During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Krishna Srinivasan, Founding General Partner at LiveOak Venture Partners, a firm focused on investing in Texas. Great conversation! AlphaMERSPitching first, Sekhar DC from Bangalore, India, pitched AlphaMERS, a bootstrapped innovation company that is already profitable. BancalimentosThen, we had Johana Forero from Bogata, Colombia, pitching Bancalimentos, a
Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on each of those categories. Give us some examples of ventures that you have invested in that particularly stand out as great examples of leveraging Blockchain to address one or the other of your two categories. Brock Pierce: I started Blockchain Capital back in 2013. It was the first venture
The Economist recently did an article titled Why Startups Are Leaving Silicon Valley. The positive message in the article is that entrepreneurship has now spread around the world. Compelling ventures are getting built everywhere. Today, we put the spotlight on Illinois. First, a look at the Unicorns. We have to start with Groupon, one of
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Sramana Mitra: Let me do a thought experiment with you on this one. If this particular concept came to you from a domain expert, but it wasn’t Scott or somebody who had a track record of building a company but was a military veteran, would you still invest? Kelly Perdew: There are way more people
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Sramana Mitra: The bulk of the business is this one-time fee to buy the chart that you’re providing. Nick Shaw: Yes. Sramana Mitra: What do the 26 coaches do then? Nick Shaw: They do more detailed one-on-one coaching. Sramana Mitra: There is a subscription business that is more detailed one-on-one coaching. Nick Shaw: Yes. There
Sramana Mitra: Given that is your high level hypothesis, where are the investment opportunities for venture investment that you are particularly excited about? Brock Pierce: We’re about 10 years in where the internet was in the mid to late 90’s. Keep in mind that internet wasn’t useful until you had a sufficient amount of infrastructure.