1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Stone of Sierra Wasatch Capital (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. There’s one more? Susan Stone: There’s one more. The last one is Canvas, which is based in New York. Canvas is the very first company that measures emotions analytically. I’m very proud of the founder Jared Feldman for really opening up that market for emotional measurement.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Stone of Sierra Wasatch Capital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: But I think Mighty Network is not just for entrepreneurs. I’ve talked to Gina about this. It’s also about educators who want to run their own courses and they want conversations around certain topics that they are experts in. There’re are many use cases. Susan Stone: You don’t have to use it to

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Sramana Mitra: Can you walk me through a bit of a use case? For example, I’m just going to use our own video content as proxy. We have a YouTube channel, that is the 1M1M roundtable channel that’s full of entrepreneurship-related content. If I were to use your technology to distribute this content, what are

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Sramana Mitra: We run a lot of intra-preneurship programs. Oracle’s intrapreneurship program is on 1Mby1M. We are very familiar with all that. Andrew Rose: You know it even better than most. It creates its own opportunities and its own challenges. You’re not necessarily going out and raising money, but you still have all the other

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Sramana Mitra: Interesting and quite different from a lot of the perspective that we see because there is a huge question mark around the media industry’s evolution. I’m quite involved in a bunch of things. We have at least one partnership with a large media company. All that aside, I’d like to understand how many

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