Building a Fast Growth, Cutting-Edge Insurance Brokerage: Karn Saroya, CEO of Cover (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: There’s some reason why you were drawn to insurance? Why insurance? Karn Saroya: When we were running Stylekick, we worked with some insurance brokers. One day, I walked into one of their offices. This was in Toronto in the financial district. They had multiple floors wedged between investment banks, consulting firms, and private

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ankit Jain of Gradient Ventures (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: It’s fascinating, isn’t it? It’s a really exciting field. Are you chasing unicorns? Ankit Jain: Given that we’re investing $1 million to $10 million, we’re looking at a lot of companies that we hope will show their true market potential. We hope some of them get to that stage. We strongly believe many

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Neil Vaswani, CEO of Corestream (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How did you get it off the ground? You said you raised money right away? Neil Vaswani: Yes. My co-founder and I wrote up a two-page executive summary. We started spamming VCs. We got some calls back. Sramana Mitra: What year was this happening? Neil Vaswani: This is 2005. Not exactly the best

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Building a Fast Growth, Cutting-Edge Insurance Brokerage: Karn Saroya, CEO of Cover (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You got an offer to join YCombinator. What was your acqui-hire deal? Was it an earn-out deal? Karn Saroya: We didn’t completely vest. It was okay with us largely because we had quite a bit of conviction around what we wanted to do next. The team was most comfortable building products at the

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ankit Jain of Gradient Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In the case of Algorithmia, what kinds of use cases are they? It sounds like it’s a horizontal platform that could be applied to all sorts of use cases. You said it’s a Fortune 500 target market. What kinds of use cases are they going after? Ankit Jain: The simplest way to describe

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Thursday, October 25 – 420th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 420th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, October 25, 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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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Neil Vaswani, CEO of Corestream (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year did you start Corestream? Neil Vaswani: In 2005, I realized that there was this inefficiency in the market. Then in 2005, I sought capital. In 2006, we closed capital. In 2008, we went to market. Sramana Mitra: Talk to me a little bit about what was the idea. What prompted Corestream? Neil

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Building a Fast Growth, Cutting-Edge Insurance Brokerage: Karn Saroya, CEO of Cover (Part 2)

Karn Saroya: Ultimately, we were acqui-hired at Shopify. We got to build all sorts of interesting things. We worked on the Facebook Messenger chat bot for commerce. We got to work with Toby a little bit. Having been there for a couple of months, we still had the itch. We decided that we wanted to

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