PaaS: SaaS Companies, You Have an Unprecedented Opportunity

The current market is full of really interesting SaaS companies that have built up at least $100M in annual revenue run rate (ARR). Some have gone public. Some are waiting in the wings. There are also many more that are in the $50M to $100M ARR range. They serve different segments. Some serve verticals. Some

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anirudh Suri of India Internet Fund (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Anirudh Suri was recorded in December 2017.  Anirudh Suri, Founding Partner at India Internet Fund, talks about the funding trends in the Indian startup market. Sramana Mitra: Help us introduce you to our audience.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Yanev Suissa of SineWave Ventures (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: In this continuum of de-risking, where are you playing? Yanev Suissa: All of these things are reasonable factors that any VCs would look at including us. But to build an investment thesis of only investing if certain factors exist is not logical. We invest whether you have revenue or not, whether you have

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$200 Million in Revenue Catering to the Bottom of the Pyramid: Issa Asad, CEO of Q Link Wireless (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  This is a fascinating journey of an entrepreneur who has bootstrapped a $200 million business catering to poor people in the United States selling cellular phones and connections, and monetizing the data through advertising. In India, Reliance Jio has a similar strategy, by the way, for

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Catching Up On Readings: Top Tech IPO Performers 2017

This feature from TechCrunch looks at the top IPOs in 2017 that returned the best returns on the invested capital. These include IPOs of captal efficient startups like StitchFix and Roku. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. 

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Eva Ho of Fika Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How do you process the current investment climate where capital is moving further and further upstream with all these larger funds wanting to invest in much larger Series A deals, how does a seed investor or entrepreneur mitigate the Series A gap? There’s clearly a Series A gap. 50,000 to 70,000 seed-stage investments

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Yanev Suissa of SineWave Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: There are plenty of VCs focusing heavily on revenue numbers in the seed stage right now. Yanev Suissa: I remember I qualified it as who I know and who I respect. Sramana Mitra: I think I’d beg to differ there. There’re plenty of good VCs who are also focusing on revenue numbers at

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Eva Ho of Fika Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: In the 1,500 deals that you’ve seen this year, is this a trend that there are a lot of archaic industries getting heavy infusion in machine learning and artificial intelligence, and you’re seeing entrepreneurs emerge in those categories. Eva Ho: Absolutely. When we were working on Factual in 2007, we were pitching big

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