How do you build a "Rocket" Business? In other words, how do you build a business that goes vroom, and can excite Venture Capital? A talk at IBS, Hyderabad.

1. IBS | Hyderabad
5th December, 2012
Building a “Rocket” Business
How to get “Venture” Funded.
Vijay Anand, The Startup Centre

2. We support technology Entrepreneurs
building Global Startups – leveraging
Software to solve Real World Problems –
through our Resident + Accelerator
Programme in Chennai.
www.thestartupcentre.com

3. IBS | Hyderabad
5th December, 2012
Building a “Rocket” Business
How to get “Venture” Funded.
Vijay Anand, The Startup Centre

4. We all have
Problems. The
way we solve
them is what
makes us
different.
- Unknown Author

5. What Business Are you in?

6. Venture Capital

7. Who Built
Facebook?

8. Who Built
Facebook?
How Many “Projects” Did Zuckerberg build
before Facebook?

9. Less Than 2% of
Startups get
Venture Funded.
The Fact
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10. Understanding “Cost of Capital”
Friends Small Bank Credit Venture
and Business Loan Card Capital
Family Loan
Almost 0% ~ 9% ~ 11% ~24% Min 20% -
500%
Venture Capital, is for the rare “moon-shot”
ventures, where you can promise everything, or
end up with nothing.

11. But Startups DO get Venture
Funded.
What are some of the commonalities with all of them?

12. 1. Solve Big Problems
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15. 2. Leverage Technology
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16. 3. Be Darn Good at What you do
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17. 4. Lead.
*Ahem*, that’ll mean you need a team
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18. 5. Build a Business, solving Real
Problems
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19. 6. Experience Counts
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20. 7. Build Your +1 Skillset
Build your Spikes.
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21. If you don’t
succeed at first,
try, try again.
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22. Are you really
building a
rocket?

23. Winning, must mean
something. There is no
point investing in a
company, to win and to
not get a substantial
return – or to not impact
the world.
Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures – Co-Founder at
Sun Microsystems

24. Questions?
Vijay Anand | The Startup Centre | @vijayanands

25. Vijay Anand
The Startup Centre
vijay@thestartupcentre.com
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