1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rami Elkhatib of Acero Capital (Part 2)

Rami Elkhatib: We had been interested in the area of security, specifically application security. We found a fantastic technical team. We found the deep IP and the fantastic product. When we closed that Series A, we had a full product and a full technical team. I hope that illustrates where we tend to be a little

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Hasebroock at Dundee 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 Mark Hasebroock of Dundee Venture Capital was recorded in February 2018. Mark Hasebroock is Founder at Dundee Venture Capital, based in Omaha, Nebraska. The firm invests in the Midwest, likes small, capital-efficient deals and

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alan Chiu at XSeed (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 Alan Chiu of XSeed was recorded in February 2018. Alan Chiu is Partner at XSeed, a seed-focused venture fund based in Silicon Valley. Alan talks about the level of risk his firm is willing

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rami Elkhatib of Acero 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 Rami Elkhatib of Acero Capital was recorded in February 2018.  Rami Elkhatib, General Partner at Acero Capital, talks about his investments in companies that require a longer development cycle. As you know, 1Mby1M often

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Catching Up On Readings: Black Hat 2018

This feature from Cyber Security Hub covers the highlights of the 21st Black Hat USA, one of the world’s largest information security events, held in Las Vegas last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Online Education: O’Reilly Media Chief Content Officer Karen Hebert-Maccaro (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: LinkedIn uses their influencers very well in bolstering the social network aspect. They really harness the expertise in the community to get a lot of free content that they have basically monetized themselves. Karen Hebert-Maccaro: At O’Reilly, we’re talking about socialization and providing social learning in a slightly different way. One of the

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: O’Reilly Media Chief Content Officer Karen Hebert-Maccaro (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: The way you’re set up in terms of your platform, is it an all-you-can-eat subscription model such that this performance-based learning is something people can access as they go? Karen Hebert-Maccaro: We are a subscription-based SaaS model. You or your organization subscribes and you have access to the entire platform 24/7 on your

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nate Redmond of Alpha Edison (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Comment on unicorn mania for me. We went a little bit crazy with this concept of unicorns. There’s just this very unfortunate twist that the industry has taken. How do you parse unicorn mania? Nate Redmond: Unicorn status, if you will, became a marker of success that obviously is artificial in many ways.

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