February 27 – Rendezvous Meetup to Discuss How to Compete 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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432nd Roundtable Recording on February 20, 2019: With Swapna Gupta, Qualcomm Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 432nd 1Mby1M Roundtable Feb. 20, 2019: With Swapna Gupta, Qualcomm Ventures

Billion Dollar Unicorns: SurveyMonkey Should Do A Platform Strategy

According to a recent report, the global online survey software market is estimated to have grown 12% annually over the period 2014 to 2018 to $2.8 billion in 2018. The industry is estimated to grow to $5.7 billion by the year 2020. Billion Dollar Unicorn SurveyMonkey (Nasdaq: SVMK) recently reported its fourth quarter results that

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Bootstrapping from Denmark: Camilla Ley Valentin, Co-Founder of Queue-It (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: How much money have you raised? Camilla Ley Valentin: Original funding from the seed/incubator ended up around $500,000 to $600,000 depending on the currency rate. We bought those shares back from the fund and then we actually turned around and sold them to a number of business angels here. Then we’ve added a

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Roundtable Recap: February 20 – Think Through Your Working Capital Needs

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Swapna Gupta, Senior Investment Manager, Qualcomm Ventures, who explained the firm’s investment strategy. Zodhya As for entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Rohith Pallerla from Hyderabad, India, pitching Zodhya, a hardware device that optimizes energy consumption in commercial air-conditioning systems. Zodhya already has paying customers. However,

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Navid Alipour of Analytics Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What constitutes the profile of a founder that you would want to found a company with? Navid Alipour: If it’s not a corporate founder, whether it’s a very large public insurance company or a private advertising company, it’s usually going to be a scientist, academician, or entrepreneur. They have a certain domain of

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432nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 432nd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Wednesday, February 20, 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!

432nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 10 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 432nd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Wednesday, February 20, 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!