Thursday, May 17, 5pm – 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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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With David Blumberg of Blumberg 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 David Blumberg, Blumberg Capital was recorded in September 2016.  David Blumberg, Founder and Managing Partner of Blumberg Capital, has been in the business for a long time, and we had a very interesting chat

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: William King, CEO of Zephyr Health (Part 1)

I first spoke with William for our Entrepreneur Journeys series in March 2015. This is a follow-up discussion on the company’s progress and extensive impact by harnessing data from a hundred different sources to help pharmaceutical companies across various use cases. Excellent insights! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by catching up a bit. We spoke sometime

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Catching Up On Readings: Flipkart-Walmart Deal

This feature from The Indian Express covers in detail the $16 billion acquisition of Flipkart by Walmart last week. It looks at the impact of the deal on the two companies as well as their rival Amazon and the online Indian marketplace. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Samir Addamine, Founder and Chairman of FollowAnalytics (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Is your largest adoption in retail? Samir Addamine: Retail and financial services are the biggest. Sramana Mitra: Mostly enterprise customers at this point? Samir Addamine: It’s enterprise only. Sramana Mitra: How many customers do you have?

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bryce Roberts of OATV, Indie.vc (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How are the entrepreneurs receiving this alternate thinking? Bryce Roberts: There’re two trains of thought. In the predominant Silicon Valley culture, the response tends to be, “Why would we do that?” They’re very indoctrinated into the idea of selling equity and getting on that successive round of funding to ratchet up the valuation.

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Rao Papolu, CEO of Cavirin (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: That’s good segue into another question that I want to end this conversation with. There are lots of reports coming out now that quantum computing is becoming more of a reality. Quantum computing in the hands of the hackers is an incredibly dangerous phenomenon. How do you see the world changing as that

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Samir Addamine, Founder and Chairman of FollowAnalytics (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Help me understand one thing here. Marketing automation is a very crowded field. Try to help me pinpoint where in that very crowded space you fit in. There are all kinds of things going in. There’s campaign management, email marketing. There’s Marketo. There’s Eloqua. There are all kinds of stuff. From your point

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