Too many
companies dying in
the trough of
sorrow
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
ENOUGH!!!
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
My Goal:
10 Companies to
Go Global
Right Now
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Why Global?
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
USA or China: Win
home market, then
maybe go global.
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
New Zealand,
Singapore, Israel:
Tiny local market,
must go global
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Australia is medium
sized…
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Global Niches
Are Huge
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
More
Early Adopters
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
If you get a happy
customer in Sydney
you are worth…
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
2% of the global
potential of that
business.
No more
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Which means…
next to nothing.
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Local proof only
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
What an
international
investor hears?
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
“I’ve got great
traction in Fiji.”
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Local investors?
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
You can’t get
Silicon Valley or
Beijing valuations
on local proof
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
I want $1m
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
I want $1m
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
I want $1.2m
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
12 weeks DD
$50k in fees = 4%
Max: 4 Companies
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
I want to give
you $5m
1% in fees
Move the needle
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
$5m for 20%
Dilute to 5%
10x return = $50m
Total exit = $1B
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Must go global
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
That doesn’t mean
be global.
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
That doesn’t mean
try and get every
customer in the
world at once.
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Go Global,
Be Focused
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
My Goal:
10 Companies to
Go Global
Right Now
AND be focused
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Conflicting?
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Suck it up!
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Start with making 1
customer in one
location happy with
one product.
Then grow.
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
‘A startups goal should
be to create
a monopoly,
but the smallest
monopoly possible’
Peter Thiel, Zero to One
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
How do you focus?
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
2 Ways
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
1. Small Customer
Segment
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Startup Science
Start Here
Possible Customer Segments
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
How did
Facebook beat
Friendster?
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Aggressive
Focus
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Nail 1 segment.
Grow.
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Investors want?
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
I have 1 segment
that loves me.
There are 1,000
other segments.
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Investors
DON’T want?
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
I have 1 customer in
1,000 segments
help me
win them all.
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
The first segment
hates me?
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Suck it up!
Move to the next
tiny segment.
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
2. Small Product
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Go Global,
Be Focused
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Recap!
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
1. Put the smallest
working product
In front of a small
segment that
needs you a lot
In a big market
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Go Global,
Be Focused?
@liubinskas
#globalfocus
Go Global,
Be Focused
Mick Liubinskas
@liubinskas
muru-d.com

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