1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Navid Alipour of Analytics Ventures (Part 2)

Navid Alipour: Our LP’s said “We want you to start other companies that are applying artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning to clean structure data.” By applying this AI, you can make a prediction or you can detect something that doesn’t belong. By doing one of those things, you’re going to increase revenues, decrease

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Bootstrapping from Denmark: Camilla Ley Valentin, Co-Founder of Queue-It (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is the average size of each customer? What is an average deal size? I’m trying to understand your business. Is it a business that generates $2,000 or $200,000 per customer? Camilla Ley Valentin: What I can say is that our customers range. An example of a small case could be a university

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Navid Alipour of Analytics Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Navid Alipour was recorded in January 2019. Navid Alipour, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Analytics Ventures, talks about their AI-focused venture studio in San Diego. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Analytics Ventures and

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Bootstrapping from Denmark: Camilla Ley Valentin, Co-Founder of Queue-It (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Was your first customer from Denmark? Camilla Ley Valentin: Yes, it was. It was a government company and that was the first customer. It was a company called Nature Agency and they manage all the hunters in Denmark. The hunters have to register all the animals that they shoot in a complicated legacy

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Catching Up On Readings: IBM Think 2019

This feature from TechTarget covers the main highlights of this year’s edition of IBM Think held in San Francisco last week. The spotlight at the conference was on data and AI analytics. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bootstrapping from Denmark: Camilla Ley Valentin, Co-Founder of Queue-It (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How do you get things off the ground? Camilla Valentin: We made a business friend. All three of us had many years of business experience. We had some idea of what was needed. This was our first own startup. We found some good templates online that we applied to generating the business plan

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February 20 – 432nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 432nd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Wednesday, February 20, 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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431st Roundtable Recording on February 14, 2019: With Yash Hemaraj, Arka Venture Labs and BGV

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: