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Présentation de Sergio Escobar au Rendez-vous des professionnels de l'entrepreneuriat 2014, organisé par la CRÉ de Montréal. Sergio Escobar is the Managing Director for Silicon Valley early stage accelerator Founder Institute in Montreal, plus acts as Program Director for the pre-accelerator Startup NEXT designed by Steve Blank in partnership with Google and the Global Accelerator Network. Sergio has launched startups (eCommerce, Mobile Payments) and small medium businesses in the last 8 years with equity investments coming from angel investors and family offices. He is Global Facilitator for Startup Weekend (UP Global) in Latin America and Canada.
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Sergio A. Escobar
• Entrepreneur: startup en commerce électronique et en paiements mobiles,
• Gagnant de 2 prix TOYP de la Junior Chamber International
• Directeur de Founder Institute Montréal
• Directeur du Pré-accélérateur Startup NEXT
• Facilitateur Mondial de Startup Weekend (UP GLOBAL)
• Startup Genome, Mobile Monday, Angel Investors Challenge“L’entrepreneur qui est en nous voit des
opportunités partout où il regarde alors que la plupart des gens voient des problèmes partout où ils regardent ”
- Michael Gerber
@SergiusEscobar
VERTICALLY INTEGRATED ECOMMERCE STARTUP
EcommerceManufacturingTannerySlaughterhouseFarms
MOBILE PAYMENTS & WALLET STARTUP
RFID/NFCPaymentsLoyalty
TelcosBanksRetai lersProcessors
2011 – 2014Green fi eld
2014: +80 meetups, hackathons, bootcamps, etc, etc.
+4 startup related events per week.
MONTREAL ECOSYSTEM
CANADA – US: WORLD LONGEST UNDEFENDED FRONTIER
ONLY B IL INGUAL METROPOLE IN NORTH AMERICA(FR/ENG)
WHITIN 1 HOUR FL IGHT TO MAJOR NORTH EAST C IT IES
3 MILL ION PEOPLE
$3 B ILL ION VC MONEY (VC, FUND OF FUNDS)
MONTREAL
(CANADA)
Ecosystems: Replicating Silicon
Valley
“Silicon Valley”
Part 1THE MYTHS
MYTH 1: VC MONEY
VC Money Doesn’t Come First – It Needs an Ecosystem to Work
Good Companies
QualityHires
Grow Expand
Partners& deals Liquidity
Merger
IPOVC
MYTH 2: ACADEMIA
Not Many Universities, and You Can’t “Teach” Entrepreneurship
Passion IdeaTalent
MYTH 3: FACILITIES
The Top Technology Companies Started in a Garage
MYTH 4: RUB OFF
Visiting Corporate Campuses is Boring and Cubicles Suck
MYTH 5: TALENT
Most talent is imported, there is more talent elsewhere (and it’s cheaper!)
Part 2THE OPPORTUNITY
It’s not a place.It’s a mindset.
Silicon Valley
Great companies can be built anywhere
There are great entrepreneurseverywhere
Tested >15Kentrepreneurs.
THE TEST
Fluid Intelligence, Big 5 Personality, Trouble Indicators
THE METHODOLOGY
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
HIGH FLUID INTELLIGENCE
HIGH OPENNESS
MODERATE AGREEABLENESS
BAD FOUNDER DNA
How do founders in different cities compare?
THE CANADIAN
ENTREPRENEUR
• Canadian founders have 2.8% higher Fluid Intelligence than the global average
• Canadians are more open (+3.4%) and more extraverted (+2.4%)
• Canadians are significantly less conscientious than the global average (-14%)
CANADA VS. UNITED STATES
• Canadian founders show slightly higher Fluid Intelligence than U.S. founders (+3.8%)
• U.S. founders show slightly higher Openness and Extraversion (+1.5%)
• Canadian founders and Silicon Valley founders are nearly identical (<1.2% variance on all traits)
It’s not a place.It’s a mindset.
Silicon Valley
Great companies can be built anywhere
THANK YOU!
CONTACT ME:SERGIO.ESCOBAR@STARTUPWEEKEND.O
RGSERGIO.ESCOBAR@FOUNDERINSTITUTE.
NET
TWITTER: @SERGIUSESCOBAR
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE TEST:
FI.co/dna
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