1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Curtis Feeny of Silicon Valley Data 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 Curtis Feeny was recorded in April 2018. Curtis Feeny, Managing Director at Silicon Valley Data Capital, talks about his firm’s investment thesis around Big Data and Machine Learning. Sramana Mitra: Let’s get

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vivek Ladsariya of SineWave Ventures (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 Vivek Ladsariya was recorded in April 2018. Vivek Ladsariya, Partner at SineWave Ventures, talks about the firm’s investment thesis, as well as trends in the industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing

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Scaling to $10 Million: Humanity.com Founder Ryan Fyfe (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Humanity.com has operations in San Francisco, Pakistan, and Serbia. The founder lives in Panama. Yet another distributed software company that is scaling nicely. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what

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396th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Milos Sochor, Y Soft Ventures

Milos Sochor is Managing Partner at Y Soft Ventures, a firm in the Czech Republic. Fascinating conversation about how a small region is gradually becoming a powerhouse of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Catching Up On Readings: Startup Battlefield 2018

This feature from TechCrunch covers the winners of the Startup Battlefield at the Disrupt SF 2018 event held in San Francisco held recently. AI-enabled enterprise search engine Forethought was the winner of the $100,000 prize and the Disrupt cup. For this week’s posts, click on paragraph links.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nilanjana Bhowmik of Converge (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Do you invest only in the Boston area only? Nilanjana Bhowmik: We invest up and down the East Coast. The big tech hubs on the side are Boston, New York, and surprisingly Toronto. Sramana Mitra: Great. What are the highlights of your current portfolio? We are probably talking about Longworth as opposed to

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tim Guleri of Sierra Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Last question, are you chasing unicorns? Tim Guleri: No. That is something that I’m not a huge fan of. Ultimately, unicorn is an easy term for way late stage investors to say, “I’m going to invest in this company for this valuation.” I feel that that does a disservice to so much of

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September 27 – 416th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 416th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, September 27, 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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