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  • mathowie
    mathowie said 3 months Edit Delete

    Audio from this talk is available here:
    http://www.webvisionsevent.com/podcasts/2008/Haughey.mp3

  • mathowie
    mathowie said 6 months Edit Delete

    Yeah, the talk I gave was recorded and the podcast should come out in the next day or two, so I'll try and sync/upload the audio here.

  • jboutelle
    jboutelle said 6 months Edit Delete

    Admiral Akbar RULES!!!
    'It's a trap!'.

  • AmitRanjan
    AmitRanjan said 6 months Edit Delete

    Mathowie,

    Yes, we don't yet do a very good job of handling transparent images... it's on our radars, may take some time for rollout...

    Nevertheless your slide deck is great... we've featured it on the homepage...

    any chance this could be made into a slidecast by synching the audio... that would add the context to the slides as well

  • mathowie
    mathowie said 6 months Edit Delete

    Weird -- my PDF export from Keynote had some transparent dark overlays on half the slides, so you could read white text on top of photos (which were darkened by the transparent layer) but those were dropped on upload to SlideShare, which is a shame.

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    Webvisions 2008: Avoiding the VC Trap

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    Slides from this year's Webvisions talk, where I talk about how to run a web business that doesn't need to take funding.

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    1. Slide 1: Avoiding the VC Trap Matt Haughey | Webvisions 2008
    2. Slide 2: How to run a successful web business you actually like, doing what you love, and on your own terms
    3. Slide 4: Defining some terms
    4. Slide 5: Why talk about funding?
    5. Slide 7: Paul Graham
    6. Slide 9: Paul Graham
    7. Slide 10: “You might as well be running a shoe store”
    8. Slide 12: What does venture capital do right?
    9. Slide 13: It funds innovation
    10. Slide 14: Gets grown-ups involved
    11. Slide 15: It fuels a cycle that lets really big ideas take off
    12. Slide 16: The downsides
    13. Slide 17: Strings attached
    14. Slide 18: Not the finish, just the begining
    15. Slide 19: Investors want exits, not zombies
    16. Slide 20: Too much
    17. Slide 21: The Myth of the Superstar
    18. Slide 22: What about the great big middle? 2007 2008 2009 2010
    19. Slide 23: Lifestyle Business “Lifestyle Businesses are businesses that are set up and run by their founders primarily with the aim of sustaining a particular level of income and no more; or to provide a foundation from which to enjoy a particular lifestyle.”
    20. Slide 24: Lifestyle Business “Lifestyle Businesses are businesses that are set up and run by their founders primarily with the aim of sustaining a particular level of income and no more; or to provide a foundation from which to enjoy a particular lifestyle.”
    21. Slide 25: Some ideas for running a successful business online
    22. Slide 26: Find your passion
    23. Slide 27: Build the app you always wanted
    24. Slide 28: Continually improve it
    25. Slide 29: Be the best, most active user of the product
    26. Slide 30: Start small, stay small
    27. Slide 31: Keep your dayjob
    28. Slide 32: Figure out a way to make it pay
    29. Slide 33: Charge something
    30. Slide 34: Do the math $5 x 1,700 users x 12 months = $102,000/year
    31. Slide 35: Free version Pro version
    32. Slide 36: Everyone pays (but with a free trial)
    33. Slide 37: Advertising, sponsorships, memberships, donations
    34. Slide 38: You gotta make it through the slog
    35. Slide 39: Some examples
    36. Slide 40: Web app model
    37. Slide 56: Software house
    38. Slide 61: Community model
    39. Slide 69: Sole Writer/Designer
    40. Slide 75: Conclusions
    41. Slide 76: It’s 2008
    42. Slide 77: Hardware: cheap
    43. Slide 78: Software: cheap
    44. Slide 79: Programming frameworks: plentiful
    45. Slide 80: Chances you will make $1 billion: slim
    46. Slide 81: Chances you will make $100k: good
    47. Slide 82: Total funds needed to launch: $100/mo
    48. Slide 83: Thanks. Questions? Background photos used: cash: Tracey O http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracy_olson/ office building: *Solar ikon* http://flickr.com/photos/chunyang/2210171888/ shoes: Kai Hendry http://flickr.com/photos/hendry/298879660/ grownups: laffy4k http://flickr.com/photos/laffy4k/52061780/ strings: Meanest Indian http://www.flickr.com/photos/meanestindian/328065491/ finish line: Chris Breeze http://www.flickr.com/photos/92833011@N00/270157428/ zombies: atp tyreseus http://www.flickr.com/photos/tyreseus/219645014/ light bulb: greg westfall http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregwestfall/2049488135/ bigwheel crash: sloanro http://www.flickr.com/photos/rs/129806614/ small bug: woodleywonderworks http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/2313927146/ work desk: ten safe frogs http://www.flickr.com/photos/tensafefrogs/7393410/ passion: torroid http://www.flickr.com/photos/torroid/2507357073/in/photostream/ webappschematic: jazzmasterson http://www.flickr.com/photos/jazzmasterson/3038597/ bestuser: top pocket man http://www.flickr.com/photos/mightyjc/111784097/ treadmill: maHidoodi http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahidoodi/199747855/

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