Building Local Infrastructure for Company Growth Tobias Stone @theonlytoby www.tobiasstone.com
Sep 14, 2014
Building Local Infrastructure for Company Growth
Tobias Stone @theonlytoby
www.tobiasstone.com
= ECOSYSTEM
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Local Infrastructure for Company
Growth
ECOSYSTEM = (THIS WEEKEND)
• Accelerators
• Startups
• Angel investors
• Mentors
ALSO NEED (ideally) • Government
• Universities
• Businesses
• Journalists
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CONNECT to the REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM
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BOSNIA
Belgrade
Sofia Zagreb
SEE ICT Impact Hub
SBAN StartLabs
Eleven Launchub Betahaus
Terres Capital
Zip Incubator Netocratija Impact Hub
CONNECT to EUROPE
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SEE London
Berlin
Nordic
Lots of others
Seedcamp TechHub
StartupBootcamp TechCrunch
(and loads more) StartupBootcamp Betahaus Hub:Raum
VentureVillage SiliconAlle
StartupBootcamp SICS
StartupSauna StartupWiseguys
Arctic Startup
CONNECT to THE WORLD
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EUROPE
USA
SEE
Bosnia
China
THE NETWORK IS HERE
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SEE London
Berlin
Nordic
Lots of others
THE NETWORK IS HERE
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SEE London
Berlin
Nordic
Lots of others
WORK TOGETHER • A strong ecosystem attracts other people
– We are here this weekend because of a cluster of activity
• Investors, mentors, journalists are attracted to clusters of activity
• Support each other to make the ecosystem successful
• As an ecosystem, you need one success • One successful startup will make the whole
ecosystem more successful
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GIVE BACK
A good startup ecosystem is generous • We all need a strong ecosystem to do the thing
we do in that ecosystem • We are helping create the startups that become
our news stories, join our accelerators, become our investments
• The sponsors and partners are helping create new customers, or drive economic development
• (each startup joining an accelerator creates 2-3 jobs each time it raises money)
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SHINE TOGETHER
• One startup in Bosnia will not shine brightly enough to be seen in London or San Francisco
• Shine together to make the light brighter
• What can you do well as an ecosystem?
• Solve real problems, don’t try to copy Silicon Valley
• (they have an advantage – they are in Silicon Valley)
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ROLE MODELS
• Farmeron – Osijek – Seedcamp London – 500 Startups – Silicon Valley
• Truck Track – Belgrade – Seedcamp London
• Babywatch / Belabeat – Zagreb – StartupBootcamp
Berlin – Ycombinator
• Teddy the Guardian
– Zagreb – Seedcamp London
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ROLE MODELS
• Farmeron
• Truck Track • Babywatch / Belabeat
• Teddy the Guardian
These startups all solved simple, real, local problems They did not try to be the next Facebook Solve problems you understand
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READ THIS
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SOCIAL NETWORKS
TEAM BOSNIA
STARTUPS
MENTORS
INVESTORS
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ECOSYSTEM =
THANK YOU
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Tobias Stone
www.tobiasstone.com
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