Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Drura Parrish, President of Xometry (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What are the new things that are getting designed and manufactured in America today? Drura Parrish: We’re still at the cutting edge of automotive and automotive components in electronics, hardware, and mechanical aerospace and all the supply chain that’s going into that.

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I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about Art and Culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of Art – a painting, a poem, a piece

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Harald Nieder of Redalpine Venture Partners (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: B2B versus B2C, what’s your comfort zone? Harald Nierde: We’re, in general, open. We don’t have a focus on either. So, we invest in both. If you look at the portfolio, we have both cases in there. We actually do like to have a mix in there.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Harald Nieder of Redalpine Venture Partners (Part 2)

Harald Nieder: The other thing that’s important is obviously, the network, in particular for the early-stage investing. Network is very important. Keep in mind that in geography, we’ve been active more than 15 years, which means that we’ve had a lot of time to build our network. For example, we’ve been connected in Berlin long

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Drura Parrish, President of Xometry (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What’s the geographical scope of your business? Drura Parrish: When you think about our geographic diversification, it follows along the pockets of industrial production in the United States. So why have suppliers concentrated around where planes are getting made? Why have suppliers concentrated around where automotive companies are assembling and making things? Likewise,

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440th Roundtable Recording on April 17, 2019: With Shripati Acharya, Prime Venture Partners

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Best of Bootstrapping: How Algo.ai CEO Amjad Hussain Bootstrapped using Services from Michigan

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. I am always thrilled to see great entrepreneurship in various parts of the world that are off-center. Well, Algo.ai CEO Amjad Hussain’s journey is a great one from Detroit. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Harald Nieder of Redalpine Venture Partners (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Harald Nieder was recorded in March 2019. Harald Nieder is a Partner at Redalpine Venture Partners, a European firm primarily focused on Germany and Switzerland. Sramana Mitra: So tell us about yourself

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