silicon valley mizio technology scouting alumni mip february 2011
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My experience as technology scout in Silicon Valley.TRANSCRIPT
A GLIMPSE INTO SILICON VALLEY
Stefano Mizio
February 17th 2011
You need to take a look outside your company
Your DNA (the way you see problems, opportunities, mana-gement) is biased!!
You need a DifferentPerspective!
Dead Poets Society
If you spent the entire your ca-reer in a big company...
The Menace
“A dream to some... a nightmare for others” [Merlin, Excalibur]
“ Innovators use both the right and left side of their brain.
What Peter Drucker says about innovation....
They look at figures and they look at people.
Go out to look...
...to ask
to listen!“
Are you a tourist?
What is Silicon Valley?
If you go to see Silicon Valley, what you'll see are buildings...
Risk taking
Openness
Great Universities
Right Investors
Mentoring System
But it's the people that makes it Silicon Valley, not the buildings.
Some Myths
You need Venture Capital. Not completely true!!!...on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies. Only approximately 16 percent of the roughly 900 unique companies on the list from 1997-2007 had venture capital backing.Kauffman foundation report
startups aren’t just an important contributor to job growth: they’re the only thing. Without startups, there would be no net job growth in the U.S. economy. From 1977 to 2005, existing companies were net job destroyers, losing 1 million net jobs per year. In contrast, new businesses in their first year added an average of 3 million jobs annually.Kauffman foundation report
Google, Microsoft, Cisco are vital to employment. Wrong!!!
Some Myths
Unemployment,what is it?
Gigaom
Do you know that...
California looks like Italy in terms of GDP... according to The Economist but only 37 million population (Poland)
Almost 6,000 miles!My best friend: TomTom.
Where I spent my time
Formal and informal information sources
my eco-system...
Technical meeting
It's maybe the best way to meet people to share the same interests
Very informal way! “Pizza and Software” as in Mountain View for Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group last August on Open Stack!
more formal such as at IEEE workshop on “Internet of things” in Santa Clara University in September.
OR...
Business Meeting
..gathering Venture Capitalists gut feeling, looking at their portfolio and meeting startups!
OR...
“Classical” Events
To get the big pictures and main trends!
Mobilize event on the “Future of mobile web” in San Francisco last September
DiscoveryBeat at Mission Bay last October
Or...
Visionary Events
To get inspiration!
Listening from Marissa Mayer from Google or Tim Brown from IDEO or Rendy Comisar from Kleiner Perkins at Stanford.
Listening John Hagel III in Moun-tain View while he was giving an insightful look at the power of to-day's knowledge flow
Or...
The Italian Guys
Silicon Valley Study Tour at our Consolato in San Francisco
Scouting Process
Julian Bleecker at Device Design Day in SF on how Science Fiction can help innovation
The iPAD 23 years agoiPad and Star Trek
Identification Selection Assessment Dissemination
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CTO/CMO
Product M.
Scouting Process
Identification Selection Assessment Dissemination
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Scouting Process
Cloud Computing
CleanTechInternet of Things
Mobile Health
Cross Platfom mobile dev
LBS
IT Governance
Mobile payments
App Discovery
Assessment
Scouting Process
Technological realization complexity
Mar
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Potential market size
Competitors' landscape
Technology maturity
Complexity
High
High
low low
Relevance
ProGrid SW
DT Process
So... what?American Excitement
Italia, 44° Rapporto Censis “società senza spinte vitali...assenza di motivazioni a cambiare...”
“...scopriremo che sempre più spesso il lavoro bisogna crearselo, non cercarlo, perchè non c'è quasi più niente da trovare in giro,..”
Riccardo Luna, Wired gennaio 2011
Sometimes Cartoons can inspire you
The new needs friends!Anton Ego, Ratatouille
Change is nature.The part that we can influence. And it starts when we decide.Remi, Ratatouille
Thank YouTwitter: SMIZIO - [email protected]
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Where are you going? With Luck, Forward!! !Remi