slides from my talk at #CMXsummit (Feb 2014, SF)

1. #500STRONG
BUILDING A GLOBAL COMMUNITY
@DAVEMCCLURE @500STARTUPS
FEB 2014 #CMXSUMMIT

2. THIS TALK
1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG

3. Dave McClure
Founding Partner & Chief Troublemaker, 500 Startups
00’s & 10’s:
• VC: Founders Fund, Facebook fbFund, 500 Startups
• Angel: Mashery, Mint.com, SlideShare, Twilio, Wildfire, SendGrid
• Marketing: PayPal, Simply Hired, Mint.com, oDesk, O’Reilly
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80’s & 90’s:
• Entrepreneur: Aslan Computing (acq’d by Servinet/Panurgy)
• Developer: Windows / SQL DB consultant (Intel, MSFT)
• Engineer: Johns Hopkins‘88, BS Eng / Applied Math

4. 500 STARTUPS: GLOBAL SEED FUND
700 COMPANIES, 200 NON-US, 40+ COUNTRIES

5. 1000+ FOUNDERS, 200+ MENTORS

6. 1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG

7. • Kids & Family: Youth, Innocence.
• Education: A SENSE OF WONDER.
• Fun & Funny: Seuss, Bugs, Calvin & Hobbes
• Fantasy: Cartoons, Comics, Animation
• LOVE :)

8. 1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG

9. • Nerd Communities (Insecurity = Strength)
• Egalitarian, Meritocratic vs. Sexist, Brutish, Antisocial
• ”The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth” = Geeks Rising.

10. 1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG

11. • HiTech + Silicon Valley
• Startups + Entrepreneurship
• MONEY! FAME! (Happiness?)
• MSFT, AAPL, YHOO, AMZN, GOOG, PYPL, FB, TWTR
• Entrepreneur, Wantrepreneur, VCs, Bubbles.

12. THIS TALK
1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities + “Geeks On a Plane”
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG

13. • Y Combinator: Guild of Geeks
• 500 Startups: House of Hustle
• WarmGun: Designing Happiness
• UnSexy: B2B, Monetization
• MamaBear: Family Tech
• PreMoney: Disrupting Venture Capital
• BitCoinference + Commercism: SELL OUT COMRADES!

14. 1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
500 Startups + #500STRONG

15. • Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram
• #500STRONG = WE. ARE. SPARTA!
• Combine Previous Elements:
• Kids, Fun, Education
• Geeks & Developers
• Startups & Founders
• Aligned Communities
• Creative Mktg & Quirky Branding

16. THANKS 4 LISTENING!
• Questions?
• Heckles?
• Smart-Ass Remarks?
• @DaveMcClure
• http://500.co