1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ashmeet Sidana of Engineering Capital (Part 4)

Ashmeet Sidana: There’s great wisdom in what you’re saying. It is not just something that entrepreneurs should think about doing. You are required to say no to money on the path to success. Every company that is successful, at some point, says no to large amounts of money along the way. Here’s the way I

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Cindy Padnos of Illuminate Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I have a specific question that relates to our community. We have a global base of entrepreneurs. Very often, entrepreneurs have their development teams elsewhere, whether it’s India, Eastern Europe, or other parts of Europe, but they’re aware of the fact that if they’re going for enterprise customers, North American customers are the

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ashish Gupta of Helion Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Especially for companies coming out of India who sell using inside sales either into the large enterprises or SMB, the SMB market has a lot of headroom in terms of the next 5 to 15 years. That is a market where there is a lot of technology going in. It completely aligns with

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ashmeet Sidana of Engineering Capital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The public market, though, is not in a bubble. The public market is reasonably sane these days. Most of these companies who are getting these ridiculous private market valuations would not be able to go public because they don’t have the numbers to go public. Ashmeet Sidana: I agree completely. It’s on a

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Catching Up On Readings: GDPR

This feature from Digiday analyses the winners and losers in the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation’s on May 25. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Cindy Padnos of Illuminate Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s flip that question around. Now that you have been in this business for a while and you have an investment thesis, what are you looking for? Can you pinpoint where do you want to invest in? What kind of industry trends and segments of the B2B space are of particular interest to

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ashish Gupta of Helion Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: It is also an evolution. This was not the case some time back. Startups had a very hard time attracting talent. That has changed. It’s become sexy and cool to work for startups in India. That’s a very good development. Ashish Gupta: You’re absolutely right. Sexy is the word. In fact, I recently

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ashmeet Sidana of Engineering Capital (Part 2)

Ashmeet Sidana: The important thing to keep in mind is that building a startup is an evolution that occurs from the concept of an idea all the way to when they have revenue. At some point, they leave that company, which can be a journey of 5 to 15 years. Financing events are simply events

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