Successful Pivots: Anthony Ferry, CEO of PriceSpider (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Help me understand one thing from a business-building point of view. You have about 500 companies that are using the Where To Buy solution. All these other products that you have come up with, to what extent are these products up-sells into those customers bases? Anthony Ferry: Every single one of them. As

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Catching Up On Readings: SXSW 2018 Gaming Awards

The 25th South by Southwest interactive festival was held in Austin, Texas last week. This feature from IGN looks at the winners of the gaming awards. Nintendo best-seller The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and upstart multiplayer phenom PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS were this year’s big winners. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Raj Singh of Singh Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What do you see in the deal flow? We are in the end of 2017. In the last three months, what trends have you spotted? Raj Singh: To be very honest, the deal flow is slowing down towards the end of the year, but we still see a lot of the P2P model.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With John Dougery of Inventus Capital (Part 2)

John Dougery: There are many opportunities and efficiencies in India to build world-class products for business customers out of India. Our focus was, and continues to be, both consumer consumption in India and also business consumption both in India and globally. About half our companies are business software companies with an increasingly heavy dose of

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Successful Pivots: Anthony Ferry, CEO of PriceSpider (Part 5)

Anthony Ferry: The veer off to the B2C was because we saw an opportunity where there were a lot of solutions, and we thought that we had better data. It also was a much larger market if we were to succeed. You’re talking about your customers being monetized in a grander scale having millions of

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Raj Singh of Singh Ventures (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 Raj Singh was recorded in September 2016.  Raj Singh, Founder and Executive Director at Singh Ventures, offers a window into his firm’s investment thesis. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about your investing focus. How big

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With John Dougery of Inventus Capital (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 John Dougery was recorded in May 2016.  John Dougery, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Inventus Capital, a fund that is one of the earliest players in the Silicon Valley – India corridor, discusses his

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March 21 – 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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