The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20 VC 045: From Idea to Pitch with Alan Jones, Founding Investor @ Startmate
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman.
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Show Notes
Alan Jones is Chief Growth Hacker at Bluechilli, who have set the incredible goal of building 100 startups by 2016! Alan is also Founding Investor and Mentor at Startmate, an Australian Y Combinator style accelerator. If that wasn't enough Alan also invests and advises through Blackbird Ventures, Pollenizer and Startmate.
In Today's Amazing Discussion with Alan We Discover:
What you should do when you have a great idea?
How to validate a market?
How to figure out if it is a viable business?
What can non technical co-founders do to get their idea of the ground?
What individuals can do to meet technical co-founders?
What are the biggest tips for entrepreneurs when facing a pitch?
Items Mentioned in Today's Show:
Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational
Tzukuri: Bluetooth Wearable Technology
TreeHouse
Quora
OtherLevels: Mobile Marketing Automation Platform
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