Catching Up On Readings: Gartner Eye on Innovation Award 2018

This report from Gartner looks at the winners and finalists of the 2018 Gartner Eye on Innovation Award for financial services in Asia Pacific selected during the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2018 held last week on the Gold Coast, Australia. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Milos Sochor of Y Soft Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Capital-efficient company building that goes straight into acquisition is a very good model for entrepreneurs, especially entrepreneurs doing it for the first time. I see no problem at all with that model. I think it’s a great model. Milos Sochor: I hope we play a big role. Like I said, Y Soft has

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Milos Sochor of Y Soft Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I have a couple of questions on this one. What is the competitive landscape of something like this when you’re investing in something like this in your local geography? Milos Sochor: They’re often mistaken with companies that provide Bluetooth and RFID technologies. I would move those more into the consumer space. Savio provides

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ravi Mohan of Shasta Ventures (Part 6)

Ravi Mohan: The last company is a company called Analpan. Anaplan is really taking Excel and putting it in the cloud so businesses can plan better and really model any type of business problem. How do I do my financial plans for the year? How do I do my workforce plans for the year? They’ve

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Bootstrapping with Paycheck to $15 Million from Tennessee: Gene Caballero, CEO of GreenPal (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How big a company do you think you can build? Obviously, you probably have a sense of the total market that you can access. What is the size of that market? Gene Caballero: The landscaping industry is about a $9 billion a year industry. Our TAM is almost limitless. In 2019, we want

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Milos Sochor of Y Soft Ventures (Part 2)

Milos Sochor: What I just said might sound pretty big, but it’s not. By US standards, it’s a small venture fund. We started the first one with only $4 million. We have invested in five companies. We are able to do more with less money in this part of the world because of very favorable

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November 8 – 422nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 421st FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, November 8, 2018, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/9:30 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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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ravi Mohan of Shasta Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: One of my observations is, if you’re doing a pure logistics play, it’s getting harder and harder even in niche e-commerce. Amazon is so comprehensive. The big categories are all taken. The way to differentiate is with new branded products. What you are layering on to that is the notion of repeat purchase

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