Sunday, May 6, 3pm – 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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May 10 – 399th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 399th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, May 10, 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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398th Roundtable Recording On May 3, 2018: With Jennifer Carolan, Reach Capital

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Guy Resheff of Grove Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How do you see unicorn mania in Israel? As a seed investor, you could get buried under later-stage liquidation preferences. How do you protect yourself? Guy Resheff: One thing that I would say that’s markedly different is that, in absolute terms, the number of unicorns generated in Israel is significantly smaller. That has

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Bootstrapping from Indiana: Passageways CEO Paroon Chadha (Part 2)

Paroon Chadha: You are never going to be surrounded by so many super smart and super open people in your life. When you’re at school, there are a lot of engineers and computer scientists. There are a lot of people who are good at math. You can pretty much come up with any idea and

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Roundtable Recap: May 3 – Spotlight on EdTech

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Jennifer Carolan, Co-founder and General Partner at Reach Capital, a venture firm with 100% focus on EdTech. The conversation was an excellent exploration of the state of the union in EdTech investments. Vpharmacist As for entrepreneur pitches, we spoke with Tamilvendan Rajaraman from Chennai, India, pitching

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Heidi Roizen of DFJ (Part 4)

Heidi Roizen: The point is to understand the terms and understand how they impact not only your return but the motivations of everyone else around the table. When you set up a situation where someone is going to make three times their money no matter what and they’re going to be the first money out,

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Guy Resheff of Grove Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: If you look at the last six months of your deal flow, could you synthesize some of the most interesting trends that you have observed? Guy Resheff: A common one is artificial intelligence. It’s everywhere. Sramana Mitra: SaaS for large markets is kind of over. Everything in SaaS right now is niche. Guy

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