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Sramana Mitra: Interesting. How many customers do these MSPs typically cater to? Fred Voccola: It depends. A typical profile of a manager service provider starts with an individual. They work at a large company in the IT department. At some point in time, they got laid off or they got tired of their boss. Usually,
Sramana Mitra: That point that you made about seed capital being abundant and seed funding being abundant, and Series A becoming an issue is huge. The numbers are 50,000 to 70,000 seed financing a year, and Series A is only about 1,500. There is a huge drop off that is happening. We don’t really have
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Devdutt Yellurkar, General Partner at CRV, who discussed his investment principles. It was an excellent discussion! Elastic Storage Solutions As for entrepreneur pitches, we started with Udo Neustadter from Ottawa, Canada, pitching Elastic Storage Solutions, a company addressing the ballooning storage needs of the digital universe.
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Sramana Mitra: Are there dynamics that are different from geography to geography? You said you’re catering to 35,000 MSPs around the world. Is there anything that is different? Fred Voccola: That’s a fantastic question. Your audience is global I’m assuming. Sramana Mitra: It is global. We know a lot about the dynamics of small businesses