426th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Sumner Douglas, BoomStartup

Sumner Douglas is Managing Director and Venture Partner at BoomStartup, a Utah-based accelerator that offers pre-seed funding.

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425th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Alireza Rahnema, 7 Gate Ventures

Alireza Rahnema, Principal and General Partner at 7 Gate Ventures, talks about the Vancouver startup eco-system and his firm’s investment thesis.

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Carol Clayton, Relias (Part 1)

Carol explains certain SaaS-enabled BPO opportunities within the value-based healthcare domain. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Relias. Carol Clayton: I’m a psychologist by training. I worked as the translational neuroscientist at Relias. Relias is a healthcare technology company with footprints specifically in the space of using

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Catching Up On Readings: WEF Davos 2019

This feature from MoneyControl presents the highlights of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2019 held in Davos last week. It summarizes 33 ways that Davos 2019 impacted the world. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Freshworks Has Acquired Nine Capital Efficient Startups

Six months back, B2B SaaS vendor Freshworks, formerly known as Freshdesk, raised $100 million at a post-money valuation of $1.5 billion, marking its entry into the Billion Dollar Unicorn Club. It recently reported profitability in FY2017-2018 ending March 2018. Unlike most other unicorns, Freshworks has an eye on fundamentals, a byproduct, I should like to

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Andrew Grauer, CEO of Course Hero (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: It’s a very interesting topic that you bring up. There are some observations I have on that. One is that some of the rock star teachers at top universities have their very popular courses on edX and Coursera. Then you have platforms like what LinkedIn is doing. Soon after they named me one

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January 31 – 430th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 430th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, January 31, 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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Best of Bootstrapping: How Can You Play this Low-Probability Game Intelligently?

Let me start with a quote from Marc Andreessen: “At our venture capital firm we only invest in a sort of Silicon Valley–style tech. We see 3,000 inbound deals a year. And those are inbound and coming through our referral network, so those are sort of prequalified. We can do maybe 15 or 20 investments

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