September 19 – 415th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 415th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Wednesday, September 19, 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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414th Roundtable Recording on September 13, 2018

In case you missed it, you can listen here:

Building Fat Startups: Delphix CEO Jedidiah Yueh (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: My next question is around customer acquisition. It sounds like this is all direct selling. Jedidiah Yueh: Yes. We work with channel partners, but the majority has been direct enterprise software sales. Sramana Mitra: Are there any nuances in that journey with Delphix starting in the late 2000’s as it moves along? Are

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Clint Chao of Moment Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How do you process the current investment climate where capital is moving further and further upstream? How does a seed investor mitigate the Series A gap? Clint Chao: It’s a great question. It’s clear that your traditional Series A investors have raised the hurdle, if you will, on what qualifies as a viable

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ben Mathias of Vertex Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: We are in 2018. A lot of stuff has already been built. Relative to the amount of capital that is available in the market, there are 700 plus micro-VCs in the market right now. There is a huge number of entrepreneurs who are starting companies. We can’t expect that every single venture out

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Building Fat Startups: Delphix CEO Jedidiah Yueh (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You don’t have a Steve Wozniak that you’re paired up with throughout your journey? Jedidiah Yueh: I had co-founders who were technical. Co-founders come at different levels. Some of them didn’t stay with the companies. I always found technical co-founders to help. Sramana Mitra: It’s more incidental and not a soulmate kind of

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Roundtable Recap: September 13 – Three Cool Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had three interesting entrepreneur pitches. VedaJunctionFirst up, we had Rahul Sharma, from Dallas, Texas and Ludhiana, India, pitching VedaJunction, an AI-based personalized learning platform and marketplace. Very cool idea. PrackrNext Rahul G from from Bangalore, India, pitched Prackr, a CRM workflow management software that he will most likely be positioning

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Clint Chao of Moment Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How big is the fund? Clint Chao: Our first fund is a small fund. It’s a $10 million fund. We launched that officially in 2015. We did a first close on our second fund late last year. That’s a $50 million fund. Our initial investment in fund one averaged around $250,000. We reserve

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