1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Daniel Keiper-Knorr of Speedinvest (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 Daniel Keiper-Knorr was recorded in January 2019. Daniel Keiper-Knorr is Founder and General Partner at Speedinvest, a venture firm based in Vienna. It’s great to see exciting energy and activity in Vienna,

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Frank Malek of Impacteo (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 Frank Malek was recorded in January 2019. Frank Malek is General Partner at Impacteo, an impact investment fund that invests in companies in the US and in Europe. This includes companies in

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Catching Up On Readings: MWC 2019

This feature from TechCrunch covers the highlights of the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona last week. Notable trends included 5G handsets, foldable displays, AR/VR, and security. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. Talk to me a bit about doing this in Tucson, Arizona. What are the dynamics? What is the community like and to what extent are you leveraging that community’s pros and cons? Joshua Strebel: In the early days, we were based in Phoenix first. We moved to Tucson about four years ago.

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Brock Blake, CEO of Lendio (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I’ll tell you from my point of view because in 1Mby1M, we’re trying to get entrepreneurs to be disciplined, scalable, and be able to do more things. If you’re going to go apply for a loan, keeping your QuickBooks up to date is an important piece of the housekeeping. Brock Blake: Yes, no

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Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 4)

Joshua Strebel: We really enjoy those complex, harder, and out-of-the-normal WordPress workflow cases. There’s also this site called bringatrailer.com. These are a couple of entrepreneurs that probably invite you for one of these interviews. They started with a little online auto auction site and now they’ve gone on to become one of the premier private

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Colors: Stimulating the Renaissance Mind

I’m publishing a new 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

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March 7 – 434th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 434th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, March 7, 2019, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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 questions. Others

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