Presentation to students at CCNY - City College of New York

1. April 26, 2012
Shai Goldman
Twitter @shaig
sgoldman@svb.com
http://www.slideshare.net/goldfinger80/ccny

2. • 30 years old
• Clients: Tech Companies, Venture Capital (VC)
Firms, Premium Wineries
• 12,000 clients
• Over 50% of all VC backed start ups
• Global: US, China, India, UK, Israel

3. I’m not a VC or CEO/Founder…
• Working with VCs and Startups for 10 years
• 9+ years in the Bay Area
• 1+ year in New York City
• Work with over 100 startups in NYC
• Helped hundreds of startups raise VC money

5. Benefits of a Startup
• Build a product that people use
• Smaller companies
• Smaller teams
• More collaboration
• You can build a company
• Work with creative people
• Work closely with the executive team
• Less “rules”
• You can change the world
• Equity / Upside if startup gets acquired / IPOs

6. Challenges with a Startup
• Less compensation
• Benefits are not as good (insurance, 401K plan,
education, etc.)
• Less stability
• Longer hours typically
• You don’t perform, you get fired QUICKLY

7. Motivation of starting a company
• Change the world
• Be your own boss (until you raise VC money)
• Make a lot of money
• Build your own product

8. VC Backed Founders - Under 22 Yrs Old
• Facebook
• Tumblr
• Greplin
• Kiip
• Codecademy
• Box
• One
• Coursekit
• MyYearBook
• MinoMonsters
• Gumroad
• InDinero
• iContact

9. VC Backed Founders with Business
Background
• Thumb
• Bonobos
• Warby Parker
• Rent The Runway
• Birchbox
• Trunk Club
• Betterworks
• Voxer
• Instagram
• Chloe & Isabel
• Foursquare
• Meebo

10. Startup Jobs Resources
• NETWORKING
• HackNY
• NYC Turing Fellows
• Uncubed
• GitHub
• StackOverflow
• LinkedIn
• Hackstars
• We Are NY Tech
• VentureLoop
• StartupHire
• AngelList
• Work At A Startup ( Y Combinator program)

11. Resources of NYC startup events
• Startup Digest
• General Assembly
• Charlie O’Donnell - http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/nycevents/
• Gary’s Guide
• Meetup
• NY Tech Meetup
• FounderDating

12. Education
• General Assembly
• SkillShare
• Codecademy (free)
• Lean Startup Machine
• Boston Startup School (free)
• Startup Weekend
• 3DS (3 Day Startup)
• Blogs (Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, Mark Suster, Ben
Horowitz)

13. Hacking
• iOS / Android
• Ruby / Rails
• Python
• Django
• JSON
• Node.js
• NoSQL / MySQL
• AWS
• Hadoop
• Heroku
• HTML5
• Javascript
• APIs

14. Co-Working
• General Assembly
• WeWork Labs
• NewWorkCity
• Projective Space
• Hive 55
• NYU-Poly Incubators

15. Accelerators
• Techstars
• DreamIt
• ER Accelerator
• BluePrint Health
• Startup Health
• Fintech Innovation Lab
• Women in Wireless
• Astia
• Brooklyn Beta
• Founder Institute
• Teens in Tech (Bay Area)
• Y Combinator (Bay Area)

16. Trends
Software
– Ecommerce
– FinTech
– AdTech
– SaaS
– Enterprise
– Big Data
– Healthcare IT
– Marketplaces
– P2P
– Gaming
– Digital Media (photos/video/music/content)
– Energy Efficiency / Monitoring

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