Entrepreneurship Workshop - Co-founders and Team BuildingGrow VC Group
TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP WORKSHOP: STEP ARMENIA
Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF) in cooperation with CRDF Global. Technology Entrepreneurship workshop conducted by invited Top serial entrepreneurs form US and Europe.
Setup Presentation for startup team building panel
Startup Team: Founder’s Role, Effective Startup Team Structure and System of Incentives, The Art of Hiring and Getting Hired
Lead Presenter: Valto Loikkanen
Panelists: Ray Johnson, Yeva Hyusyan and Manuk Hergnyan.
Team Building “Toolkit”
- Vision -> Target (10+years)
- Mission
- Attitude & Culture
- Shareholder Agreement (SHA)
- Extended team members
- Advisors & Mentors
www.iirme.com/csrsummit
WELCOME TO CSR SUMMIT 2014!
This CSR Summit is a 10 year success story between us.
We have accomplished so much with 'you'; the achievements now speak for themselves. On a geographical level, our conference is now regional with conferences held in Doha and Jeddah in 2013. From an achievement perspective, the summit has fostered award winning entrepreneurial initiatives, successful partnerships, gained SROI (social ROI certification) for SME establishments and much more – all under one 'sustainable' roof!
In addition to a focused portfolio we have also gained a 'certified' status for our workshop where corporates, institutions and entrepreneurs engage in fostering alliances to enhance the business model. They focus on:
Employment creation via community engagement
Cascading knowledge via corporate and institutional partnerships
Empowering the next generation via SME and Entrepreneurship
Every year this flagship gathering of CSR professionals is preceded by PR campaigns, blogs, tweets, press releases and live media coverage!
As a CSR leader who drives your organisation's CSR agenda forward, we look forward to welcoming you to the 11th CSR Summit which will be held 18 – 21 May 2014 in Dubai!
Starting a new business is not the same as running an operating business. Over the last decade, several management practices have emerged that recognize the particular challenges new ventures face. Steve Blank’s Customer Development Model and the related “Lean” movement are increasingly popular. This session introduces and defines the key concepts of these entrepreneurial management practices and explores how startups can use them at any step of their development.
Accelerating Corporate Innovation in Customer Engagement with a Startup Persp...Green Tomato Limited
Synopsis: The presentation discusses the mutual benefits of incorporating startups as part of the corporate innovation strategy. It explores the common approach to adopt a corporate incubation program, advantages and challenges tagged along with these initiatives. The speaker will share showcases from running her own venture builder program for almost 3 years and the lessons learned from it. The sharing session will also include a startup showcase to discuss how enterprises leverage chatbots and AI in customer servicing.
Research from Harvard Business School’s Shikhar Ghosh shows that 75% of all startup enterprises fail. What causes these failures and what can entrepreneurs do to mitigate the risk? Enter “Entrepreneurial Management.”
In Session 4 of Entrepreneurship 101, we discuss the research from Startup Genome’s report, define the 5-Dimensions of success and introduce entrepreneurial management practices that startups can use to reduce the risk of failure. Startups are not just small versions of big companies – they need special tools and methodology to manage uncertainty and find their place in the market. We aim to equip attendees with the tools to mitigate risk and enjoy the journey of building a great company.
Entrepreneurship Workshop - Co-founders and Team BuildingGrow VC Group
TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP WORKSHOP: STEP ARMENIA
Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF) in cooperation with CRDF Global. Technology Entrepreneurship workshop conducted by invited Top serial entrepreneurs form US and Europe.
Setup Presentation for startup team building panel
Startup Team: Founder’s Role, Effective Startup Team Structure and System of Incentives, The Art of Hiring and Getting Hired
Lead Presenter: Valto Loikkanen
Panelists: Ray Johnson, Yeva Hyusyan and Manuk Hergnyan.
Team Building “Toolkit”
- Vision -> Target (10+years)
- Mission
- Attitude & Culture
- Shareholder Agreement (SHA)
- Extended team members
- Advisors & Mentors
www.iirme.com/csrsummit
WELCOME TO CSR SUMMIT 2014!
This CSR Summit is a 10 year success story between us.
We have accomplished so much with 'you'; the achievements now speak for themselves. On a geographical level, our conference is now regional with conferences held in Doha and Jeddah in 2013. From an achievement perspective, the summit has fostered award winning entrepreneurial initiatives, successful partnerships, gained SROI (social ROI certification) for SME establishments and much more – all under one 'sustainable' roof!
In addition to a focused portfolio we have also gained a 'certified' status for our workshop where corporates, institutions and entrepreneurs engage in fostering alliances to enhance the business model. They focus on:
Employment creation via community engagement
Cascading knowledge via corporate and institutional partnerships
Empowering the next generation via SME and Entrepreneurship
Every year this flagship gathering of CSR professionals is preceded by PR campaigns, blogs, tweets, press releases and live media coverage!
