Startup Webinar for QSI Students & Staff
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SPEAKER: Bill Barden
AFFILIATION: Enosi Australia
HOST: Professor Zhengfeng Ji, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
TOPICS:
1. Valuation and Obtaining Funding - Does a pre seed/seed series of funding work? Or do you actually need more substantial backing? Grants (Enosi has used this well - recently receiving Commercialisation Grant)? Industry backing? Partnering with the university, covering past R&D expense within the valuation.
2. Some basics on pitching - Problem, Solution, What traction? Total addressable market and getting to a minimum viable product, unique selling propostion, and other language and terminology.
3. Enosi - our tech start up, use of blockchain, the technology, our experience, and use that as a reference point/worked example for 1&2 above, explaining how we do it with Enosi.
4. What investors are looking for - global market reach, team, ability to commercialise. Hipster, hustler, hacker.
