Qu’est-ce que vous faites début Mars ?
- Je soutiens ma thèse ? Perdu !
- Je commence une nouvelle mission chez Sopra ? Perdu !
- Je commence mon stage ? Perdu !
seedcamp !
Début mars, SeedCamp sera en France, donc on passe du polish sur son pitch et on révise ses verbes irréguliers …
Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas, SeedCamp est une sorte de star académie pour startup sans la télévision et avec comme jury des grosses sociétés d’investissements. Leur concept est de permettre le développement de nouveau gros business en Europe. C’est ouvert à tous et je crois que tout le monde peut envoyer gratuitement un dossier de candidature. Les gagnants reçoivent 50 K€ d’investissement et 3 mois de coaching par des pontes du milieu pour se préparer à une véritable levée de fonds.
Autant dire que SeedCamp, c’est l’ascenseur social à la vitesse de la lumière…
Pour vous donner une idée, voici le questionnaire SeedCamp de l’an dernier :
Questions for the whole team
- What is your company called?
- What are its contact details?
- What are you creating?
- What is really new about that?
- How long have you been working on this? As a team?
- What customer need will you solve or why do people need your product?
- What specifically is your target market and how is it being poorly served today?
- What gives you an unfair advantage?
- How will you sustain that unfair advantage?
- How will you make money?
- Why is this team the right one for this company?
- If you are incorporated (as a company): who owns what, and what is the detailed funding history? If you are not yet incorporated: who will own what percentage of the company?
- To date, what specific progress have you made in building your product/company (e.g. development milestones, feature additions, customer sign-ups, etc.)?
- We are really impressed by teams that get stuff done. Please provide a URL (with login/password details if necessary) to a prototype of your product, or failing that to a video of a prototype of your product. Keep the link live from 11 August through the first week of September.
- When will you have a prototype/beta?
- What tools will you use?
- It is always good to evaluate all your future options. If you decided to sell your company, who would be the likely buyers for the business, and why?
- What measurements will you use to value your business in a year? What will it be worth? What are key milestones that will account for the growth in value from today to 1 year from now?
- Who are your main current or potential competitors as well as identified potential new entrants? (Think hard before you say “none”)
- What is the single largest competitive threat to your business that you can identify today?
- Planning for the worst is a key to great success. Think hard: what might go wrong? How can you minimize those risks?
- What about your business are you most uncertain about?
- What fact would make the most difference to your confidence that your company will succeed? How and when will you find that out?
- Is your team working full time for the company? If not, what needs to go right for this to happen?
- What do you hope to get out of the Seedcamp experience?
- Does any founder have a conflicting future commitment? If so, what? Are any of you involved in other projects?
- Apart from open source software, was any of your code written by anyone not on the team?
- Does any actual or potential legal restriction or limitation apply to any team member which we should know about (e.g., non-disclosure, non-compete)?
- Let us say you have 15 seconds to pitch your business. Can you describe your business?
- What is your favourite movie of all time?
- What question do you wish we had asked? What’s the answer?
Pour plus d’infos et être tenu au courant : http://seedcamp.com/
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