As a CSR leader who drives your organisation's CSR agenda forward, we look forward to welcoming you to the 11th CSR Summit which will be held 18 – 21 May 2014 in Dubai!
Starting a new business is not the same as running an operating business. Over the last decade, several management practices have emerged that recognize the particular challenges new ventures face. Steve Blank’s Customer Development Model and the related “Lean” movement are increasingly popular. This session introduces and defines the key concepts of these entrepreneurial management practices and explores how startups can use them at any step of their development.
Accelerating Corporate Innovation in Customer Engagement with a Startup Persp...Green Tomato Limited
Synopsis: The presentation discusses the mutual benefits of incorporating startups as part of the corporate innovation strategy. It explores the common approach to adopt a corporate incubation program, advantages and challenges tagged along with these initiatives. The speaker will share showcases from running her own venture builder program for almost 3 years and the lessons learned from it. The sharing session will also include a startup showcase to discuss how enterprises leverage chatbots and AI in customer servicing.
Research from Harvard Business School’s Shikhar Ghosh shows that 75% of all startup enterprises fail. What causes these failures and what can entrepreneurs do to mitigate the risk? Enter “Entrepreneurial Management.”
In Session 4 of Entrepreneurship 101, we discuss the research from Startup Genome’s report, define the 5-Dimensions of success and introduce entrepreneurial management practices that startups can use to reduce the risk of failure. Startups are not just small versions of big companies – they need special tools and methodology to manage uncertainty and find their place in the market. We aim to equip attendees with the tools to mitigate risk and enjoy the journey of building a great company.
The Startup Studio Playbook is the World's first professional book dedicated to startup studios, a.k.a. venture builders, startup factories. It is a book for entrepreneurs and innovators. Read about exciting case studies and best practices, discover how the startup studio model enables you to build startups easier
You will benefit from this book if you are interested in entrepreneurship or innovation. Startup studios are on the rise, quickly becoming the new trend in building startups. If done right, model enables you to build startups in a less risky and more cost-efficient way. Discover how this model can benefit you.
The main goal of the Startup Studio Playbook is to make startup studios more transparent, and make it easier to create and grow new studios. In this book you will learn about:
- Who are the founders behind the most exciting studios;
- How are are these organizations funded;
- Where do studios take the idea for their startups;
- How startup studio organize their team and operations;
- What are the spin-off and exit strategies;
- What are the pros and cons of the model;
- How different startup studios operate across the Globe;
- How corporations can leverage the benefits of the model;
- How you can build your own startup studio?
Find out more:
http://www.startupstudioplaybook.com/
Get the book. Use the offer code 'earlybird' to get a discount.
https://gumroad.com/l/startupstudioplaybook
Playbook on how to build a B2B sales machine aka how to build a "$100 mln business". Delivered this talk with a few organizations including R3 Corda Seed+Series-A Startups, B Work Bali startup community.
A few topics covered included:
⮞ Christoph Janz’ / Boris Wertz animal framework on how your hunting strategies differ for customers at different ARPA level
⮞ the anatomy of #growth engines
⮞ Deep dive into the #B2B outbound playbook for seed level #startups with limited budgets.
Entrepreneurship Training and Ideas Development Venture Advisors
Entrepreneurship is driver of future. Entrepreneurship is engine of growth and development. In this five days workshop we help young entrepreneurs to build their ideas. This working will build Business Plan and Feasibility Report. This will give young entrepreneurs Confidence on their own.
Slash | 500Startups mentoring - product expansion and localization in Southea...Slash
How to expand and customize your product across Southeast Asia (SEA)?
This 2h workshop was delivered for a founder audience of global pre-Series A and Series-A startups (invested by 500 Startups, the VC), expanding into SEA.
The frameworks, mental models, tools and techniques described can be used to generally refresh your value proposition and product for your core markets.
Delivered 12 Feb 2020 in Singapore by Andries De Vos, CEO of Slash.
SIX QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF BEFORE LAUNCHING YOUR STARTUP.Ajay Batra
Launching a Startup is an empowering and uplifting experience. But it can also be a daunting task to juggle so many tasks and solve innumerable challenges daily.
Are you ready for it? Do you know that to do?
Use the 5-level roadmap (Startup Maturity Model) to know where you are, and to plan your next steps towards the launch of your high-performing startup.
Red Garage operates as a venture builder/
start-up studio partnering with The Coca-Cola
Company. Ourindependence is key to moving
with speed, keeping lean and building value.
Red Garage conducts the early stage problem
exploration, concept development, and business
model validation.
