1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nnamdi Okike of 645 Ventures (Part 2)

Nnamdi Okike: We look at the round after that. What we are looking for are companies that typically have built an early product and have some early traction. If it’s software selling to small businesses, maybe they have 10 early customers. These are companies that don’t have a lot of revenue. Usually when we come

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452nd Roundtable Recording on August 1, 2019: With Sean Dawes, Modded Euros

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ganes Kesari, Cofounder & Chief Decision Scientist of Gramener (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You don’t use off-the-shelf visualization tools like Tableau or FusionCharts? There’s a whole bunch of visualization capabilities available. You don’t use any of that. You do everything from scratch. Ganes Kesari: That’s right. We don’t use the official product. The approach we follow is more programmatic. Our platform is built on Python and

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Best of Bootstrapping: SproutLoud CEO Bootstraps to $30 Million from Florida

Jared Shusterman bootstrapped his company with his bar mitzvah money. Read his wonderful story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Jared Shusterman: I was born in Miami, Florida. I’m one of the few South Florida natives.

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Roundtable Recap: August 1 – A Conversation on Niche E-commerce Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had Sean Dawes, Co-founder at Modded Euros, as our guest. We discussed the state of the union in niche e-commerce startups in the shadow of Amazon’s dominance. BetterPT As for the pitches, up first we had Greg Peters from New York, NY, present BetterPT, a SaaS company catering to hospitals

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nnamdi Okike of 645 Ventures (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 Nnamdi Okike was recorded in June 2019. Nnamdi Okike is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at 645 Ventures. We have an excellent conversation about trends and his firm’s investment thesis. Sramana Mitra: Tell

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ganes Kesari, Cofounder & Chief Decision Scientist of Gramener (Part 2)

Ganes Kesari: The final aspect is the storytelling. There can be great insights from analytics, but unless it’s used by the organization, it is a waste. That’s where we bring in a data visualization and storytelling layer to convert all of these insights into interactive stories. That’s consumed by all the teams – product, marketing,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mark Geene, CEO of Cloud Elements (Part 3)

Mark Geene: We don’t do a point-to-point mapping structure. We give companies the ability to define a data structure, create a virtual representation of that, and make them all look the same. The benefit of that is, instead of doing all these point-to-point mapping, you’re now always dealing with one common model. We help them

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