It’s easier than ever to start a business in Auckland Jennifer Clamp
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It’s easier than ever to start a business
in Auckland Jennifer Clamp
An idea you’re committed to
A product that meets a need
A sustainable business model
The startup journey
What good shall I do this day? Winston Churchill
An idea you’re committed to
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My tools
An idea you’re committed to
• A book of ideas • A letter to myself five years from now • Funds to take some time off work • Co-founder of
Find a motivating reason,
not a solution.
An idea you’re committed to
INSPIRATION • The Leap! • gridakl.com • Techweek.co.nz • meetup.com • eventfinder • medium.com
Your best friends
An idea you’re committed to
Events: • Startup grind • Coffee and cream • Show and tell • Bootstrappers Breakfast
Your best friends
An idea you’re committed to
EXPLORATION • Mum’s garage • Startup weekend • ngConnect • Young enterprise scheme • Ventureup • Livethedream
Your best friends
An idea you’re committed to
RESEARCH • Google (has it been done?) • Techcrunch.com
Vision without execution is hallucination
A product that meets a need
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” Thomas Edison
• Lean canvas / elevator pitch • Competitor research • Networking events • Customer interview • Hacked together prototypes
My tools
A product that meets a need
Find a compelling problem,
not a solution.
A product that meets a need
FEEDBACK • Networking events
meetup.com / eventfinder / techweek newsletter • Event: Entrepreneurs with a twist • Technical communities • FKA Angel Dropins
A product that meets a need
Your best friends
A product that meets a need
Your best friends
ROBUST VALIDATION PROCESS • Co.starters • thevalidator • eCentre foundations course • “Running lean” by Ash Maurya
A product that meets a need
Your best friends
PROTOTYPING • PowerPoint for software • DIY store • Makerspaces • Callaghan research grants
Without customers, you don’t have a business.
You have a hobby.
A sustainable business model
Don Peppers & Martha Rogers
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• Business model canvas / Lean canvas • Desk at co.working space Bizdojo • People who had been there before • Pitch competitions • Website / Advertising • Sign up page
A sustainable business model
My tools
Start small and get help
A sustainable business model
A sustainable business model
Your best friends
PEERS / COFOUNDERS • Meetup.com / eventfinda / Techweek
newsletter • Events at GridAKL • Start a meetup group • GridAKL tech café • Café Holm up on Krd • Facebook Groups
NZTech Startups Ecosystem, CRAKL • Angel dropins
HEAR OTHERS PITCH • Pitch circus • Accelerator demo days …
Akina Lightining lab eCentre Sprint Icehouse Powerhouse VentureUp
A sustainable business model
Your best friends
LEARN FROM MENTORS • Ventureup.co.nz • Velocity ideas challenge (UoA) • digmyidea.nz • Co.starters • This week in startups (TWIS) podcast
A sustainable business model
Your best friends
CLOUD SOFTWARE • Wordpress / WIX • Unbounce landing pages
FUNDING • Savings • Callaghan research and development
grants
A sustainable business model
Your best friends
1. Your co.founder could be sat right next to you 2. Sign up to Startup Weekend 3. Or co.starters 4. Join a meetup group (… and go along)
COME SAY HI!
Start today!
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders
of giants
Isaac Newton
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