Sramana Mitra: What do you think of this particular phenomenon? We’re in the beginning of 2018. Lots of stuff have already been built. Nowadays, there aren’t so many wide open opportunities with multi-billion TAM’s but there are many niche opportunities. Some of these businesses need to be built for very small amounts of capital –
Sramana Mitra: That is a very reasonable strategy for Indiegogo. You mentioned that Indiegogo’s equity crowdfunding platform has been successful. What are the trends? What kind of ventures are gaining traction in the equity funding world of Indiegogo? John Frankel: A lot of the things they’ve been going for are what you might consider lower
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Kelly Perdew, Co-founder and Managing General Partner at Moonshots Capital, a firm that has a unique investment thesis of supporting military veterans. Very interesting insights. VirtuBox As for entrepreneur pitches, we started with Prakash Rastogi from Noida, India, pitching VirtuBox, a content management platform that already
Sramana Mitra: It also gives you a flavor of how good a product it is. Is the product really meeting the needs of the customers? I think churn is a very good indicator of that. Mackey Craven: Coming back again, it really doesn’t have to do with revenue scale. It has to do with validating
Sramana Mitra: What have you invested in? Give us an example or two and tell us why you chose to invest in those. Laurel Touby: We are about to close the first close of our fund. We’re now looking at investment for that fund. In my angel investing, you can see some indicators of some
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Sramana Mitra: Let’s look at 2017. This is our last roundtable. We are about to close the year off. You have, I imagine, seen thousands of deals this year. What are the trends in your deal flow? John Frankel: We’ve been leaning heavily into AI, cyber security, robotics, FinTech. We’re seeing a ton of opportunities