Roundtable Recap: November 2 – People or Market: Which Takes Priority for an Investor?

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Jon Staenberg, Managing Partner at Staenberg Venture Partners, and a Seed Investor in over 300 ventures over the last 30 years. Jon drew from his long background and discussed some of what interests him to invest in a startup. He also reflected on the question People

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later from Udupi, Karnataka: Rohith Bhat’s Exhilarating Journey with Robosoft (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Rohith started a services company in his hometown – a small town on the west coast of Karnataka, India. Fifteen years later, the company is generating $18 million in revenue and has raised two sizable rounds of VC funding. I found the story exhilarating! Sramana Mitra:

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374th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 374th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, November 2, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

374th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 374th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, November 2, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Cognitive Scale CEO Akshay Sabhikhi (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Lift yourself to the 30,000 foot level and look at the AI universe. What do you see on the horizon as in trends and open problems that you could point other entrepreneurs to? Akshay Sabhikhi: If I may draw an analogy, think of this as the 1997 to 1998 timeframe of the Internet

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Cognitive Scale CEO Akshay Sabhikhi (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What is a good example of the other value proposition? Akshay Sabhikhi: All of us have been to Amazon. We all shop and we have preferences around things we buy on different websites. Think about the last time you went to a website. Pick your favorite sports brand. I never authenticated myself or given

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ken Fang, President of Mobomo (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Have you seen a use case that you could talk about where such conversational interfaces are being applied to a business problem? Ken Fang: One of the areas that we are working on with USCS is a pilot project where we built an Alexa interface for people to report. They have a web

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