In this presentation, I will discuss:
1. Why innovation inside of an existing
corporation is so difficult and how companies
can employ the tools and processes
successful start-ups use to drive innovation
2. How corporates can innovate leveraging
their assets and startup thinking to exploit new
growth areas
3. Outlining the Red Garage Ventures concept
and what to consider when setting up a
corporate venture fund
4. Ensuring successful commercialization and
acceleration of a startup by leveraging the
“mother ship” assets, relationships and being a
key R&D customer
Slash | The Venture Builder Playbook (5 may2021)Slash
Talk delivered to tech and corporate community on the Venture Builder Playbook.
We covered:
1) Why Venture Building is the new "growth" strategy for corporates worldwide
2) Flavors of Venture Building
3) The Venture Builder Playbook (at a high level)
Venture & Angel Investments for Startups - 2021Crowd Product
The special event series will cover the following:
Raising First Cheque Seed Funding from VC
Why Lead Investor is Important ? How to Find One ?
20 Things Not To Do By A Startup Founder
Learn how AMD used IBM learning content management tools to develop a quicker, more cost-effective way to help educate, arm and support its global sales team.
Entrepreneurship Workshop Yerevan -Building Value and Startup FundingGrow VC Group
TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP WORKSHOP: STEP ARMENIA
Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF) in cooperation with CRDF Global. Technology Entrepreneurship workshop conducted by invited Top serial entrepreneurs form US and Europe.
Setup Presentation for early stages funding panel
Securing Early-Stage Funding: Equity Financing (Angel and VC investments), Crowdfunding, Non-equity Funding (self-funding, grants, bank financing, etc.)
Lead Presenter: Valto Loikkanen
Panelists: Ray Johnson, Yeva Hyusyan and Manuk Hergnyan
The Startup Studio Playbook is the World's first professional book dedicated to startup studios, a.k.a. venture builders, startup factories. It is a book for entrepreneurs and innovators. Read about exciting case studies and best practices, discover how the startup studio model enables you to build startups easier
You will benefit from this book if you are interested in entrepreneurship or innovation. Startup studios are on the rise, quickly becoming the new trend in building startups. If done right, model enables you to build startups in a less risky and more cost-efficient way. Discover how this model can benefit you.
The main goal of the Startup Studio Playbook is to make startup studios more transparent, and make it easier to create and grow new studios. In this book you will learn about:
- Who are the founders behind the most exciting studios;
- How are are these organizations funded;
- Where do studios take the idea for their startups;
- How startup studio organize their team and operations;
- What are the spin-off and exit strategies;
- What are the pros and cons of the model;
- How different startup studios operate across the Globe;
- How corporations can leverage the benefits of the model;
- How you can build your own startup studio?
Find out more:
http://www.startupstudioplaybook.com/
Get the book. Use the offer code 'earlybird' to get a discount.
https://gumroad.com/l/startupstudioplaybook
Playbook on how to build a B2B sales machine aka how to build a "$100 mln business". Delivered this talk with a few organizations including R3 Corda Seed+Series-A Startups, B Work Bali startup community.
A few topics covered included:
⮞ Christoph Janz’ / Boris Wertz animal framework on how your hunting strategies differ for customers at different ARPA level
⮞ the anatomy of #growth engines
⮞ Deep dive into the #B2B outbound playbook for seed level #startups with limited budgets.
Entrepreneurship Training and Ideas Development Venture Advisors
Entrepreneurship is driver of future. Entrepreneurship is engine of growth and development. In this five days workshop we help young entrepreneurs to build their ideas. This working will build Business Plan and Feasibility Report. This will give young entrepreneurs Confidence on their own.
Slash | 500Startups mentoring - product expansion and localization in Southea...Slash
How to expand and customize your product across Southeast Asia (SEA)?
This 2h workshop was delivered for a founder audience of global pre-Series A and Series-A startups (invested by 500 Startups, the VC), expanding into SEA.
The frameworks, mental models, tools and techniques described can be used to generally refresh your value proposition and product for your core markets.
Delivered 12 Feb 2020 in Singapore by Andries De Vos, CEO of Slash.
SIX QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF BEFORE LAUNCHING YOUR STARTUP.Ajay Batra
Launching a Startup is an empowering and uplifting experience. But it can also be a daunting task to juggle so many tasks and solve innumerable challenges daily.
Are you ready for it? Do you know that to do?
Use the 5-level roadmap (Startup Maturity Model) to know where you are, and to plan your next steps towards the launch of your high-performing startup.
Red Garage operates as a venture builder/
start-up studio partnering with The Coca-Cola
Company. Ourindependence is key to moving
with speed, keeping lean and building value.
Red Garage conducts the early stage problem
exploration, concept development, and business
model validation.
