Ростислав Чайка “Raise money in Silicon Valley: Mission Impossible?”
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Ростислав Чайка “Raise money in Silicon Valley: Mission Impossible?”
- 1. How to raise money in SV ? Rostyslav Chayka www.rchayka.com
- 2. Meet Rostyslav Chayka ● Lviv Startup Club since 2009 ● Lemberg Tech Business School ● StartupLine.com.ua ● Startup Consultant
- 4. SF Bay Area 8 milion people 2nd most Fortune 500 Companies in the US NYC - SF Bay Area bilionares 1 milion in IT 35 000 potential unicorn founders Most expensive area in US
- 6. Who should try? Global product US customers Ability to move to SF Bay Area (at least 40-50% time)
- 8. Why ua teams have chances again? UA people do not understand US market Software eat the world A lot of derivatives UA people do understand technology landscape Digital lifestyle is the same $5m-$10m projects are not interesting
- 10. Doomed to fail ua global startups B2C services / solving direct customers needs Fast growing products B2B targeting over $100m valuation Mainstream new tech
- 12. Option #1: Incubator TOP incubators: YCombinator, TechStars, 500Startus Industry incubators 3-5 months in SF Bay Area Work hard Target big stories
- 13. Option #2: Ninja Adoption Education Industry expertise Early customers Partners Investors
- 14. Tip #1: Good American English Read, write, communicate, deliver presentations American english is not english :) Local slang, idioms, jokes, proverbs Tolerance go immigrants and mistakes
- 16. Tip #2: Integrate to business culture Be smart:) understand what you are doing Goal-oriented Time-saving Meaningles ignored Manipulations are funny Openless to opportunities
- 17. Tip #3: Focus on your industry Bad news: Generic events are senseless Good news: There are tons of industry events LinkedIn Facebok Quora Incubators / Accelerators / Coworkings
- 18. Tip #4: Build your network Store connections Communicate regulary Ask about connections Be proactive Help people :)
- 19. Tip #5: Persistence Be local :) Keep contact Able to meet
- 21. Expenses Airflight: 800$ - 1000$ Appartments: 350$ - 1400$ Transport / Car: 500$ - 900$ Food: 300$ - 1500$ Events: 200$ - 10K$
- 22. Contacts FB / LIn - Rostyslav Chayka +1 (408) - 650 - 23- 70 +38 (050) 522 - 88 - 75 www.rchayka.com rchayka@gmail.com