1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nitin Pachisia of Unshackled Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: VC firms are raising huge amounts of capital. The management fees are so big. They don’t really need to deliver any returns. They are just sitting and becoming fat with fat management fees. Nitin Pachisia: To your earlier question about the trend in the VC industry, you have to decide as a VC

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jason Lemkin of Storm Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: SaaS continues to be bigger because there is a lot more software adoption happening all over the world. Last week, we had a session that was focused on what’s happening on the Indian cloud market, which is a very active market right now. There’s a company called Greytip that has built up quite

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391st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ben Mathias, Vertex Ventures

Ben Mathias, Managing Partner at Vertex Ventures, India, discusses the trends and dynamics of the Indian startup eco-system, including exits. India needs exits at this point, even if they’re relatively small exits.

Bootstrapping Decisively to $5M+ in Revenue: Mack Sundaram, CEO of RainmakerForce (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How did you get this off the ground? Mack Sundaram: Being in a sales role, I had the privilege of having worked with companies. I personally have to find ways to solve this problem of blackbox sales. I used to experiment with different techniques. I hit upon something that started working for me.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nitin Pachisia of Unshackled Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: If you have to make 500 micro-VC funds productive, there needs to be some of these segmentation and clear definition. Otherwise, nobody will find anybody. It’s going to be constantly hit or miss, or it’s going to be very inefficient. The information flow needs to get much more efficient. To your point that

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jason Lemkin of Storm Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Am I hearing that when you look back on EchoSign, you feel that you sold too early? Jason Lemkin: I think it was a lucrative and fair financial transaction. What I didn’t realize until I got into Adobe is that the team would accelerate after that. I didn’t realize that the team was

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April 4 – Rendezvous with Sramana Mitra in Menlo Park, CA

For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra in person, please join us for our weekly informal group meetups. If you are living in the San Francisco Bay Area or are just in town for a visit, we hope you will add these meetups to your calendar and join us. Pre-registration is required, REGISTER

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April 5 – 393rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 393rd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, April 5, 2018, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 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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