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How to hack
     the valley
- one cup of coffee
    at the time!
How to hack
  the valley world
- one cup of coffee
    at the time!
Get out of the building!
Credentials?
Professional Connector!
Scalability
 [technology]
How to go from
1 to one 1000 units

       [any units]
What is your metric?

         Sales?
       Investors?
       Partners?
Assignment!
  [1 minute]
[1 minute]
Identify one big company that must
        sell your product
       in order to increase
         their revenue!
[1 minute]
Identify one or more complementary
     companies that you can
    merge or get acquired by!
[1 minute]
Identify one or more complementary
     companies that you can
    merge or get acquired by!
[1 minute]
Identify International partners that have
         access to large markets
[1 minute]
Change (pivot) your business-model to
   dramatically increase revenue
Do it again!
   [not now...]
Identify
influencers
Your turn!
http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com/network
Drink coffee :)
Don’t talk about your success
- talk about your problem/next step!
Ask them who do they know
  - that you should know!
Ask for an introduction!
[repeat]
Tools!
CrunchBase
AngelList
?
Connect & Follow me!
     linkedin.com/sorenrt
       twitter.com/sorenrt

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