The document discusses the journey of starting a startup from initial unemployment and ideas to validation, funding, growth and eventual success or failure. Key stages discussed include developing an idea, writing a business plan, participating in accelerators and competitions, getting funding, hiring employees, and dealing with challenges along the way. The overall message is that starting a startup is difficult but can be enjoyable, and failures are part of the process.

1. The Startup Story:
From shit to great
HELLO
my fucking name is
Alex Barrera
Campus Party Europe
Berlin 2012
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2. Alex Barrera (@abarrera)

3. How we got here?
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4. YOU ARE FIRED!
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5. The
Unemployment
Effect
(aka Spain)
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6. I’m MBA biATch!
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7. “Here's to the
crazy ones, the
misfits, the rebels,
the troublemakers,
the round pegs in
the square holes...”
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8. Idea stage
Social local app
in real-time!
Bigger than
Facebook!
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9. The Pub idea
The Instagram
of feet!
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10. The MBA idea
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11. D E A
I
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12. OMG, OMG!
No ideas!!
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13. NDA: My precioussss
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14. First steps: conception
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15. Death by Powerpoint
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21. Oh, you have a product?
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22. How do
you
make
money?
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23. Business
plan
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24. NO one reads it
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25. Numbers, numbers, numbers!
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26. In 3 years, we’ll be dead!
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27. My BP Wishlist
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28. Startup competitions
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29. Gets you thinking
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30. Polish presentation
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31. Lame reward
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32. Startupweekends / Hackathons
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33. Find cofounders
(and share Opium)
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34. Lame idea
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36. Incubation spaces
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37. Sorry, this is not The Matrix
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38. Whaaaat? Not using
node.js?!!
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39. Mind your startup!
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40. Accelerators
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41. Great for newbies
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42. Gets you
started
&
noticed
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43. Mentors & advisors
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44. Demo day
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45. Cargo
cult
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46. I’m a mentor biatch!!
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47. SMTM-DD
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48. Show me the money - Demo Day
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49. führ mich zum Schotter!
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50. Validation
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51. What’s the
problem?
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52. Get out, talk to people!
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53. Is this the best solution?
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54. Growing
up:
Investing
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56. To FFF or not to FFF?
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57. Plants VS Zombies
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59. Seed
Round!
+5
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61. You...
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66. Oh look, another box!
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67. It’s about the noise!
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69. Cint
Grand Cru
Linas Matkasse
Ostrovok
Wibiya
Soluto
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70. Hire a
writer
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71. WTF is she?
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72. You will FAIL
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75. Yes, AGAIN!
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76. “The only constant in the world is change”
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79. Have fun, be happy!
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80. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look
back and realize they were the big things.
Alex Barrera
alex@press42.com
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