Is Your Idea the Next Facebook? How To Think Like An Entrepreneur @HollyHamann Co-founder, BlogFrog Feb 24, 2012
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Is Your Idea the Next Facebook?
How To Think Like An Entrepreneur@HollyHamann
Co-founder, BlogFrogFeb 24, 2012
Myth: This is your typical entrepreneurPhoto source: Access Hollywood
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Myth: Only certain people can start a company Photo source: Business Pundit
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• 60% respected brands who wanted to interact with
5 key questions you need to answer
1. What are you building?2. Who are you building it for?
3. How big is that market?4. Who will build it?
5. How will you make money?
Myth: A poor economy is a bad time to start a business Photo source: spafinder.com
Myth: This idea is too crazy Photo source: Entrepreneur.com
Myth: You have to raise funding to start a company
Myth: The market doesn’t need one more
Are you sure?
• 60% respected brands who wanted to interact withThere is ALWAYS room for innovation!
LuxuryLow cost provider
FasterSmallerStylishHigh QualitySpecial NeedsSocial Good
How can you be innovative?
• 60% respected brands who wanted to interact withEquity in small business makes up the 2nd
largest share of household wealth, 2nd only to home equity
(source: Federal Reserve)
• 60% respected brands who wanted to interact withTop 10 skill sets to build as an entrepreneur
• 60% respected brands who wanted to interact with
Remember these?
1. What are you building?2. Who are you building it for?
3. How big is that market?4. Who will build it?
5. How will you make money?
Ability to recognize opportunity
Ability to build teams
• 60% respected brands who wanted to interact withA word about founders.
Who you choose to team with will be the single most important business decision
you’ll make.
Ability to drive innovation
Ability to gather and process information
FOCUS
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Yup, still talking about these……
1. What are you building?2. Who are you building it for?
3. How big is that market?4. Who will build it?
5. How will you make money?
Tolerance for risk
Ability to make decisions
Willingness to be wrongPhoto source: wunderground.com
Network of mentors
Learn how to talk about money
• 60% respected brands who wanted to interact withThe lack of those 10 characteristics is also the cause of most failures
• 60% respected brands who wanted to interact with100 % of the shots you don’t take, don’t go in.
Wayne Gretzky
Resources – Books and Blogs
Mark Suster, Both Sides of the TableBen Horowitz, Bens BlogPaul Graham EssaysFred Wilson, AVCBrad Feld, Feld ThoughtsNivi and Naval, Venture HacksFoundry Group, Ask The VCEntrepreneur Magazine
Let’s get to work!
@HollyHamannFeb 24, 2012