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Startup Lifecycle Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco
Technology Fellow - Battery Ventures November 2014
@adrianco
Who are Battery Ventures?
• Diversified private investment firm focused on technology and innovation worldwide since 1983
• Investments in more than 375 companies across numerous technology sectors, end markets, business situations and economic cycles
• Broad and loyal LP base
• Proud heritage of being the lead investor and positive agents of change alongside our management team partners
• Currently investing BV X, a $900 million vintage 2013 fund • 10 year life cycle • Stage agnostic • North American, European, & Israeli
focus
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Some Current Enterprise Portfolio Companies
Storage
Networking
Compute Big Data Operations & Management
Security
Visit http://www.battery.com/our-companies/ for a full list of all portfolio
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Adrian’s 2014 Activities: 26 internal talks 40 public talks, 9 interviews
Enterprise IT CIO/CTO
relationships
Web scale developer
relationships
Technical input on deals
Technology consulting for portfolio
Etc.
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Title
Meetings
Hot Deals
Investments
Value Axis
0 1250 2500 3750 5000
30
250
5,000
Typical Large VC Firm Activity in a Year
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Lifecycle
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Startups are like premature babies in an incubator, hard to conceive, hard to birth,
and will die without constant attention.
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Networking
Get to know startup/VC people Become a “go to” expert on something Be helpful, pay it forward Find ideas that resonate Build friendships and trust
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Investment Thesis
Match yours to the VC’s Commodity replaces custom hardware IaaS replaces datacenter SaaS replaces packaged software Mobile replaces desktop Flash replaces disks
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Find a Pain Point
What’s the problem? Something you have experienced Something lots of people need fixed Couldn’t do that before Couldn’t afford that before Couldn’t get existing thing to work
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Your Unfair Advantage
Why will you win? Disruptive business model Unique experience on your team Strategic advantage Speed of execution Defensible patents are not enough
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Pre-Pitch Brainstorming
Develop your ideas Find VCs that are interested in talking Discover who else is in the same space Get input on gaps in the market Get referrals to other VCs
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Map Your Strategy6
Simon Wardley http://blog.gardeviance.org/2014/11/how-to-get-to-strategy-in-ten-steps.html Related tools and training http://www.wardleymaps.com/
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Plan Your Pitch7
Reinertsen Weissman Neal FordWardley
Strategy Execution Story Polish
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Pitching Practice
Try out on friends, distill !
“I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one”
Blaise Pascal, Mark Twain
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Phases and Funding
Self/Angel - ideation ($xx K) Seed - initial product ($xxx K) A - market validation ($x M) B - growing the market ($xx M)
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Staying Alive
Use VC pattern match advice Deal is done when $ in bank Burn rates, contingency Raise when you don’t need it
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You are most likely going to fail. Make sure you learn from your failures and
build trust in the VC community, and you will get a second chance.
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Some HPC Opportunities: !
Solve problems at scale that migrate to mainstream markets
Bring consumer/enterprise tech to HPC Data science and analytics
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Further Reading from Adrian
See www.battery.com for a list of portfolio investments
● Battery Ventures Blog http://www.battery.com/powered ● Adrian’s Blog http://perfcap.blogspot.com and Twitter @adrianco ● Slideshare http://slideshare.com/adriancockcroft
!● Monitorama Opening Keynote Portland OR - May 7th, 2014 - Video available ● GOTO Chicago Opening Keynote May 20th, 2014 - Video available ● Qcon New York – Speed and Scale - June 11th, 2014 - Video available ● Structure - Cloud Trends - San Francisco - June 19th, 2014 - Video available ● GOTO Copenhagen/Aarhus – Denmark – Sept 25th, 2014 ● DevOps Enterprise Summit - San Francisco - Oct 21-23rd, 2014 - Videos available ● GOTO Berlin - Germany - Nov 6th, 2014 ● AWS Re:Invent - Las Vegas - Cloud Native Cost Optimization - November 14th, 2014 ● Dockercon Europe - Amsterdam - Microservices - December 4th, 2014
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Further Reading from Adrian
See www.battery.com for a list of portfolio investments
● Battery Ventures Blog http://www.battery.com/powered ● Adrian’s Blog http://perfcap.blogspot.com and Twitter @adrianco ● Slideshare http://slideshare.com/adriancockcroft
!● Monitorama Opening Keynote Portland OR - May 7th, 2014 - Video available ● GOTO Chicago Opening Keynote May 20th, 2014 - Video available ● Qcon New York – Speed and Scale - June 11th, 2014 - Video available ● Structure - Cloud Trends - San Francisco - June 19th, 2014 - Video available ● GOTO Copenhagen/Aarhus – Denmark – Sept 25th, 2014 ● DevOps Enterprise Summit - San Francisco - Oct 21-23rd, 2014 - Videos available ● GOTO Berlin - Germany - Nov 6th, 2014 ● AWS Re:Invent - Las Vegas - Cloud Native Cost Optimization - November 14th, 2014 ● Dockercon Europe - Amsterdam - Microservices - December 4th, 2014
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Contact usBV West 2884 Sand Hill RoadSuite 101Menlo Park, CA 94025 USAphone: (650) 372-3939fax: (650) 372-3930
BV East 1 Marina Park Dr.11th Floor Boston, MA 02210 USAphone: (617) 948-3600 fax: (617) 948-3601
BV Israel 6 HaChoshlim Street6th Floor Herzliya 46724 Israel phone: + 972 (99) 72 4300 fax: + 972 (99) 50 9484
Enterprise IT Team Contacts: Itzik Parnafas | General Partner | Israel | itzik@battery.com Adrian Cockcroft | Technology Fellow | West | adrianco@battery.com Paul Drews | Vice President | East | pdrews@battery.com Shiran Shalev | Associate | Israel | shiran@battery.com
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!Alex Benik | Partner | East | abenik@battery.com Paz Eshel | Vice President | Israel | paz@battery.com
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