Part I: How to identify good startups (Presented by John Hamblin)

What should you know before investing?
 Understanding the risks including your risk tolerance & appetite
 Reality is different from your expectation, especially the length of time.
 Confidence for your investing. Do not get pressured.
 Understand the company and make a standard for them such as scorecards.
What elements should the scorecard involve?

1. Team (20 Points):
a) Founder’s passion and knowledge
b) Appropriately reward and punishment policy
c) Strengths and weakness of team

2. Pain and Solution (20 Points):
a) Effective problem-addressing system
b) Logical and scalable solution
c) How they improvement and development

3. The Market (20 Points)
a) Real market and clients of their product
b) Product pricing (Acceptable/Profitable/Scalable)

4. The Customers (20 Points):
a) Understand and meet Customers demand
b) Do they have a logical growth plan and customer acquisition?

5. Competition (10 Points):
a) How they identified their competition?
b) Advantages and disadvantages over competitor.

6. Business Plan (10 Points):
a) A viable and profitable business plan
b) Realistic costs and expense
c) Their current strategy and future trends

What other problems you may meet during investing?

• Founder’s marriages break up may influence the rights of propriety
• Key founders’ quit
• Key employees may leave
• Money runs out

Part II: Startups demo featuring (Presented by Chris Greenfield, James
Knupfer)

What is “ tiptap”?

• A small, standalone, fixed-amount touchless payment receiver that is
  solving big world problems

What’s the benefit of “ tiptap”?

• Replace cash and coin
• Smallest, simplest, and fastest way to accept payments
• Creating new collection possibilities

What is “ Candidly”?

• A recruitment marketplace that connects employers to Software Developers
  with pre-verified programming skills

What’s the advantage of “Candidly”?

• Multi-source algorithm analyzes responses to identify a candidate’s level of
  knowledge
• Accurate matching candidates to employers based on their profile.
• Improved candidate experience and expanded employment opportunities.