August 7 – Rendezvous Meetup 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 and 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,

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August 2 – 409th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 409th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, August 2, 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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408th Roundtable Recording On July 26, 2018

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Corey Schmid of Seven Peaks Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You emphasized geography greatly. Pacific Northwest is the sweet spot of the fund. You don’t invest outside? Corey Schmid: We do. We call it the Mountain West. One of our newest deals is out of Phoenix. They’re in the no-password security space. Majority of our deals are in Oregon and Seattle. We have

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Greg Borchardt of Caerus Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to ask you a slightly different question. Given what you are doing, it sounds like there must be tons and tons of niche use cases out there of your model. We’re in 2018. There’s a ton of stuff that have already been built. Some of these use cases are not necessarily

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Roundtable Recap: July 26 – Wonderful Social Impact Projects

During this week’s roundtable, we had several wonderful social impact projects. HumaniqWe started with Andrey Gidaspov, pitching London and Luxembourg-based Humaniq, a mobile banking project catering to African unbanked consumers. They already have 400,000 users. The compnay has raised $5 million in an ICO already.

5 VCs Discuss Sourcing Startup Ventures via the Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum

Startup financing is not a one-way street. While entrepreneurs are looking for the right investors to fund their startups, VCs are also looking for the right startups to fund. Yet the process of finding the right startups to fund varies from investor to investor. To learn more about the role that experience and interests play

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Corey Schmid of Seven Peaks Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this series. The following interview with Corey Schmid of Seven Peaks Ventures was recorded in February 2018. Corey Schmid is General Partner at Seven Peak Ventures, a firm with a focus on the Pacific Northwest. Sramana Mitra: Tell us

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