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Accelerators & Incubators

Dave Parker @DaveParkerSEA www.ForestTreesBark.com

Agenda
WELCOME! About Dave The Ecosystem Your Lifecycle Accelerators/Incubators/Co-Working Programs

About Dave
Director, Founder Institute Seattle Serial Entrepreneur started 4, sold 2, closed 1, 1 operating. Board Member sold 4, on 4 VC for three years Advisory Board Member

Who are you?

The Startup Ecosystem


Sponsors

Groups & Organization


NWEN, Meetups

Programs & Events


Universities, Startup Weekend, Hack-a-thons, Accelerators, Incubators

Resources
Startup City, Startup Calendar

Ecosystem, Cont.
Media Investors & Angels
Angel.co , AoA, K4, VCs Angel List, Gust

Service Providers
Investment Bankers, Accounting

Hangers On
Leeches

Definitions
Incubators

Accelerators

CrashDev post

Niche clean tech, health care, mobile Location state, national, international Invest Cash or Pay Course Fee Single vs. Co-Founder Full Time vs. Part Time Co-Working Spaces space +

What Do You Want?


Lifestyle Business? Services Business? Scalable Business? Will you need capital? What do you need before capital? Whats your Golazo?

Where Are You?

PreIdeas

PreProduct

PreRevenue

What do you need?


Blocking & Tackling? Incorporation, research, Exec Summary, financial model, demo Team? Some programs require co-founders

Network? Peers & Mentors


Investment? Only after you have a product!

Coaching? When you have a model and $$

Programs

S t a g e & T e a m

Time & Investment

Incubators
Space Investment Themes Peers

Accelerators
Structured Program or Outcome

Full time 500 Startups / Tech Stars


Part time Founder Institute

Product Demo

Peer Contacts
Think B-School grads

Mentor Contacts
Hard contacts are still hard to get a hold of

Co-Working Space
Short term lease Flexible Space
Surf, TheHub, Hacker Dojo

Peers

Mentors

Check List
Idea Stage Customer Validation Team Status

MVP & Product


Blocking and Tackling Space

Q&A

thank you

Supporting Slides

NWEN Meetups Tech Stars

Founder Institute
Idea(s) POC Product Revenue Scale

Notes
Stage of your startup FI takes the pain out of
Spreadsheets, incorporations, Focus on problem, solution and product

Geeks on a train/plane Lean Reis

Niche specific incubators gaming healthcare


Local, State, National, International

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