Don't Quit Your Day Job! : When to Start Your Startup (and how to get it funded)

Don't Quit Your Day Job! At least not until you have burned up all your vacation or Paid Time Off.

You know you're ready to leave Corporate America and launch your startup when you've used up all your vacation time or Paid Time Off attending meetings with potential CLIENTS -- NOT just potential investors!

If you are prepared to face a week where every day feels like Monday (startup life in a nutshell) and you've embraced the idea of learning to love eating ramen purchased by the pallet then this session is for you!

We're going to SLICE through the top ten myths about the glamorous life of running a startup including :

1. When to actually start
2. When to get an advisory and how they should be compensated
3. Solving problems people actually have, are willing to pay to have solved at a price point above what it costs you to solve it for them.
4. Finding your tribe: "It's more fun with a friend" and how to "outsource your weaknesses
5. Firing Your First Customer : "It's not me it's you" and encouraging others to "find success elsewhere". Say it with me, "No." is a full sentence!
6. Raising capital at any stage : From F/F/F funding to ringing the bell on wall street and everything in between
7. Learning to "ship early, ship often" -- the art of the pivot
8. Recognizing and accepting failure -- and learn to accept that "nobody cares"
9. Celebrating your successes -- and learn to accept that "nobody cares"
10. Not the last train leaving the station: Learning to "Solve Your Today Problems"

Seasoned, as in salty, local technical founder with multiple exits, David V Duccini a serious software nerd with financial technology and financing chops will teach you how to recognize if you're doing something "For Vanity" or "For Profit" and what it takes to move from "Flounder" to "Founder"!

• Beginner
• Startups