#500STRONG BUILDING A GLOBAL COMMUNITY @DAVEMCCLURE @500STARTUPS FEB 2014 #CMXSUMMIT
#500STRONG B U I L D I N G A G L O B A L C O M M U N I T Y
@ D A V E M C C L U R E @ 5 0 0 S T A R T U P S F E B 2 0 1 4 # C M X S U M M I T
T H I S T A L K
1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG
Dave McClureFounding 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 !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
5 0 0 S T A R T U P S : G L O B A L S E E D F U N D 7 0 0 C O M P A N I E S , 2 0 0 N O N - U S , 4 0 + C O U N T R I E S
1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG
• Kids & Family: Youth, Innocence.
• Education: A SENSE OF WONDER.
• Fun & Funny: Seuss, Bugs, Calvin & Hobbes
• Fantasy: Cartoons, Comics, Animation
• LOVE :)
1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG
• Nerd Communities (Insecurity = Strength)
• Egalitarian, Meritocratic vs. Sexist, Brutish, Antisocial
• ”The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth” = Geeks Rising.
1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG
• HiTech + Silicon Valley
• Startups + Entrepreneurship
• MONEY! FAME! (Happiness?)
• MSFT, AAPL, YHOO, AMZN, GOOG, PYPL, FB, TWTR
• Entrepreneur, Wantrepreneur, VCs, Bubbles.
T H I S T A L K
1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities + “Geeks On a Plane”
5. 500 Startups & #500STRONG
• 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!
1. Cats & Hats
2. Geeks & Developers
3. Founders & Startups
4. Branded Communities & Geeks On a Plane
500 Startups + #500STRONG
• 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
T H A N K S 4 L I S T E N I N G !
• Questions?
• Heckles?
• Smart-Ass Remarks?
• @DaveMcClure
• http://500.co