In this presentation, I will discuss:
1. Why innovation inside of an existing
corporation is so difficult and how companies
can employ the tools and processes
successful start-ups use to drive innovation
2. How corporates can innovate leveraging
their assets and startup thinking to exploit new
growth areas
3. Outlining the Red Garage Ventures concept
and what to consider when setting up a
corporate venture fund
4. Ensuring successful commercialization and
acceleration of a startup by leveraging the
“mother ship” assets, relationships and being a
key R&D customer
Slash | The Venture Builder Playbook (5 may2021)Slash
Talk delivered to tech and corporate community on the Venture Builder Playbook.
We covered:
1) Why Venture Building is the new "growth" strategy for corporates worldwide
2) Flavors of Venture Building
3) The Venture Builder Playbook (at a high level)
Venture & Angel Investments for Startups - 2021Crowd Product
The special event series will cover the following:
Raising First Cheque Seed Funding from VC
Why Lead Investor is Important ? How to Find One ?
20 Things Not To Do By A Startup Founder
Learn how AMD used IBM learning content management tools to develop a quicker, more cost-effective way to help educate, arm and support its global sales team.
Entrepreneurship Workshop Yerevan -Building Value and Startup FundingGrow VC Group
TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP WORKSHOP: STEP ARMENIA
Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF) in cooperation with CRDF Global. Technology Entrepreneurship workshop conducted by invited Top serial entrepreneurs form US and Europe.
Setup Presentation for early stages funding panel
Securing Early-Stage Funding: Equity Financing (Angel and VC investments), Crowdfunding, Non-equity Funding (self-funding, grants, bank financing, etc.)
Lead Presenter: Valto Loikkanen
Panelists: Ray Johnson, Yeva Hyusyan and Manuk Hergnyan
The Digital Side Of Startup Ecosystem Development GEC 2018 istanbulGrow VC Group
The digital economy requires economic development and digital development to be understood and be operated closely together for ecosystem orchestration.
In this session, we explore how to unbundle and connect application silos, to build connectivity between applications to make valuable data to flow within and between ecosystems. What practical steps are required and who should be involved?
We explore learning from other industries to help imagine use and concepts of digital in ecosystem development and orchestration context and share our own key learnings of digital from several ecosystems around the world.
TGPowerhouse (TGPw) is committed to the sustainable growth in the value of your company. We focus on medium-sized companies, mostly.
We are unlike any traditional consultancy: we focus on implementation.
We help you to reflect on the challenges of your business, your needs and what you want to accomplish.
We work to differentiate your business and enable your company to sustain a competitive position, visible on its results.
We partner with you in the implementation, including the internationalization of your business or the attraction of Strategic Partner. We manage the business, when necessary.
If you are considering or planning to initiate business in Brazil, TGPowerhouse is your “Business GPS”.
We ensure that you have a " Smart Landing " in Brazil.
TGPowerhouse (TGPw) is committed to the sustainable growth in the value of your company. We focus on medium-sized companies, mostly.
We are unlike any traditional consultancy: we focus on implementation.
We help you to reflect on the challenges of your business, your needs and what you want to accomplish.
We work to differentiate your business and enable your company to sustain a competitive position, visible on its results.
We partner with you in the implementation, including the internationalization of your business or the attraction of Strategic Partner. We manage the business, when necessary.
If you are considering or planning to initiate business in Brazil, TGPowerhouse is your “Business GPS”.
We ensure that you have a " Smart Landing " in Brazil.
Uitleg over hoe je een ondernemerspln kunt maken. Uitleg in drie niveau's van detail: eerst op hoofd-termen, dan met korte uitleg en video's en vervolgens met zeer veel details (in Engelse taal). De details zijn voorbeelden en zijn naar eigen inzicht te benoemen of niet, dan wel zelf elementen toe te voegen.
Smart City Expo 2014: How to generate more innovation and improve return on i...Grow VC Group
How to generate more innovation and improve return on investment from your innovation ecosystem.
Global downturn raised expectations for innovation services that are not producing enough results. We explore the reasons and solutions to overcome these challenges. Solutions that can radically improve transparency, efficiency and measurability of the innovation funnel, to produce economic growth.
Related recorded short version video: https://youtu.be/kF6kjq374RQ?t=4m15s
Investors historically sit through pitches and evaluate early stage startups on three primary metrics: 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling presentations, and 3) a strong team. Steve Blank, the Godfather of the Lean Startup movement said in his Customer Development Manifesto: “There’s no formal way for an investor to assess project maturity or quantify risks. Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress.”
What has been missing is a common language to communicate objectives and data that investors and entrepreneurs can use to communicate startup readiness.
Fortunately, the principles developed in the Lean Startup movement can be utilized to help entrepreneurs assess their Investor Readiness Level in a way that allows them to demonstrate “evidence” of their readiness. In this session, Max Green and Heath Naquin, both of the IC2 Institute, will share this new method for entrepreneurs to gauge their own investor readiness using the principles of Steve Blank's Investment Readiness Level and LeanLaunchpad.
