We have been watching the Unicorn phenomena very closely over the past few years, as you can see in my series Billion Dollar Unicorns and From Unicorn To Unicorpse. Entrepreneurs looking for some genuine inspiration and advice from startup founders who have built their businesses up to Unicorn levels should have a listen to the
Anirudh Suri, Founding Partner at India Internet Fund, about the funding trends in the Indian startup market.
Sramana Mitra: Can you talk a little bit about how your investors are viewing the scale potential of your company given the business model that you’ve chosen. What are the discussions that you have with your investors regarding scale? Clark Benson: I need to explain something else to clarify that. Almost every other Internet publisher
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ken Elefant, Managing Director at Sorenson Capital, who discussed at length the investment thesis of his firm. OkiDoki First, Elena Avramenko from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pitched OkiDoki, a Slack-like app for family collaboration. Aponia Data Next, Jason Wisdom, New York, New York, pitched Aponia Data, a
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Today’s 378th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, December 14, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!
Sramana Mitra: When did you launch Ranker? Clark Benson: We launched it in August of 2009. Sramana Mitra: When you launched, what was the reception in the market? Clark Benson: We launched the site with 20,000 lists on it. It started getting traffic. It took a few months to get search traffic. I’m not very
Sramana Mitra: What was the business model? Clark Benson: We were living a little bit in a vacuum. The company had moved back to Chicago. I was in LA. I wasn’t very well networked in the Internet space at that time. There were very few internet companies in Chicago. My co-founders were not very well-networked.