1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mohit Gulati of ITI Growth Ventures (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: That’s not a common practice in the US by the way. That is a practice that is more unique to India. Because of the proliferation of micro-VCs , people are starting to think. The other side of the equation of this unicorn mania is that the larger funds are doing very large series

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382nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Bruce Cleveland, Wildcat Venture Partners

Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, is one of the early employees at Oracle, as well as a co-founder of Siebel Systems. He is working on a book on The Traction Gap framework that his firm uses in its venture capital practice.

An Oligopoly, After All This?

Tech is becoming an oligopoly of a handful of titans dominating the subcategories: Google (Search), Facebook (Social), Amazon (Commerce). Then there is Apple (Device). In Software, the picture is a bit more encouraging with Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce.com, IBM, and a whole host of other fast growing SaaS companies still maintaining a healthy competitive dynamic.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tod Francis of Shasta Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Not all of e-commerce has the mobile characteristic. For example, if I want to do fashion shopping, I am absolutely not interested in doing it on my mobile. I want it on my cinema display. I want to have as much information as possible.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Warren Weiss of Foundation Capital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: At the same time, the cash is tight. How do you put one foot before the other? I saw that in your portfolio, there are some SaaS companies that are related to enterprise HR. What’s the thinking behind that? Warren Weiss: One is a company called SilkRoad Technology. It’s a mini-Workday for small

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mohit Gulati of ITI Growth Ventures (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: That actually gives me a segue into my other question. India stupidly fell into the unicorn mania as Silicon Valley did in that period. All this unicorn-chasing valuation and this kind of mania around being an entrepreneur took off. My original thought was India is a more conservative country. People are frugal. People don’t

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226th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Andrew Cain McClary, KdT Ventures

Andrew Cain McClary, Founder and Managing Partner at KdT Ventures, is a physician-turned VC. The focus of his investment is biology and related fields.

Catching Up On Readings: Top 10 Strategic Tech Trends 2018

This report from Gartner presents the top ten technology trends that organizations can exploit. These include AI, conversational platforms, cloud, immersive experiences, and blockchain. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.