Startup School SV 2014

I've been spending some time watching all the videos from Startup School SV 2014 and they are very interesting, learning a lot from each of the talks, each of the speakers. Adding the videos here for those who haven't seen them.

Ron Conway (SV Angel) at Startup School SV 2014



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Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) at Startup School SV 2014



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Danae Ringelmann (Indiegogo) at Startup School SV 2014



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Kevin Systrom (Instagram) at Startup School SV 2014



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Eric Migicovsky (Pebble) at Startup School SV 2014



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Hosain Rahman (Jawbone) at Startup School SV 2014


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Andrew Mason (Groupon) at Startup School SV 2014



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Michelle Zatlyn and Matthew Prince (CloudFlare) at Startup School SV 2014



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Jim Goetz and Jan Koum (Whatsapp) at Startup School SV 2014



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Emmett Shear (Justin.tv, Twitch) at Startup School SV 2014



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Office Hours with Kevin & Qasar at Startup School SV 2014




Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own, and do not reflect those of my employer. -Fumi Yamazaki

"Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2014" by OECD

Some memo from "Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2014" by OECD 

Venture capital investments (in Million US dollars)

#1 US                     29,364.96
#2 Canada(2011)      1,406.58
#3 Japan(2012)        1,284.58
#4 Germany                932.85
#5 France                    902.24
#6 Israel                      895.00

Venture capital investments as percentage of GDP

Israel at top, US following, Korea 7th, Estonia 9th, and Japan 17th, etc.

Venture capital trends

Venture capital investment in Russia, Ireland and South Africa are growing.

Government-financed R&D in the business sector by enterprise size

Japanese government R&D funding is focused on large firms (more than 90%), and whereas Estonian government is investing 90% on small and medium-sized firms (granted, Japan has lots of large firms and Estonia has lots of small/medium sized firms but still this difference is huge.)

Share of young medium-growth enterprises 

Big increase in Estonia and Israel as expected, Luxembourg- growing as well.

Administrative burdens on start-ups and opportunity entrepreneurs

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own, and do not reflect those of my employer. -Fumi Yamazaki

Startup Weekend Women San Francisco #swwomensf Day1

I was asked to help an event called "Startup Weekend Women San Francisco" taking place this weekend. I will be helping as the timekeeper of the final presentation tomorrow :)



I've been to Startup Weekend in Tokyo, but this is my first time to join SW outside Japan. Also, this event is unique in that it focuses on women, so most of the participants are women, most of the coaches and judges are women.

Before starting, we had the dinner and mingling.









Red sweatshirt is for developers, black is designers, grey is non technical and blue is staffs. I liked this for several reasons: 1) it's very apparent who is developer, who is designer etc. We did events with tags, but they are small. With colored sweatshirts, it is very apparent. 2) For multiple-day events like Startup Weekend, T-shirts don't work, since you don't wear the same T-shirt for multiple days. Sweatshirts will work for multiple days.





Introduction of global & local sponsors



Speech by Amazon team, and speech by Mary Grove, Director of Global Entrepreneurship Outreach where she leads Google for Entrepreneurs.



Pitch time! Pitches were 60 seconds per person, no slides to be fair to everyone.  I was doing a photographer during the pitches while Sawako (photographer) was doing the timekeeper, so all the photos I took during the pitches are in the official camera now- might update with the photos later ;)
But the greatest thing here was that it was strongly encouraged to pitch, and among 90 or so participants, 41 of them pitched, among which 38 were women. Great job everyone :D

Pitch are starting #SWWomenSF amazing! pic.twitter.com/FytJRAj5bk
— Dvid Silva (@dvidsilva) September 14, 2013

Then, everyone got 3 stickers and started to put them on the ideas that they liked. This was also a chance for members to ask questions to each other about their proposals.







Some of the projects are starting to get many stickers...





Some projects getting migrated.



Lots of conversation kicked off.





The projects that got many stickers got announced- basically those who did not make it to the round will join the projects that made it.





Those who made it to the round stands in the surrounding - they need to recruit members now!

Final Judging criteria is going to be 1) execution 2) business model valuation and 3) user experience design.



Participants are off to team building and hacking! Look forward to the final pitches and demos tomorrow with lots of women :D

I'm so used to working as the only woman on a team that I didn't remember what it's like to work with so many females. #swwomensf
— Jess Falkenthal (@Jfalkenthal) September 14, 2013

List of final teams:

Daily Bread
QLook
Grogbot
Flaminga
Style Lend
Coffee
Genvestor
Prediction Log
Story Link
Insura
Infinite Looks
Goals Engine
Girls Network
Joyvite

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own, and do not reflect those of my employer. -Fumi Yamazaki