Entrepreneurs attending this session will learn a valuable approach helping their start-up team prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors “evidence” that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model.
Heath Naquin serves as Executive Director for the SW I-Corps Node at The University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as the Managing Director for a multi-university NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) the Center for Next Generation Photovoltaics. Heath was a founding member of three different start-up business initiatives across sectors. He has helped companies raise more than $30 Million in funding from private and government sources.
Heath actively works on international commercialization initiatives and efforts focusing on industry collaboration, new project development and deployment along with building linkages between industry, government, academia and the venture capital community. Heath has worked in more than 20 countries on international commercialization and entrepreneurship initiatives in countries such as Colombia, Jordan, Iraq, Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Armenia, and Turkey. Heath has extensive experience with the NSF, EPA and NIH SBIR programs as an active commercial reviewer for many years. Heath also currently serves as Faculty for the Concordia University Executive MBA program.
WeWork provides small businesses, startups, and freelancers with beautiful workspace, inspiring community, and meaningful services. With weekly events, personalized support, flexibility, and access to thousands of like-minded entrepreneurs around the world - WeWork is the perfect place to grow your business in 2015.
The WeWork Congress location sits in the heart of downtown Austin at 6th St. and Congress Ave. To learn more about joining the community, email joinus@wework.com or call 855.593.9675.
Presentation from the 8th TestDome Product Talk, held Nov 28th 2023:
https://youtu.be/CZ8nZymQLW4
*Description:*
Mario, cofounder of TestDome, talks about his views and experience and try to show benefits of bootstrapping route for the founders that is overlooked in media.
Why this topic? Media loves fairy tales (rags to riches, bold, brave bets, winning against all odds). Investors love founders buying into those stories (founders are scarcest input to their business model). But, we love entrepreneurial people (especially young) and want the best for them 🙂
Startup Guide - Everything You Need To Know To Start & GrowAamir Qutub
Since the turn of the century, small startup ideas—Uber, Twitter, Instagram, Airbnb, to name a few—have been scaled into technology giants. Could you imagine a day without scrolling social media? Or jumping in an Uber to the airport? Startups have disrupted industries by focusing on cutting-edge technology, the sharing economy, and social media. Startups also have the potential to influence and transform industries of the future. So, leap into the start-up world with fresh ideas and a desire to change the world.
Learn more from the video on my Youtube Page:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmVlN3xei4w&t=80s
5 Predictions for Finance, FinTech and Blockchain MarketGrow VC Group
Presentation about the status and future of finance market and distributed finance services at TEN Capital event in Austin, TX. We can learn from the history and other industries, and see how the finance industry can handle its disruption.
Blockchain and tokenization are coming to all asset classes and instrumentsGrow VC Group
Crypto finance and blockchain are in very early phase, ICOs are only the first wave. These models come to main stream, when we have more asset classes and instruments that are relevant for institutional investors and ordinary people. The history has show that technology disruption winners are typically new companies, it is hard for incumbents to adapt.
FinTech presentation at Banking and Payment System conferenceGrow VC Group
Presentation about fintech ecosystem for new finance services, especially integrated distributed services, and how they are changing the whole finance sector and banking services.
Prifina's finance data service demo at a launch event in New York in May 2018. How people can get control back to their data and start to utilize it for their own purposes.
Economic and social activity facilitated by digital platforms that are typically online matchmakers or technology frameworks. Beyond examples like Amazon, Airbnb, Uber or Baidu, we dive into innovation & startup platforms, which provides a common technology framework upon which others can build, such as the many independent developers.
Topics:
- A fundamental change in business logic
- Basics of platform economy
- Value of data
- Connecting themes
- Platform economy business models
- Case: Startup Commons
- Designing platform economy business models
Grow VC Group presentation at Crypto Funding Summit in Los AngelesGrow VC Group
Presentation about crypto funding ecosystem and data, including basics about tokenization, tokenomics, distributed finance models and blockchain. The presentation describes distributed finance market, where tokenization can be used to all assets, and where data and AI are coming key tools.
Grow VC Group keynote about FinTech and blockchain ecosystems at VanFUNDING 2017Grow VC Group
Grow VC Group keynote about FinTech and blockchain ecosystems at VanFUNDING 2017. The presentation focuses especially to explain needs and opportunities to develop a well working distributed finance ecosystem, not only individual services.
AI and Data in Fintech: Hong Kong Fintech Week keynoteGrow VC Group
Key note presentation for Hong Kong Fintech Week: how to use data, analytics and AI in fintech, with cases about data oriented SME lending and consumer finance data management.
Fintech 2017 Vision and Insight - MIT Enterprise Forum PolandGrow VC Group
Presentation for the fintech audience at MIT Enterprise Forum in Warsaw. The presentation illustrated three key areas of fintech: 1) Distributed Finance, 2) Open API Ecosystems, 3) Software Bankers.
