Catching Up On Readings: WEF Davos 2019

This feature from MoneyControl presents the highlights of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2019 held in Davos last week. It summarizes 33 ways that Davos 2019 impacted the world. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Andrew Grauer, CEO of Course Hero (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: It’s a very interesting topic that you bring up. There are some observations I have on that. One is that some of the rock star teachers at top universities have their very popular courses on edX and Coursera. Then you have platforms like what LinkedIn is doing. Soon after they named me one

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January 31 – 430th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 430th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, January 31, 2019, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/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

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Best of Bootstrapping: How Can You Play this Low-Probability Game Intelligently?

Let me start with a quote from Marc Andreessen: “At our venture capital firm we only invest in a sort of Silicon Valley–style tech. We see 3,000 inbound deals a year. And those are inbound and coming through our referral network, so those are sort of prequalified. We can do maybe 15 or 20 investments

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429th Roundtable Recording on January 24, 2019: With Preeti Rathi, Ignition Partners

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Andrew Grauer, CEO of Course Hero (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to switch the line of questioning from what you are doing to more of the industry trend question. What open problems do you see in the industry right now where a new entrepreneur would be starting a company today? Instead of being 12 years into Course Hero, if you were starting

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Roundtable Recap: January 24 – The Changing Dynamics of Seed Investing

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Preeti Rathi, Partner at Ignition Partners. We discussed the changing dynamics of Seed Investing. Kitchens On Rent As for pitches, first up, we had Mohit Walia, from Noida, India, pitch Kitchens On Rent, an innovative concept for leveraging spare capacity in restaurant kitchens. Mohit is a

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With George Spencer of Seyen Capital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: One of the options that we have to keep in mind is that the vast majority of strategic acquisitions happen in the $50 million to $60 million price point. For everybody concerned about making money with a $50 million exit, you have to build the company in that $5 million to $10 million

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