419th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ray Chan, K5 Ventures

Ray Chan, Managing Director at K5 Ventures and Tech Coast Angels, shares his views on the segments his firms invest in.

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418th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Shuly Galili, UpWest Labs

Shuly Galili, Founding Partner, UpWest Labs, talks to us about pre-seed and seed investments in the Israel – Silicon Valley corridor.

Building a VC-Funded B2C CRM Company From Virginia: Zaius Founder and CTO Spencer Pingry (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is the distribution? Is Boston engineering? Spencer Pingry: The Engineering team is split between Boston and Virginia. It’s pretty even right now. All of our sales and marketing and CS employees are in Boston. Sramana Mitra: You now started getting your team more organized in terms of functionality. What happens next? Spencer Pingry:

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Utsav Somani of AngelList India (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What else is interesting in your structure that is worth discussing that I have not discussed with you yet? Utsav Somani: I think you’ve pretty much covered everything. There are some really good companies coming out of India. Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about them? Utsav Somani: It’s too early to be disclosing

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419th Roundtable Recording on October 17, 2018: With Ray Chan, K5 Ventures

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Marc Alacqua CEO and Steve Davis CTO of Signafire (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: It’s not usually easy to sell pure horizontal. In the world of complex queries, what is missing? If you look at the universe, what are the specific things or capabilities that are missing from the ecosystem that would help you and help your customers, and that could be opportunities for new companies to

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Building a VC-Funded B2C CRM Company From Virginia: Zaius Founder and CTO Spencer Pingry (Part 4)

Spencer Pingry: In early 2016, we decided to launch a freemium product. We offered our entire product for free primarily to get as many interactions with as many customers as possible in the shortest time possible. For about five to six months, we hired some new go-to market people. We did a ton of SEM and

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Roundtable Recap: October 17 – Cool Companies, Exciting Opportunities

During this week’s roundtable, we had as a guest Ray Chan, Managing Director at K5 Ventures and Tech Coast Angels shared his views on the segments his firms invest in. Locol As for pitching, we had Sriniva Nag Mandali from Hyderabad, India, pitched Locol, a flexible fleet access solution for tour operators and municipal governments

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