May 8 – Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later Discussion

Startup funding is a low probability game. LESS than 1% GET funding. Over 99% get rejected. Entrepreneurs go to VCs like beggars. Is there a better way?

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Harald Nieder of Redalpine Venture Partners (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Can you double-click down within the geography? How do you go about finding these teams? Harald Nieder: You have to have a lot of tools available if you have a certain topic that you’re looking after. If you already know what you’re looking after, it’s relatively easy to go out with the databases

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How Will Netflix Deal With Increasing Competition?

Over the past year, about $215 billion were spent on acquisitions in the media industry by AT&T, Comcast, and Disney. Armed with these acquisitions, these media giants are now developing new streaming services that will launch by early 2020. This is worrisome for Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) as it licenses several shows from them.

May 8 – Rendezvous Meetup to Discuss Competing with Heavily Funded Competitors

For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra in person, please join us for our bi-monthly and informal group meetups. If you are living in the San Francisco Bay Area or are just in town for a visit, we hope you will add these meetups to your calendar and join us. Pre-registration is required,

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Drura Parrish, President of Xometry (Part 4)

Drura Parrish: When you look at all of the beautiful machines that are sitting across the manufacturing floors in the United States, think about how this zooms into the broader trend here. Let’s just say, the greatest e-commerce model that we know right now is Amazon who’s trying to sell things and to get to

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Catching Up On Readings: Game Boy History Timeline

On its 30th anniversary, this feature from Polygon by Richard Moss looks at how the Game Boy made its way into North America. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Drura Parrish, President of Xometry (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What are the new things that are getting designed and manufactured in America today? Drura Parrish: We’re still at the cutting edge of automotive and automotive components in electronics, hardware, and mechanical aerospace and all the supply chain that’s going into that.

Colors: Cherry Blossoms, Storm Black

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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