My slides from the #DigitalChallenge 2014 in Bordeaux. A talk about entrepreneurship, and startups. A few words about what I learned in 10 years building and helping startups grow whether I was a founder, an investor, an advisor or a board member.

1. Digital Challenge
Talk to wantrepreneurs@FrancoisGoube

2. Start-up Activist

3. « Top 10 Most Promising start-ups in EU »
- Guidewire Group (USA) 2009
!
« Best French entrepreneurs under 30 »
- Frenchweb 2011
« Lauréat du concours de l’innovation 2014 »
- Ministère de la recherche
« Best European Startup »
- The NEXT WEB 2014

4. Building the 1st
Big Data Solutions Provider

5. THE SMARTEST
SEARCH ENGINE
IN THE CLOUD

7. Know
Yourself

8. « Have the Courage to
follow your heart and
intuition »
Steve Jobs

9. Choose your
own path

10. First, we all
had a Blank page

11. Choose a
mission… Find a
meaning

12. Write a plan

13. keep things organized

14. Execute fast

15. Don’t do it
alone

16. Find the right
People

17. Get out of
your comfort zone

18. Get your feet
/ hands Dirty

19. Prepare for a marathon
not a sprint

20. Never Give up

21. What I learned
in 10 years

22. Do what you love
• Life is too short
• Life at work = 80% of your time
• Don’t love money

23. Never give up on
innovation, never!

24. It’s about
the culture stupid

25. If you can’t hire Super Heros
Raise them

26. Go Global...
!
!
!
...or go home fast.

27. Venture Capital
is a time Bomb
Don’t play with someone else
money if you’re confident
with your vision

28. Sell your vision
not shares

29. Build relationships
vs
Sell your products

30. All things marketing

31. Confident as a child
Take the plunge!

32. Soyez
ambitieux

35. Q&A

36. Merci
fr@ncois.eu
http://fra.ncois.eu
Accepting : free beer and bitcoins, thank you