Fintech 2017 vision and insight - presentation at the Hanken School of EconomicsGrow VC Group
Fintech 2017 vision and insight - presentation at the Hanken School of Economics: three main themes: 1) distributed finance, 2) open API ecosystem, 3) software bankers.
How to get banking and fintech work together, including new technology and finance instruments. The presentation introduces open API ecosystem for finance, and solutions to create new instruments, ways to handle customer interface and raise capital.
Fintech o2o digital hybrid finance presentation by Grow VC GroupGrow VC Group
Digital hybrid finance presentation for fintech online-to-offline conference in Hong Kong - how the traditional finance can cooperate with and utilize fintech and digital finance.
Summarizes the activities and businesses of Grow VC Group in fintech and digital finance space. Grow VC Group includes 10 companies that create new finance solutions.
US-EU Meeting Alternative Finance PresentationGrow VC Group
Summary about alternative finance market in the US and EU, including API economy model, new finance instruments and cooperation of new and old finance models.
Grow VC Group digital finance insight and visionGrow VC Group
Digital Finance ecosystem is emerging. It is changing all finance services. Resource sharing, partner networks and APIs have very important role in the ecosystem. Grow VC Group companies offer solutions and services to enable digital finance.
Crowd Valley Digital Investing and Lending Platform Report - Q2 2015Grow VC Group
The present report is based on surveying a randomly-selected sample of 100 individuals and companies out of the ones that have expressed an interest in entering this market during the second quarter of 2015. Therefore, the analysis provides probably the first data-driven insights on how the international digital investment sector is developing in Q2 2015.
The demand for digital investing platforms is still mainly based in the USA and it is above all directed at equity investment models for private companies. Nevertheless, during this quarter Crowd Valley observed an increase in the demand for lending platforms. Other regions including Europe also play a major role in the digital investing sector, representing a significant proportion of the total demand for these kinds of services.
Deal Index - aggregating digital investing market dataGrow VC Group
DealIndex: Aggregating Digital Investing Markets. Global Crowdfunding Aggregator. Real-time data and deals on private companies raising
capital, backed by analytics, insights and research.
Digital finance, crowdfunding and creative content businessGrow VC Group
Introduction to crowdfunding and digital finance models. How does the ecosystem look? How to use crowdfunding? Roles and services? How to make a successful campaign? Legal requirements and restrictions?
Podim: Digital Finance Ecosystem and SamplesGrow VC Group
PODIM 2015 Conference about startup and corporate cooperation. Grow VC Group presentation about digital finance ecosystem, including samples of the companies, e.g. investing and lending platforms, data dashboards, startup development tools and consulting services.
Business and Anarchy Event: Digital Finance RevolutionGrow VC Group
Business always need new solutions. Digital finance and fintech are to challenge old finance services. It offer better efficiency, transparency and more equal opportunities. It is also linked to the revolution of social networks and web 2.0 services. People can take power and make their decisions, small players can challenge the big organizations.
How to Build a Diversified Investment Portfolio.pdfTrims Creators
Building a diversified investment portfolio is a fundamental strategy to manage risk and optimize returns. For both novice and experienced investors, diversification offers a pathway to a more stable and resilient financial future. Here’s an in-depth guide on how to create and maintain a well-diversified investment portfolio.
Textile Chemical Brochure - Tradeasia (1).pdfjeffmilton96
Explore Tradeasia’s brochure for eco-friendly textile chemicals. Enhance your textile production with high-quality, sustainable solutions for superior fabric quality.
Salma Karina Hayat is Conscious Digital Transformation Leader at Kudos | Empowering SMEs via CRM & Digital Automation | Award-Winning Entrepreneur & Philanthropist | Education & Homelessness Advocate
What You're Going to Learn
- How These 4 Leaks Force You To Work Longer And Harder in order to grow your income… improve just one of these and the impact could be life changing.
- How to SHUT DOWN the revolving door of Income Stagnation… you know, where new sales come into your magazine while at the same time existing sponsors exit.
- How to transform your magazine business by fixing the 4 “DON’Ts”...
#1 LEADS Don’t Book
#2 PROSPECTS Don’t Show
#3 PROSPECTS Don’t Buy
#4 CLIENTS Don’t Stay
- How to identify which leak to fix first so you get the biggest bang for your income.
- Get actionable strategies you can use right away to improve your bookings, sales and retention.
Best Crypto Marketing Ideas to Lead Your Project to SuccessIntelisync
In this comprehensive slideshow presentation, we delve into the intricacies of crypto marketing, offering invaluable insights and strategies to propel your project to success in the dynamic cryptocurrency landscape. From understanding market trends to building a robust brand identity, engaging with influencers, and analyzing performance metrics, we cover all aspects essential for effective marketing in the crypto space.
