A startup is an organization designed to rapidly develop and test new ideas and products. It typically involves a team addressing a problem through the creation of a product or service, with the goal of exponential growth. However, startups face huge challenges and high chances of failure before finding product-market fit. The founders often have a problem from their own lives they want to solve. They then build a solution step-by-step while relying heavily on their team. Incubators and accelerators can provide mentoring, networking and funding resources to support startup teams.

1. What is a #Startup?

2. Exponential Growth
Revenue
/ users
Start
Up
Time

3. Exponential Growth

4. Exponential Growth

5. Non predictable

6. High chances of failure
(or repeated failures)

7. Hard

8. Fast

9. The team is everything
Matters more than the idea (?)

10. Brain over Money

11. Needs money to live before
earning revenues
• Personal funds & unemployment
insurance
• Love Money (friends, family…)
• Bootstraping
• Fundraising (seed, Business Angels,
VCs, IPO)

12. Startupers want to
change the world!

13. Not necessarily digital
or tech
Producing energy from seaweeds

14. Often, founders have
a problem
• …that impacts their life so much that
they want to solve it!
• And then they realize it could be a
business
• EYODF! (Eat Your Own Dog Food) –
be your 1st users!

15. In the form of a product / service
/ platform
And they build a solution
to the problem

16. In a startup, you don't know what
you need to build!
But they face a huge challenge

17. …will be discovered on the way!
Step by step, thanks to a lot of
work and (recommended)
methodologies
What needs to be built

18. Then it’s all about
making choices

19. And finding solutions
/ solving problems

22. Startups helpers /
Startup food

23. Incubators & Accelerators
• Selected projects / teams
• Hosting or not hosting
• Free, paid or takes equities
• Provides mentoring, events, VCs
meetups…

24. Incubators & Accelerators
Entrepreneurs

25. Startup food
Techcrunch(and their free videos here)

26. Thx!
Alexandre Jubien
Mobile Strategist
Pioneer of mobile 12 years ago!
Apps & Mobile Startups expert
Previously head of mobile at Viadeo
Previously head of mobile at Deezer
ajubien@thinkmobile.fr
Blog
linkedin.com/in/ajubien
@AlexJubien
ThinkMobile.fr
Contact: About:
ThinkMobile Newsletter (Mobile, Innovation, Startups)