Catching Up On Readings: Black Friday 2019

This feature from Reuters looks at how online sales surged close to 20% on Black Friday while shopper traffic at retail stores declined. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Colors: Red Barn in the Snow, New England

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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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping to Y Combinator and $10 Million Series A

UpKeep Maintenance Management CEO Ryan Chan took a hobby project that he bootstrapped with a paycheck and managed to get into Y Combinator. From there, he raised a $10 million Series A from a top-tier Silicon Valley firm, Emergence Capital. Excellent execution thus far. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start from the very beginning of your journey.

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Roundtable Recap: November 27 – Fundamentals-Focused Venture Capital

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners. Nexus is a fundamentals focused firm that aligns with the 1Mby1M philosophy. Jishnu took us through several examples of how the firm is thinking about investing in startups. Excellent conversation. Boozimba Up first, we had Shubhojyoti Ganguly from

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Politics at Dinner Parties in 2020

We have a lot of dinner parties.  Our circle of friends is quite broad and all political views are represented in our midst. Far right. Far left. And everything in between.  Diversity of political views, it seems, is a difficult dynamic to manage in social groups. We’ve experienced people leaving the table upset, even storming

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467th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 467th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Wednesday, November 27, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Checkout.com Keeps its Growth Targets in Check

According to a Valuates report, the global payments market is expected to grow 8% annually over the next few years to $2 trillion by 2025. The market is dotted by several financial services institutions as well as dedicated payments processing firms such as Adyen, PayPal, and others. London-based Checkout.com is a smaller player that is

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Literati Reading List

In 2016, I started a literary group focused on serious literary works. Here is the list of books for our Caravanserai Literati.