Startups & Unicorns

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1. STARTUPS & UNICORNS Ricardo Vázquez @ric2z
2. What’s a Startup? • Wikipedia Says: 
 
 A company, a partnership or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets.
3. What’s a Startup? • Innovation • Scalability • Creativity • Culture
4. We All Know These • Twitter • Facebook • Instagram • Dropbox • Google • Foursquare
5. But There’s More • Soylent • Wants to replace all your food with a gray goo •Über • Wants to give you a personal driver everywhere •Airbnb • Is giving you a place to stay anywhere in the world and host others •Fitbit • Wants to track your movement
6. …And More • Upworthy • Wants to give you the good news • Plated • Sends you ingredients and recipes so you can eat well •Pandora • Wants to dissect your musical tastes
7. And More!
8. Ecosystems
9. Creative Approaches • Automattic • Valve Corporation • Zappos • Treehouse • Medium • Github • HYPERHYPER
10. Unicorns
11. Unicorns
12. Unicorns • Data Science = Creativity + Programming + Problem Solving • Growth Hacking = Programming + Marketing + Psychology • User Experience = Programming + Design + Psychology
13. Unicorns
14. Unicorns
15. Thanks Ricardo Vázquez @ric2z