Roundtable Recap: March 7 – Fascinating Ventures with Good Early Traction

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Rahul Chowdhri, Investor at Stellaris Venture Partners, who shared some fascinating examples of consumer ventures catering to the next 400 million consumers in India. Neeman’s As for entrepreneur pitches, up first we had 1Mby1M Premium member Taran Chhabra from Hyderabad, India, pitching Neeman’s, a new shoe

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Daniel Keiper-Knorr of Speedinvest (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: There’s one topic that I want to explore with you which is very much in line with what you’re saying about the European market in a relative fragmentation due to language, culture, country boundaries, and so forth. In Silicon Valley or in the US market, in the Chinese Market, and even in India

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434th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 434th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, March 7, 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!

434th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 434th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, March 7, 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!

How is Workday’s PaaS Strategy Coming Along?

According to a Market Research Future report published last year, the global Human Capital Management (HCM) market is estimated to grow 9% annually to reach $24 billion by 2023. Workday (NYSE: WDAY) may have started out as a HCM provider, but the company has diversified into enterprise services since and its growth continues to surpass

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Taking on Giants in the Contact Center Space: UJET CEO, Anand Janefalkar (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  We’re seeing new SaaS companies emerge that are taking on giant categories. In such businesses, positioning is extremely important. Read how Anand has positioned to get to 40 customers in the contact center software category. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Daniel Keiper-Knorr of Speedinvest (Part 3)

Daniel Keiper-Knorr: We have one company in the portfolio in the Essex base. It’s an area that’s not so much in fashion with the recent VC industry, but still you can find super talented teams. The market is still large and growing. In the recent phase, three to five years is probably all about analytics.

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What SaaS Products Built on Salesforce.com’s PaaS Have Gained Substantial Traction?

Earlier this week, Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) announced its fourth quarter results. While the company outpaced market expectations for the quarter, its weak outlook has sent the stock falling. In the after hours trading session, its stock slipped 3%.