Best of Bootstrapping: Capital Efficient Entrepreneurs Turn $1M into $80M

Jeff Wilkins, CEO of Motili, has turned $1 million of personal investment, along with his co-founder, into $80 million in revenue. Pretty capital-efficient, this entrepreneur’s journey! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with where your story begins. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Jeff Wilkins: I grew on the

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November 14 – 465th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 465th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, November 14, 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

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Roundtable Recap: November 7 – An Excellent Discussion on AgTech Startups in Latin America

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Francisco Jardim, Founding Partner, SP Ventures, a Brazilian firm focused on AgTech in Latin America. We learnt a lot about what’s happening in the sector and the region. Logicus eMobility As for entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Saurabh Acharya from Bangalore, India, pitch Logicus eMobility,

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Siemplify CEO Amos Stern (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What stage are you at? How many customers? What kind of adoption are you seeing and what are you hearing from the customers? Amos Stern: We have north of 70 enterprise customers. We have raised $58 million in four rounds. Today, we have a very mature solution and market. Customers are saying that

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November 13 – Rendezvous Meetup to Discuss Competing with Heavily Funded Startups

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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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2019: SourceScrub, San Francisco, CA

SourceScrub at its core is a business intelligence database surrounded by a platform that allows the user to find companies or investment opportunities that meet a given criteria. Its main value proposition is that its platform can help uncover founder-owned businesses that either aren’t very active in marketing or have yet to transact.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Siemplify CEO Amos Stern (Part 1)

Enterprises have made tremendous investment in cyber security. Amos discusses how to extract value out of existing investments. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Siemplify. Amos Stern: I’m the CEO and Co-Founder of Siemplify. We’ve been around since the beginning of 2015. I’m originally from Israel. I

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alok Nandan of Emergent 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 Alok Nandan was recorded in September 2019. Alok Nandan, General Partner at Emergent Ventures (USA), discusses explainable AI in the context of his fund’s investment focus.