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Outliers, Black Swans, and Internationalizing our Ecosystem
EntrepreneurshipResearch
Entrepreneurship Education
Innovation Servicesand TechnologyTransfer
GrowthVenturing and
Start-Up Services
What is ACE Today ?
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Inventions
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ACE Innovation Services today and tomorrow *
* This is ”Practice” part and it is Critical to future of Finland and must be resourced accordingly!!
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Finland’s (and Europe’s) Challenge
CreatingGrowth
In order to make this happen,we will need to do some thingsdifferently – what we are doing is not working well enough…
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Summary of Finnish high-tech company capital raising activity – Q32010
• Finnish high-tech companies announced raising nearly €30 million of risk capital during Q3 of 2010.
• The quarterly amount was comparable to Q3 2009, when Finnish high-tech companies were able to attract around €29 million euros of financing.
• The amount of investments remained equivalent to the prior year’s Q3 activity, however, the average investment size in Q3 2008 was significantly smaller
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Yearly Q3 Comparison - Investor Types
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The following is how I view that the values of Finland’s innovation ecosystem need to be recalibrated, and how Aalto will help…
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The Counter-Intuitive Reality of the Black Swan
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Outliers and Black Swan explained.
• Defies Prediction• Makes a Massive Impact• We make up Explanations
Afterward
Have we ever had any, and why are they so important today?
• Endowed with an unfair advantange.
• Extreme practice and work
Caveats and Disclaimers• I AM saying:
– Finland/Europe needs to create MANY €200MM+ growth companies to make the demographic math of the future work
– We, as a University community, can lay the foundations for their birth and growth, but it is challenging and we must LEARN how to do that
• I AM NOT saying:– That everybody should tune their startup to try to be a Black
Swan– That the guys at the Black Swans will (necessarily) be the
richest, though hopefully so…– That we can even guarantee any Black Swans will emerge
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1. On Passion…• Ecosystem: promotes and
rewards passion and ambition• Entrepreneur: Focus on huge,
game-changing problems
…and, lets not beat the billion euro ambition out of our founders !
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2. On Risk-taking and Failure…• Ecosystem: promotes
pioneering spirit embracing uncertainty, risk-taking and tolerating failure
• Entrepreneur: You must not fail! (but its OK if you do, keep trying!)
You just cannot have a Plan B !!Link Link
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3. On Youth and Energy…• Ecosystem: Attract founders,
who are ideally young, energetic and possibly migrants, and support them patiently
• Entrepreneur: Start early! Universities will probably drive the next Black Swan. And, DON’T BE PATIENT!
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Company Foundation Founder Age
Microsoft 1975 Bill Gates 20
Microsoft 1975 Paul Allen 22
Oracle 1977 Larry Ellison 33
Apple 1976 Steve Jobs 21
Apple 1976 Steve Wozniak 26
Cisco 1984 Len Bosack 29
Cisco 1984 Sandra Lerner 29
Sun 1982 Vinod Khosla 27
Sun 1982 Bill Joy 28
Sun 1982 Andy Bechtolsheim 26
Google 1998 Larry Page 25
Google 1998 Sergey Brin 25
eBay 1995 Pierre Omidyar 28
eBay 1995 Jeff Skoll 30
Yahoo 1995 David Filo 29
Yahoo 1995 Jerry Yang 27
Netscape 1994 Marc Andreesen 23
Intel 1968 Robert Noyce 41
Intel 1968 Andy Grove 32
Amazon 1994 Jeff Bezos 30
HP 1939 Bill Hewlett 26
HP 1939 David Packard 27
Dell 1984 Michael Dell 19
Founder Company Age
Hasso Plattner SAP 28
Dietmar Hopp SAP 32
Hans-Werner Hector SAP 32
Klaus Tschira SAP 32
Francis Bernard Dassault >36
Pier Luigi Zappacosta Logitech 30
Daniel Borel Logitech 30
Bernard Liautaud Business Objects 27
Denis Payre Business Objects 27
Jamie Urquhart ARM 32
Mike Muller ARM 31
Tudor Brown ARM 31
André Auberton-Hervé Soitec 31
Jean-Michel Lamure Soitec 44
James Collier CSR 40
Glenn Collison CSR 35
Mike Lynch Autonomy 31
Richard Gaunt Autonomy 28
Marc Lassus Gemplus 49
Daniel Le Gal Gemplus 37
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4. On Customers…• Ecosystem: Willing customers
participate in trial and error process with innovators.
• Entrepreneur: Get out of the office all the time – live and breathe with customers.
And customers: if you don’t pay, you are part of the product or
service, act like it!
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5. On Teams…• Ecosystem: Freedom offered to
talent who should not be snatched from start-ups. Talent (and capital!) MUST be mobile!
• Entrepreneur: Bring in the best wherever they come from (and many will come from abroad!)
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What are we trying to do at ACE to enable this?
• A Deep International Network– Bring world-class lecturers, practitioners and students IN– Send our community OUT to global hotspots.
• Support REGULAR bootcamps and events around key themes
• Create winning IP strategies• Raise the overall IMAGE of Growth Entrepreneurship• Collaborate fluently with our national and regional
ecosystem!• Get great ideas into the market FAST!
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Select Spin-offs and Start-Ups from Aalto University
Some Past Start-UpsHybrid GraphicsF-SecureSulakeRovioSolid… many others
Any Ideas? Invented Something?
Contact us directly:
Will Cardwell, Head, 040 514 1325
Pauli Laitinen, Innation Services team leader, 050 338 0509
Or looked at: http://ace.aalto.fi
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