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Dave McClure
Founding Partner & Chief Troublemaker, 500 Startups
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Lean Startup:
Simpler, Faster, Cheaper, Smarter
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1. Startup Costs = Lower.
2. # Users, Bandwidth = Bigger.
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! 3. Transaction $$$ = Better.
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➢ Building Product => Cheaper, Faster, Better
➢ Getting Customers => Easier, More Measurable
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Iterative Product & Marketing Decisions
based on Measured User Behavior
Changes in Tech + VC
• LESS Capital required to build product, get to market
– Dramatically reduced $$$ on servers, software, bandwidth
– Funding Platforms: KickStarter, Angel List, Funders Club, etc
– Cheap access to online platforms for 100M+ consumers, smallbiz, etc
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• MORE Customers via ONLINE platforms (100M-1B+ users)
– Search (Google)
– Social (Facebook, Twitter)
– Mobile (Apple, Android)
– Media (YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr)
– Comm (Email, WeChat/WhatsApp/Line/Kakao, IM/Chat, Voice, SMS, etc)
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• LOTS of little bets: Accelerators, Angels, Angel List, Small Exits
– Y Combinator, TechStars, 500 Startups
– Capital + Co-working + Mentoring -> Design, Data, Distribution
– “Fast, Cheap Fail”, network effects, quantitative + iterative investments
Platforms 2.0
Search, Social, Mobile,
Video, Messaging
Before & After 2 Dot-Com Crashes
Simpler, Faster, Cheaper, Smarter
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500 Strategy: “Lots of Little Bets”*
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*See Peter Sims book: “Little Bets”
Minimum Viable Team:
Hacker, Hipster, Hustler
• Structure
– 5-25 person team
– $1M-$10M investment
– Seed & Venture Investors
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• Make Money (or Go Big), Get to Sustainability:
– Beta->Production, 12-24 months
– Revenue / Growth => “We Can Make (a lot of) Money!”
– Mktg Plan => Predictable Channels / Campaigns + Budget
– Scalability & Infrastructure, Customer Service & Operations
– Connect with Distribution Partners, Expand Growth
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• Prove/Expand Market, Operationalize Business
• Future Milestones: Profitable/Sustainable, Exit Options
Lots of Little Bets
aka “MoneyBall for Startups”
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Example Startup Ecosystem
• 1,000 Bootstrap Startups ($0)
• 300 Accelerator Startups ($10-50K)
• 100 Seed-Funded Startups ($250K-$1M)
• 30 Series A Startups ($2-5M)
• 10 Series B Startups ($5-20M)
• 5 Series C Startups ($20-50M)
• 1-3 IPOs ($50-250M)
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Investment Strategy
• Lots of Little Bets / Early Bets
• Solve Customer Problems -> Tech + Mktg
• Online Distribution / “Growth Hacking”
• Focus on Revenue over Usage
• “Hacker, Hipster, Hustler”
• Global Network + Silicon Valley HQ
Network Benefits
• Silicon Valley HQ + founder network
• Mentorship & Education
• Platforms & Distribution
• Downstream Investors
• M&A / Exit Environment
Follow-On Strategy
• Should we follow-on? Why or Why Not?
• Signaling Risk vs Portfolio Returns
• Downstream Investor Syndicate is critical
• Using Angel List to drive visibility
• Global Strategies (more capital, connections)
Feedback Loop & Metrics
• Bad decisions = obvious quickly
• Good decisions = not obvious for years
• Short-term metrics: revenue, users, next
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• Sharing best practices for decisions
• Lots of Little Bets helps speed up learning
• Billion Dollar “Unicorns” vs 10-20X ROI
Scaling VC
• Lots of Little Bets? Or a Few Big Bets?
• Power Laws, Singles vs Home Runs
• Focus on Network Effects
• Communication Platforms
• Portfolio Size vs Investment Stage
• Recruiting Thousands of VCs
How Big is Seed Stage Startup Market?
5,000 microVCs can fund 100,000 startups/yr @ $500K/startup = $50B/yr
Q: How many people are entrepreneurs? How many startups get started every year?
• ~1% of Humanity is “Entrepreneurial” (def’n: “can create a $10M rev/yr business”)
• 1% x 7B ppl = 70M entrepreneurs, who create 1-5 businesses lifetime (75 yrs)
• entrepreneurs could create ~1-5M new startup businesses every year
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Q: How much capital is needed globally to fund seed stage startups?
• Assume 1M-5M startups/yr x $50K-$1M funding/each
• Low: 1M x $50K = $50B/yr <-> High: 5M x $1M = $5T/yr
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Q: How many metros? How many investors? How many investors / startups / metro?
• 1 “micro-VC” can fund 10-20 startups/yr * $50K-$1M = ~$1-10M annual budget
• 500+ global metros with population >1M+ people can generate ~100-1,000 startups / yr
• guesstimate = min 100K+ startups/yr total across top 100-200 global metros
• 5-50 VCs / metro * 200 metros = 1,000-10,000 VCs globally
• FUTURE: 5,000 VCs can deploy $10M/yr each, or $50B/yr in ~100,000 startups
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This Talk
• What is 500 Startups?
• Changes in Tech + Venture Capital
• Growing 500 + “The Lean VC”
• GLOBAL Entrepreneurship
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Going Local, Going Global
web gets bigger -> world gets smaller
Local vs Global?
• “Silicon Valley is Unique” — NOT TRUE.
• *we had a 50-70 year head start… ROW will catch up.
• Emerging / Developing Markets: 3-5B+
• English, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic
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• Challenges: Payments, Mobile/Web, Logistics
• Challenges: Capital, Mentorship, Exits
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• Investor Ecosystems, Mentorship & Community
• Does the Future look different? (yes, we hope)
Global Trends
• Growth of Global Languages (see Gengo.com)
– 1B+ speakers: Mandarin, English
– 300-500M+ spkrs: Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Malay