Catching Up On Readings: Startup Battlefield 2017

This feature from TechCrunch covers the winners of the Startup Battlefield at the Disrupt SF 2017 event held in San Francisco held last week. Wireless charging startup Pi was the winner of the $50,000 prize and the Disrupt cup. For this week’s posts, click on paragraph links.

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Jim Regan, CMO of MRP (Part 5)

Jim Regan: You have these companies doing a great job aggregating behavior that’s online but there are all these other inputs that provide a lot of context for the machine and bring us a level of capability to make our predictions even smarter. The second thing is I just hate is the way content is

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From Australia to Silicon Valley: Anthony Smith’s Journey with Insightly (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What about financing? Did you raise more money? Anthony Smith: CRM, as you well know, is a very popular field with a lot of competition. Insightly was just one of many CRMs that had popped up over the four years prior to my starting the business. We had a lot of traction with

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September 28 – 369th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 369th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, September 28, 2017, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Jim Regan, CMO of MRP (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. You said 19 of the top 20 technology companies are your clients. Do you have metrics of having impacted their sales at a certain level using these kinds of technologies? Jim Regan: For most of the clients in a traditional sales and marketing funnel, it goes in-house at some point. It’ll go to

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10 Tech Entrepreneurs Who Did NOT Move to Silicon Valley in Podcasts

Let’s say you want to build a great tech company. Should you start by moving to Silicon Valley? Or, can you do it from right where you are, right from your own hometown? I suggest start validating your startup idea and building from right where you are. Today, it is no longer necessary for ambitious

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From Australia to Silicon Valley: Anthony Smith’s Journey with Insightly (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What did you tell Emergence Capital about what is going to be your monetization strategy? What were you going to charge and how were you going to go move your free users to paying users? Anthony Smith: We talked through it and looked at what would be some good options there. Google had

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Roundtable Recap: September 21 – Cindy Padnos of Illuminate Ventures on Multi-phase Seed Funding

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Cindy Padnos, Founder and Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures. Cindy spoke on a topic that we’ve been highlighting recently: the need for multiple seed rounds as a way to bridge the Series A gap. OLB Tech As for the pitches, first up, we had Miguel Ortiz

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