March 28 – 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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March 29 – 392nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 392nd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, March 29, 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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391st Roundtable Recording On March 22, 2018: With Ben Mathias, Vertex Ventures

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

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Periscope CEO, Harry Glaser (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do more use cases. I’d like to understand how your product is being used in other contexts. Harry Glaser: Another of my favorite customer is Crisis Text Line. They are first responders. Folks who are in personal crisis can text a trained professional who will go through that moment of personal crisis

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jason Stoffer of Maveron (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: My observation is the venture capital industry needs to really get a lot more savvy and sophisticated about the discipline of merchandising if it really wants to play in this B2C brand world. Especially in domains like fashion and design it’s all about merchandising and curation. Jason Stoffer: Look at Mickey Drexler. It’s

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Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Steven Aldrich, Chief Product Officer of GoDaddy (Part 3)

Steven Aldrich: We started to realize that our view of identity and digital identity needed to be expanded not just around the domain but we also needed to think about the phone number as a part of the identity. We then talked to customers, looked at the existing products in the market, and looked at

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Roundtable Recap: March 22 – Indian Startup Eco-system Needs Exits

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ben Mathias, Managing Partner at Vertex Ventures, India. The discussion spanned trends and dynamics of the Indian startup eco-system, including exits. India needs exits at this point, even if they’re relatively small exits. We’ve seen some deals happen in the market with Nutanix buying Minjar, and

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Periscope CEO, Harry Glaser (Part 1)

Harry says, there are nothing but open problems in his space, and highlights some of them! Read on to see what may warrant a new company. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Periscope. Harry Glaser: I’m the Co-Founder and CEO of Periscope Data. Periscope is about five

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