shipperline experience in SV and some learning with it

1. SV comes to Oeiras
stop talking ‘n start doing
Hugo Duarte da Fonseca
our experience in the Bay Area

2. Summary
1. Getting to know more about Silicon Valley
2. Our experience there, with shipperform.com
3. Sucess stories, getting there…
4. What can we do in Portugal, and Oeiras?
5. Conclusions

3. Googl’ing the area
INTERESTING FACTS
-8 hours difference (GMT)
Stanford Vs Berkeley
1/3 VC worldwide
300/400 startups bought/year
Expensive to live
Difficult to get apartment
Difficult to get VISA
All started Goldrush

4. SV timeline
Source: Leadership Business Consulting and TICE

5. SV investment and ecossystem
the framework and players
Investimento em Venture Capital em Silicon Valley
Venture capital, SV vs US Universities Incubators
47% 46%
41%
39%
37% 35%
3.351 3.230
3.094
2.737 2.826 Venture Capital Media
2.145
Q1-2011 Q2-2011 Q3-2011 Q4-2011 Q1-2012 Q2-2012
USD Milhões % do total dos EUA
Source: Leadership Business Consulting and TICE

6. shipperform.com
1 idea
1 contest
1 prototype
1 travel, 3 months
2 guys
iterating:
pitching,
developing,
marketing,
events,
networking
2 BIG customers
investment

7. Logistics, it’s about time.
A simpler way to manage your
cargo
“Now everywhere!”
Mobile apps are the present and
the future
Users expect the same level of
functionality on the move
Customers with “hair on fire”:
1. Biggest container
exporter in Iberia
2. Top MDF exporter
worldwide

8. Recent projects…
…from portuguese entrepreneurs in SV
with US investment
ThousandEyes
…Portugal and Oeiras needs more

9. What can we do? In PT and Oeiras
at PT, we’ve started… at Oeiras, we can help
Incubators Universities Associations Working hard to integrate:
1. IST, and other universities
2. Startups and other Companies
3. Taguspark and other incubators
Public Funds Venture Capital Organizations How:
Companies need students
Students need projects, ideas,
companies and investment
IST, teachers and incubators can
Media Startups help linking and matching students,
companies and investors
(ex. SPIN IST)
Source: Leadership Business Consulting and TICE

10. Ideas to get there
1. Establish parterships with US incubators: 500Startups, Ycombinator, Techstars
vite Stanford, Berkeley and MIT portuguese alummni to promote the interchange Oeiras – S
3. Sponsor startups in Oeiras to Summer acceleration in SV
4. Propose a QREN project to fund internacional visits from Oeiras entrepreneurs to SV
5. Oeiras Startup Day, to present to Business Angels and VCs new projects for funding
Our Future
Starts Now!

11. The need for T-Shaped people
Breadth of Knowledge about
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership
Deph of
Knowledge
in a
Particular
Discipline

12. Recommend Reading

13. Conclusions – stop talking and start doing
Hello, I’m
Hello, I’m
Lei, chinese
Somesh, and work at
pakistani and Google
an
entrepreneur
Olá, sou o I’m Nicolas, Hi, i’m Omid,
Hugo,
french and iranian and
português, e
trabalho na work at work at
MAEIL Genesys Google

14. Startup working now!
Questions?
Contact us
twitter: @hddafonseca
FB: /hugoduartedafonseca
LinkedIn: in/hugoduartedafonseca
hugo.fonseca@maeil.pt
hugo.fonseca@shipperform.com