Also Intelisync, our cutting-edge service designed to streamline and optimize your marketing efforts, leveraging data-driven insights and innovative strategies to drive growth and visibility for your project.
With a data-driven approach, transparent communication, and a commitment to excellence, InteliSync is your trusted partner for driving meaningful impact in the fast-paced world of Web3. Contact us today to learn more and embark on a journey to crypto marketing mastery!
Ready to elevate your Web3 project to new heights? Contact InteliSync now and unleash the full potential of your crypto venture!
When listening about building new Ventures, Marketplaces ideas are something very frequent. On this session we will discuss reasons why you should stay away from it :P , by sharing real stories and misconceptions around them. If you still insist to go for it however, you will at least get an idea of the important and critical strategies to optimize for success like Product, Business Development & Marketing, Operations :)
Reflect Festival Limassol May 2024.
Michael Economou is an Entrepreneur, with Business & Technology foundations and a passion for Innovation. He is working with his team to launch a new venture – Exyde, an AI powered booking platform for Activities & Experiences, aspiring to revolutionize the way we travel and experience the world. Michael has extensive entrepreneurial experience as the co-founder of Ideas2life, AtYourService as well as Foody, an online delivery platform and one of the most prominent ventures in Cyprus’ digital landscape, acquired by Delivery Hero group in 2019. This journey & experience marks a vast expertise in building and scaling marketplaces, enhancing everyday life through technology and making meaningful impact on local communities, which is what Michael and his team are pursuing doing once more with Exyde www.goExyde.com
Explore Sarasota Collection's exquisite and long-lasting dining table sets and chairs in Sarasota. Elevate your dining experience with our high-quality collection!
3. My Evolution As an Entrepreneur
● Entrepreneur
● International entrepreneur
● International serial entrepreneur
● International portfolio entrepreneur
4. As an Entrepreneur
● 20 years as international Serial Entrepreneur (US, EU, Asia) &
Portfolio Entrepreneur, with personal hard earned success &
failures
● 17 years experience in developing web based tools for various
business processes
● 6 Years of developing equity crowdfunding and other digital
investment market solutions globally
● 5 years for Startup Ecosystem development combined with online
support tools, platforms & metrics
● For two years, being part of three EC Horizon 2020 Groups:
○ Access to Risk Finance,
○ Spreading Excellence & Widening participation
○ International Cooperation
5. As a Business Advisor
● 10 years of startup mentoring
○ with 2000+ one to one mentoring sessions and workshops
○ with 1000+ entrepreneurs and hundreds of startups around the
world at various development stages and industries
● In parallel 10 years developing Startup Support services, with
entrepreneurial mind and lean methodology (fast ideation,
implement and measure cycle)
● 5 years of “living lab” development for Startup Ecosystem in
Finland with City of Helsinki
6. About Grow VC Group
"The global pioneer of securities crowdfunding, peer
to peer marketplaces and new investment models."
7. Grow Advisors provide consulting and knowledge resources for
Digital Investing Marketplace and Startup Ecosystem
development
Ecosystem Back-end infrastructure and Support to manage,
measure & peer benchmark Startup ecosystems
Deal Index offers Visibility to Professional & International
Investors and real time investment Market Data
Digital Investment Marketplace Back-end solutions and
Development
Other Grow VC Group Companies & Services For Economic
Development
8. Local Investors &
Equity Crowdfunding
International Growth
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Local Startup Ecosystem
International Investors &
Multinational Corporations
Talent, Startups &
Support Services
Grow Advisors provide consulting and
knowledge resources for Digital
Investing Marketplace and Startup
Ecosystem development.
Ecosystem Back-end infrastructure
and Support to manage, measure & peer
benchmark your ecosystem.
Deal Index offers Visibility to
Professional & International Investors
and real time investment Market Data.
Digital Investment Marketplace Back-
end solutions and Development
$$$ $$ $$
Talent & Investments
Growing Startups
$$$
The leading global pioneer of digital investment
market solutions for private securities.
Other Grow VC Group Companies &
Services For Economic Development
Peer Benchmarking
10. A B
C D
High Growth Ambition and
very scalable business model
Low Growth Ambition and/or
Non Scalable business
Market
validated
business
model
Unvalidated
business model
"a kiosk"
"new startup"
“New Startup”
15. Build / Release Validate / Iterate
Ideation
Scalable product or
service idea for a big
enough target
market. Some initial
business models for
how it would make
money. One person
or only a vague team;
no confirmed
commitment or no
right balance of skills
in the team structure
yet.
