vision & ideas - making a successful startup

Vision & ideasBrussels, 19/11/2014

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Becoming wealthy

Creating a community

Getting critical acclaim / Becoming industry leader

Changing society, industries

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• Scalable (virtual component)• High margin• Recurring• Business (life) critical• Value for multiple stakeholders (platform)• Small amount per transaction

Will your market position be defensible 10 or 20 years in the future?

Can you create breakthrough

technology?

Is now the right time to start your

business?

Are you starting with a big share of a small market?

Do you have the right

team?Do you have a way to distribute your product?

Have you identified a unique opportunity that nobody sees?

« when a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a

reputation for bad economics, it is the

reputation of the business that remains intact »

w. buffett

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5-year sales growth of +4900%

“… unleash a new wave of Internet disruption that decentralizes the entire economy”

Vision!

“Blockstream has no clear roadmap on how it will turn an open-source software engineering project into a corporate money-maker. Instead, investors took a leap of faith.”WSJ 17/11/2014

€ 21 mio investment

from Reid Hoffman, Jerry Yang,

Eric Schmidt, Vinod Khosla & others

Vision?

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