Catching Up On Readings: Unicorn IPOs 2019

This feature from PitchBook analyses the IPO frenzy from unicorns. So far, there have been some hits and some misses. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sateesh Andra of Endiya Partners (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start talking about Endiya Partners. How big is the fund? What is your preference in terms of where you want to invest in? What kind of stage? Sateesh Andra: Our fund is around 175 crores. We’ve made 12 investments. Sramana Mitra: That’s about $35 million. Sateesh Andra: Yes. In the early days,

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Dispel CEO Ethan Schmertzler (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Are you selling directly to enterprise CIO’s or are you an OEM into a Cisco, for instance? How do you go to market? Ethan Schmertzler: We, almost always, go directly to CIO’s and CTO’s of large institutions because they’re trying to make users’ lives easier and more efficient, but they confront the security

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sateesh Andra of Endiya 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 Sateesh Andra was recorded in April 2019. Endiya Partners’ founding team – Managing Director Sateesh Andra, Managing Director Dr. Ramesh Byrapaneni, Director Abhishek Srivastava – talk about their Seed and Pre-Series A

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Dispel CEO Ethan Schmertzler (Part 1)

In this interview, Ethan discusses Moving Target Networks, a cyber defense technology. The company does about $10M ARR. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Dispel. Ethan Schmertzler: I’m the CEO and one of the Co-Founders of Dispel, which is  a cyber security and cyber defense firm that

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bill Bice of Verge Fund (Part 5)

Bill Bice: If you have a business and you want help in growing, there are literally thousands of options out there. It’s another way of saying that nobody has gotten great at doing it. That’s the problem that we’re tackling. We’ve built a marketing automation system that automates whole industries instead of being designed to

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Best of Bootstrapping: Death by Overfunding

Funding = Success, right? I wish it did. But entrepreneurial tracks are littered with carcasses of dead startups that were very well funded, some to the tune of hundreds of millions. As a case in point, watch this 2 minutes 31 second video: Death By Overfunding.

Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Ethan McAfee, CEO of Amify (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The big problem with the Shopify stock is the threat from Amazon. It has had a very good run because the trend is towards massive growth in ecommerce. Shopify has benefited from that. Furthermore, there’s been a massive shift from brick-and-mortar to e-commerce from a small merchant point of view. Instead of setting

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