Roundtable Recap: May 10 – Not All Micro-VCs Are Chasing Unicorns

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Steve Beck, Managing Partner at Serra Ventures. Steve discussed his firm’s non-Unicorn investment thesis. Refreshing to hear. Isha Pay As for entrepreneur pitches, we started with Bama Venkatachalam from Fremont, California, pitching a cryptocurrency gateway for e-commerce companies to accept payments in all kinds of crypto

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Samir Addamine, Founder and Chairman of FollowAnalytics (Part 2)

Samir Addamine: We are the biggest player in Europe in this area. We don’t have the same kind of visibility yet in the US, but we’ve been accelerating. Last year was an amazing year for us in terms of revenue and deals closed. We hope to close at seven figures, which is quite unique in

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bryce Roberts of OATV, Indie.vc (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 Bryce Roberts was recorded in August 2016.  Bryce Roberts, Managing Director, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), and Founder, Indie.vc, discusses the issues with the venture capital financing model, and explored alternatives. Sramana Mitra: You have

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399th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 399th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, May 10, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

399th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 399th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, May 10, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Rao Papolu, CEO of Cavirin (Part 1)

The cyber security market is intensely rich in startup activity and equally rich in threats. This conversation explores some of the challenges of CISO’s face today. We will bring you some CISO interviews soon to extend this conversation. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Cavirin. Rao Papolu: I studied at

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Samir Addamine, Founder and Chairman of FollowAnalytics (Part 1)

Have you started thinking about explainable AI yet? Well, you should. Read on for more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as FollowAnalytics. Samir Addamine: I have an engineering degree. I studied in France where I was born and raised. I started my first company in 2005, which was

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Greg Sands of Costanoa Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I think this whole unicorn mania has been created by the sheer stupidity of the entrepreneurship media. They’re so driven by funding announcements. Every time somebody has a funding announcement, they run up lots of articles about the funding announcement. Entrepreneurs mistakenly believe that funding announcements are good. It’s not necessarily good. If

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