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Hardi Meybaum, CEOfounders @ grabcad.com@grabcad
Hardi Meybaumtwitter: @hardi_meybaum
GrabCADGrabCAD
- increases sales- increases sales
“Want to design the lightest electric superbike?”
99 designs for CAD
One week, 150 different design ideasOne week, 150 different design ideas
Who am I to teach you?Who am I to teach you?
• Raised 1.5M+ USD from 15 investors (13 outside Europe)
• Only Company who have won both SeedCamp and Techstars
Who did I get there?Who did I get there?
~ 800 new connection in 9 months~ 70 presentation to ~ 3000 people
~ GrabCAD_presentation_ver281 .. and counting
Lesson learnedLesson learned
Accelerators are nice, but expensive
be
Man/Women to take advantage
Lesson learnedLesson learned
Network like crazy
you
never know who will play important role
Lesson learnedLesson learned
You don’t ask money
you
will help investor make more money
Lesson learnedLesson learned
And this is all irrelevant
if
Your product doesn’t have traction
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