Concepting
Clear and meaningful
target with direction for at
least 3 years with
milestones how to get
there, -> 3, 6, 12, 24, 36
months… Team of two or
three core founding
partners with balanced
ownership. Can also
already have some
extended team with lighter
commitment (stock options
and or cash
compensation)
Commitment
Committed and balanced
founding team. Able to
develop the product or
service (Minimum Viable
Product) without dependency
of uncommitted external
resources, or already an initial
product or service in place.
Existing signed shareholder
agreement between founders,
with milestones, committed
time and money use, for at
least 2+ years with vesting.
Validation
Can demonstrate some
user growth and or
revenue (initial traction).
Continue to attract
additional resources
(money or sweat equity)
for equity or future
revenue. Looking for clear
market validation (Product
Market Fit), to move into
scaling.
Scaling
Showing a clear,
growing and measurable
user and or market
traction in a big or
rapidly growing target
market. Can and wants
to scale fast. May have
attracted significant
funding.
Establishing
Achieved great growth, that
can expected to continue.
No longer needs to
struggle to get resources
and can acquire those
easily. Continues to grow
and often wants to
culturally continue
behaving like a "startup" for
as long as possible.
Founders exit or continue
business as usual.
Minimum Viable Product
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Vision > Target > Mission Growth
Idea / Team Fit Product / Market Fit Business Model / Market Fit
STARTUP DEVELOPMENT PHASES
● Business Model Canvas
● Co-founder Team Building
Scale / Expand
-2 -1 30 21
21. ● Without a clear target you can not plan or make a
strategy to get there
● With target you can get focus
● Good way to define a target is to write a vision that is
both clear and descriptive enough, but also flexible
enough to last time
● Your strategy & plan to get there is your mission
● Clearly defined Vision, mission and focus will help you
evaluate new opportunities, against if they take you
closer or further from the target and act based on that
Why Target Matters?
22. Target
● Without a target you can not start moving forward as
you can not know if the direction is right
● When you have set the target you can start planning the
journey to get there
● Just moving forward is not progress
24. General Observations Of Targets
● Set too low ambition
● Too short term
● Does not take to account the competition factor over
time
● Does not take to account enough external factors
○ markets changes
○ megatrends
○ financial turmoil
● Often nothing in between
● Wrong market timing (too early / late)
25. Why set a high ambition target
● Whatever target you set it will guide you
● Modest target may feel easier to achieve but you rarely
would archive beyond your target
● Bigger target will force you to design and test more
scalable tools and models of working
● And even if you don't reach it, it's still often more than
with modes target
○ "Aim for the stars, land on the moon"
● Its very different plan to handle 10000 customers
around the world than 100 at your city
31. How to attack a high ambition target?
● Break it down it to milestones
● Design it backwards
● Design everything for scalability
● Its different to be able to handle 10000
customers around the world than 100 at your
city
37. But it actually becomes to this
Start
Target
1
2
3 4
5
6
7
8
If the milestones are reached the ambition grows and new target
and milestones are set based on the pace, learnings market
development etc.
39. Attitude
● If you have no right "get it done" attitude, no
skills will matter
● But right skills with the right attitude is what
you need
40. Company Culture
● Fairness, transparency, honesty & communication
● Team is key. It's more important than the idea you start
with
● Good team can make success even from a bad idea as
they learn, adapt and can find the right idea
● Bad team can't get even a good idea to work (unless
being lucky)
● Those that do more are more lucky
○ volume always leads to more opportunities and faster
learning
41. Building the best Team
● Look people that have other/better skills than you (to learn)
● Look for type A people
● Type A people are often motivated more by the vision,
journey & challenge than the money alone
● Type A people look for other A people they want to work with
● Type B people have commitment issues and are less
motivated by challenges and more about money
● Type B people look for type C people so they can look better
than they are
42. Typical roles in a startup
● Core operative Co-founders (min.2 max. 3)
● Other founding team members/partners
● Other team & employees
● Advisors
● Mentors
● Board Members
● Investors
43. About titles in a startup
● Titles are needed for terminology and
external communications
● Inside the founding team those should be
considered as responsibility roles not
hierarchy
● SHA is what matters
44. Operative & Strategy balance
● Separate operative and strategy people/roles (hats)
● and separate strategy and operative focus
○ operative focus = focus on action and reaching the next
milestone
○ strategy = to stop, step back and re-evaluate the target,
milestones progress & learnings. Adjust as needed
○ time for strategy review?
■ At the start
■ quarterly in the early days
■ once or twice per year on the mid stages depending on pace
■ High growth stage -> monthly
45. SHA (1st founders, later investors)
● Ownership structures
● Intellectual property rights (IPR) rules
● Commitments & Vesting
● Tasks & Roles of partners
● Competition clauses, Confidentiality
● Partner/shareholder entry & exit situations
● Buy Back Option in normal Partner Exit Situation
● Rules Governing Share Disposal
● Market Value Determination
● Communication among Partners to the Agreement
● Disputes and Governing Law