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HOW TO SURVIVE OUTSIDE
  OF SILICON VALLEY



Michael Galpert
Silicon Valley
Everywhere Else
HOW TO SURVIVE OUTSIDE
  OF SILICON VALLEY
NOT EASY TO START
   A BUSINESS
PERIOD.
EXCLAMATION POINT!
Open Source
Real Time Semantic
  NanoBlogging
 Flux Capacitors
Nuclear Winter
We are in drastic times. Drastic times mean drastic
 measures must be taken to survive. Forget about getting
ahead, we're talking survive. Get this point into your heads.




~Mike Moritz of Sequoia
How to Survive
Outside of Silicon Valley

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Thank You                FOWA LONDON 2008
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Andy McLoughlin
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Not everything cool
comes out of Silicon Valley
<eyy>   </eyy>
How to survive
outside Silicon Valley
Silicon Roundabout circa 2008?
Is it bollocks.
How to survive prosper
 outside Silicon Valley
1)   Community
2)     Team
3)   Customers
4)     Money
So, does London
make the grade?
Community?
DrinkTank, OpenCoffee,
 YC Hackers, FB Garage, Silicon
 Stilettos, Bootlaw, TechTerrace,
   TechCrunch Talk, Geektails,
    Internet People, Geekgirls,
Swedish Beers, Minibar, Mashup*,
     Barcamp, First Tuesday,
Glasshouse, OpenSoho, Pizza on
               Rails
•     Dreamt up at Le Web 07
•      First event March 2008
•    Attracts 120+ founders and
        investors every month
•   RSVP @ www.drinktank.co.uk
Team?
London = 7 million
Within 1 hour = 20 million?

Plus, plenty of talent now
   becoming available!
Customers?
Ready-made access to
massive local markets that
Silicon Valley can’t match:

 Finance, legal, creative,
advertising, fashion, music,
 construction, government
Money?
DFJ Esprit, Accel, Atlas,
 Eden, Index, Intel Capital,
  Wellington, Balderton,
Advent, Atomico, European
Founders, Spark, Pentech,
  Amadeus, SEP, Close,
   Doughty Hanson, 4ip
What about earlier stage?
Seedcamp, TAG, Straub Ventures,
    London Business Angels
But where are the other
 British Super Angels?
Do we make the grade?




             Broadly, yes
But we want prosperity, not
      survival, right?
Take advantage
of your locality
Remember the
global market
Sales shouldn’t
be a dirty word
Don’t be scared to
   get involved
 in Silicon Valley
Relationships
Partnerships    = WIN
 Networking
How to survive prosper
 outside Silicon Valley
How To Survive Outside of Silicon Valley
How To Survive Outside of Silicon Valley

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