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During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Shaherose Charania spoke about the powers of mobile technology to spur positive change in the world.

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Insights from Silicon Valley to Barcelona 

Foresights on Consumer Mobile Barcelona Ac?va 

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Mobilista. Passionista. Gemini. Canadian. 

By day: iden5fying growth stage companies ripe for expansion or VC funding with Opinno 

By nite: enabling awesome ideas, startups and women founders with Women 2.0 

In between: telephony / mobile startup projects – product management and marke5ng 

Connec?ng people. Enabling people. 

Who am I?

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Brave New Funding Environment

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“One trend is seeing lots of smaller acquisi4ons under $100 mi and even more under $30 mi…with these numbers, the old 20x plus return investments are rare…”                  

– Brian O’Malley, BaHery Ventures 

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VC Fundraising is on a general decline. Poor economy. Smaller exits. Money is being put elsewhere

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Brave New Investors

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"In this brave new world, startups need to  re‐think the tradi4onal VC set of ”leFer series" ‐ A, B and so on.  In this less liquid environment startups cannot rely on follow‐on investment.  You need to get enough money upfront to last you through to profitability”  

‐ Esther Dyson, Angel Investor 

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Filling the gap for early stage

Incubators Space availability, program based, some individual funding

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Brave New Innovators

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“There isn't as much chaff in the air.”  

– Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital 

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Lean prac5ces and bootstrapping 

Building, smaller sustainable businesses on APIs 

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A view from Silicon Valley 

Innova?on Trends 

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Music industry 

Device industry 

Retail experience 

Disruption

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Ea5ng companies  Gizmo5, Admob, Lala, AppJet….more 

Killing a startup a day, moving into mobile from web, outcomes to be seen 

Goggles  Voice Nexus one  Android Google Broadband and WiFi  

Startup and Feature Feast!

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Enhancing voice services 

Ribbit 

JAJAH 

GIzmo5 

Only buy European carriers and web companies in the mobile space; not by American carriers. 

Buying user base and innova5on 

Carrier response

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Virtual Goods to surpass $1.6 bi US in 2010 

"2009 was the year that casual games like Zynga's popular FarmVille took over the major social plaforms and changed the way millions of people socialized with friends online. Casual games introduced a rich, new way of interac5ng with friends on social networks, and saw the highest engagement numbers that the online entertainment industry has ever witnessed,” ‐ Jus5n Smith, founder of Inside Network 

Implica5ons for Mobile Industry? Opportuni5es for mobile payments and mobile games. 

Social games and virtual goods

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New space to manage online iden5ty and consumer personal safety. 

“Social fraud can damage your reputa5on and lead to iden5ty thej/economic fraud. You will loose up 5480 hours, up to $14K in wages, up to $1300 in expenses to resolve your iden5ty thej.” – www.spamlaw.com 

Implica5ons for mobile?  Opportuni5es to innovate and provide paid services to keep consumers safe. 

Social Fraud

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Many aHempts to improve the online shopping experience in the Women 2.0 community 

Zappos, overstock.com not for the typical female shopper. 

Gilt.com limited offer approaches are winning as sustainable businesses 

Opportuni5es for Mobile? Local and reward based: she shops in the stores, the phone is her companion 

Shopping, mobile, real world

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New engagement model, business model to be seen. 

Provides micro jobs and opportunity in new places. 

Opportuni5es for mobile? Tasks executable via phone, input data via phone.  

Crowdsourcing knowledge and effort

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Loca5on, loca5on, loca5on, value, real 5me 

Rewards and gaming. 

Foot traffic, retail, power of mobs. 

It’s en5rely mobile, crowdsourced. 

Win with ease of use, high engagement and first to market. 

Mobile, social, local

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BaHery life must extend. 

Innova5on for niche markets, young, old, female. 

Explore prototyping hardware products in new places, eg. India. 

Build products for new markets. 

Niche hardware products

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Prac?cal ways to take your startup global 

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Leveraging Social Media

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JAJAH Case study

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Startup Resources

Crunchbase @crunchbase 

Springwise @springwise Ycombinator @newsycombinator 

Eric Ries @ericries 

Dave McClure @davemcclure Om Malik @gigaom 

Naval Ravikant @venturehacks 

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