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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Tracy Metzger, COO of Vesta (Part 4)

Posted on Saturday, Nov 11th 2017

Tracy Metzger: There is a need today to go out and find a consolidated way to leverage all of these different great technologies that are bespoke in their way of implementation. There is a need to find a way through a single point of interface, to leverage all of these great solutions, and make it easy

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Building a Venture-Scale MarTech Company in Silicon Valley: Chaitanya Chandrasekhar, CEO of QuanticMind (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, Nov 11th 2017

Sramana Mitra: One question, when you raised the $12 million, what were the metrics? How many customers did you have? Chaitanya Chandrasekhar: Starting the year 2014, we had zero revenue. Because of Home Advisor, we exited the year doing $2 million in contracted recurring revenue. Sramana Mitra: $2 million in recurring revenue from how many

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Tracy Metzger, COO of Vesta (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Nov 10th 2017

Tracy Metzger: Vesta processes anywhere from 300,000 to 500,000 transactions a day and up towards $18 billion in payments a year. We carry elements like their mobile devices and desktop devices. We know the operating systems, screen dimensions, their page viewing history on certain e-commerce websites, and their social reputation information where it’s applicable. There are

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November 16 – 376th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Nov 10th 2017

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 376th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, November 16, 2017, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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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375th Roundtable Recording On November 9, 2017: With Vinny Lingham, Newtown Partners

Posted on Friday, Nov 10th 2017

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

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10 Big VCs Discuss Startups They Would Finance in Podcasts

Posted on Friday, Nov 10th 2017

Entrepreneurship does not equal financing. Entrepreneurship = Customers + Revenues + Profits. Financing is optional. Exit is optional. You may be surprised to hear that many VCs agree. Please listen to the following 30-minute podcast interviews with ten investors at large venture capital firms. Learn for yourself if it is time for your venture to

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Building a Venture-Scale MarTech Company in Silicon Valley: Chaitanya Chandrasekhar, CEO of QuanticMind (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Nov 10th 2017

Sramana Mitra: How did you get the beta customers? Chaitanya Chandrasekhar: We had a lot of experience at NexTag and we used to work with a lot of customers. Me and my co-founders knocked on a lot of doors. One of them gave us a chance. When we built an MVP, we built the MVP based

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Roundtable Recap: November 9 – What Seed Investors Look for with Vinny Lingham, Newtown Partners

Posted on Thursday, Nov 9th 2017

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Vinny Lingham, Co-founder and CEO, Civic.com and Managing Partner of Newtown Partners, discussing his investment thesis in B-to-C seed ventures. We also discussed the role ICOs are playing in filling the gaps in certain seed-stage ventures. Rummoli As for the pitches, first, Scott Mayhew from Prince

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