Bootstrapping to $13 Million from the UK: David Lloyd, CEO of The Intern Group (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: 2011 was when you started? David Lloyd: January 2011. Sramana Mitra: What were the circumstances? What was going on in the industry? What was going on in your own personal life? What was the idea that came out of both factors? David Lloyd: I was working on the trading floor in Merrill Lynch

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Hussein Kanji of Hoxton Ventures (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: India is getting back into the more fundamentals-driven model which I thought was always going to be the case. There was just a period where people got sidetracked. I think India is going to be more like Europe going forward. It’s only here in Silicon Valley that we see some appetite for funding

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With William Hsu of Mucker 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 William Hsu of Mucker Capital was recorded in January 2018.  William Hsu is the Co-founder and Partner at Mucker Capital, a Los Angeles-based fund that invests largely outside Silicon Valley and follows a more

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Thursday, June 28 – 404th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 404th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, June 28, 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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Bootstrapping to $13 Million from the UK: David Lloyd, CEO of The Intern Group (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. I am very bullish about market opportunities that are large enough to build sizable businesses but not large enough such that VCs end up funding numerous competing companies. This case study shows you how a niche player with a $150

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Hussein Kanji of Hoxton Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I think the Indian startup ecosystem is much larger than Europe right now. Hussein Kanji: It is, but when you look at the global unicorns and where they’re coming from, about 50% of them are from the US, about 30% are from China, 4% from India, 1% from Israel, and 15% from Europe.

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194th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Biplab Adhya and Venu Pemmaraju, Wipro Ventures

Biplab Adhya and Venu Pemmaraju, Co-Heads of Wipro Ventures.

8 Investors Discuss Pre-Seed, Post-Seed, and Series A Financing via the Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum

What is the difference between pre-seed, post-seed and pre-Series A? This is not so simple anymore to understand. For entrepreneurs who are seeking financing for the first time, it’s not easy to understand where they fit in. There is a lot of competition to get into some of the deals for Series A (and Series

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