Alan Jones
Chief Growth Hacker, BlueChilli. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Alan Jones is the Chief Growth Hacker at BlueChilli and a Founding Investor and Mentor at Startmate. He actively invests in and advises startups through firms including Blackbird Ventures and Pollenizer.
1shows
1appearances
13statements
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3supported
1contradicted
75%fully supported
Everything Alan Jones said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Australia Has an Abundance of Founders but Lacks Technical Co-Founders
“There's no shortage of entrepreneurs in Australia, but there's a real shortage of technical co-founders.”
Pitching Requires Emotional Storytelling, Not the Standard VC Metrics Template
“So we need to become great storytellers, and that never, never, never Fits the templates that the VCs want to see. Why? Because the VCs want to punch all the metrics into a spreadsheet and judge you coldly and rationally. The best thing that we can do is grab …”
Australia Will Produce Multiple $100M+ Tech Venture Funds by 2020
“In the Australian marketplace, there are now a number of funds in about that size, and all of us are looking to about 10 X the size of our investment capacity. So, I think we'll see in the next five years, I think we'll see a number of a hundred mil and greate…”
Blue Chili Will Exceed Its Goal of 100 Startups by 2016
“In fact, I'm pretty confident we're going to smash our goal of 100 by 20 16.”
Experienced Product Builders Should Bootstrap Instead of Raising Capital
“If you're a great product person, so if you've spent five or seven or 10 years building tech startup products, then your greatest skill and your most likely path to market is to bootstrap and build your own product.”
Non-Technical Founders Waste Time Seeking Co-Founders Before Validating Ideas
“Many non-technical entrepreneurs spend a lot of time going to meetups trying to find that potential technical co-founder. So that wastes a whole chunk of time, and then potentially when they start to build out their product team they might spend several 100,00…”
Recruit Technical Co-Founders by Framing Business Goals as Programming Challenges
“They don't see generally, they don't see business problems as nearly as interesting as great mathematical or logical or programming problems. And so I encourage people to break their business goal and their customer aspiration and the journey of their business…”
The Primary Purpose of a Startup Pitch Is Securing Follow-Up Discussions
“The purpose of a great pitch is to begin a discussion, right? So, even a Y Combinator Termsheets happen after the pitch, right? They happen in the discussion one-on-one, in the room when everybody's mingling, and more typically in markets outside of Silicon Va…”
Blue Chili Aims to Back 500 Startups Globally by 2020
“For Blue Chili, obviously we're going to smash our hundred startup goal. But I think, you know, realistically in the next five years, we're going to be aiming for 500 startups across Asia, across North America, and across Europe.”
Blue Chili Built a Portfolio of 54 Startups in Three Years
“Over the past three years, Blue Chili has built a portfolio of 54 startups, and we're on track.”
Alan Jones's Most Successful Investments Are Tools Built for Other Startups
“I think probably where I've been most successful is investing in startups that are solving problems for other startups. So building the platforms and the tools that you need as a startup founder.”
Blue Chili Launched a $10.5M Venture Fund in October 2014
“Last October we started investing from our first venture fund, a 10 and a half million dollar fund that makes matching investments and startups graduating from our portfolio.”
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 20VCLEDGER | Chief Growth Hacker, BlueChilli | 1 | 13 | 75% 3/4 | full record on 20VC → |