193rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Alexander Ross, Illuminate Financial

Alexander Ross, Founder at Illuminate Financial, talks about his firm’s FinTech investment thesis.

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: TrueCommerce CEO, Ross Elliott (Part 1)

Very interesting interview on how B2B e-commerce is evolving both disintermediation and empowering of intermediaries to be more effective. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Unified Commerce. Ross Elliott: I am one of the founders and President of a company called TrueCommerce. We are a hundred-million dollar provider of B2B

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Catching Up On Readings: RISE 2018

This feature from TheNewsLens covers the highlights of Asia’s largest startup conference RISE  held in Hong Kong last week. It featured about 750 startups including Vietnamese trucking company LOGIVAN that won the startup battle PITCH 2018. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Andrew Romans of Rubicon Venture Capital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Are you into B2B? Andrew Romans: We’re probably about 70% enterprise and 30% consumer. On enterprise, we’re more likely to go in very early. With consumer, when something comes to us from our network, we look for very strong unit economics where the CAC to LTV ratio is very impressive. We need to

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Fred Voccola, CEO of Kaseya (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Yes, but that’s still infrastructure. I’m wondering how the application-level technology is going to make it out to the nodes. Fred Voccola: That’s a very vertical question. If I’m an insurance broker, and I have 10 sales people in my office and two underwriters. I’m not only a broker but I’m also taking

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Andrew Romans of Rubicon Venture Capital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How big is the fund? Andrew Romans: We’re investing out of a $50 million fund that has a hard cap of a hundred. We’re already actively making investments. For your audience, we’re actively looking for deal flow. If the company has not raised at least a million dollars of outside non-founder funding capital,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Fred Voccola, CEO of Kaseya (Part 6)

Fred Voccola: It’s important for MSPs and companies like Kaseya that provide the platform for MSPs to be constantly looking at the platform that they’re operating on and making sure that the managed services they offer are delivering the value that these capabilities can have. Let’s talk about cloud. Office365 is a SaaS application that

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Andrew Romans of Rubicon Venture 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 Andrew Romans of Rubicon Venture Capital was recorded in January 2018.  Andrew Romans is General Partner of Rubicon Venture Capital. Our discussion includes an interesting segment on ICOs. Sramana Mitra: Let’s get acquainted. What

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