1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dafina Toncheva of US Venture Partners (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s build on that and understand your geographical preferences. Are you investing only in Silicon Valley or are you investing more broadly? Dafina Toncheva: When it comes to cybersecurity, we like Israel a lot. It’s an area that we have been investing in for 20 years. Sramana Mitra: There are lots of great

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Patrick Mullane, Executive Director of HBX (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Could you switch gears and tell me what you see out there as open problems around which people could be starting new companies? Patrick Mullane: That’s a broad question. I see a lot of opportunities in the job I’m in that we don’t address and I don’t see anybody addressing. One is how

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alexander Ross of Illuminate Financial (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: These are banks in the UK? What kind of banks are we talking about? Alexander Ross: These are tier-one and tier-two European and US banks. What we find is that given that every company that speaks to us will likely get an introduction to one of our bank partners if they’re relevant or

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dafina Toncheva of US Venture Partners (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I don’t know if you have seen it on our blog. We have a Thought Leaders in Cyber Security series. Ray has actually been on it. He’s running a company these days. In that series, one of the questions that comes up a lot is, if you put yourself in the shoes of

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Patrick Mullane, Executive Director of HBX (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about some of the other trends that you see in this mode of delivering education. Are there international students who are just doing the certification and has nothing to do with applying for the full program? Patrick Mullane: Yes, for sure. Let me be clear. The number of people who use

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422nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Nihal Mehta, ENIAC Ventures

Nihal Mehta, Founding General Partner at ENIAC Ventures, provides a great set of insights into his definition of a full stack founding team. Either a set of co-founders who cover all the requisite skill-sets, or a solo founder who is a full-stack person – both configurations can work. Listen to the discussion for more color on the topic.

Roundtable Recap: November 20 – Spotlight on Digital Health Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Sara Sutton, Founder and CEO at FlexJobs, who explained her platform and its ability to connect job seekers looking for flexible work schedules with employers. We explored how the 1Mby1M community could use some of this for scaling companies with virtual teams. Mindpax.me As for the

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alexander Ross of Illuminate Financial (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Can we do some examples? Alexander Ross: Cloud Margin is a cloud-based capital management solution that I mentioned. It focuses on compliance, clearly, because it enables the end users to monitor transactions. Cost is also a factor. This solution is a multi-tenanted SaaS-based solution. It’s much cheaper to adopt as an organization and

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