Catching Up On Readings: Disrupt SF 2019

This feature from TechCrunch covers the result of the Startup Battlefield competition held in San Francisco last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Building Two Capital-Efficient AI Companies: Arijit Sengupta, Founder and CEO of Aible and BeyondCore (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What was your lock-in period? Did you go to Salesforce? Arijit Sengupta: I had a three-year resting and two-year non-compete clause. I did my two years. Salesforce is a wonderful place. Even if you leave Salesforce, you’re part of the family. I’m an entrepreneur at heart. I wanted to solve this problem and

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Building Two Capital-Efficient AI Companies: Arijit Sengupta, Founder and CEO of Aible and BeyondCore (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The data sources are the ERP systems of these customers? Arijit Sengupta: Initially, [the data sources were] CSV files. Eventually, we built connectors to SAP and Salesforce. At the time of funding, we were still taking CSV files. Not all of the features existed at that time. What was important for them was

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October 10 – 460th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 460th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, October 10, 2019, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 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

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459th Roundtable Recording on October 3, 2019

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Bristol Gate Capital Partners CEO Richard Hamm (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: If they’re significantly assisted by technology, they need to be trained to use that technology and do their job of helping investors as opposed to making those decisions themselves, which involves a different level of financial understanding. Richard Hamm: As I pointed out, Digit is doing exactly that. They’re trying to develop it

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Best of Bootstrapping: PrecisionLender CEO Bootstraps to Over $10M from North Carolina

CEO Carl Ryden and his co-founders have bootstrapped Precision Lender to over $10 million from North Carolina. This is a superb story, including how the company has formulated an AI agent, Andi. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in

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Roundtable Recap: October 3 – Pricing Model Drives Scalability

During this week’s roundtable, we had three entrepreneurs pitch. Gangabiz Up first, we had Debopriyo Sanyal from Kolkata, India, pitch Gangabiz. Debopriyo needs to spend time on the basics of business building. Cellfie.me Next, Rob Wotring from Palo Alto, California, pitched Cellfie.me, a saliva testing for gut health business that looks quite interesting.