Roundtable Recap: January 10 – Spotlight on Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in Vienna

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Daniel Keiper-Knorr, Founder and General Partner at SpeedInvest, a venture firm based in Vienna. It’s great to see exciting energy and activity in Vienna, one of my favorite cities. Luvvul As for entrepreneur pitches, first up, we had Nedra Fabito from Encinitas, California, pitch Luvvul, an

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Sramana Mitra: In a nutshell, you are still looking at unicorn exits as the preferred investment thesis. Spencer Crawley: Correct. Sramana Mitra: It is the conventional wisdom of venture capital. Spencer Crawley: We debated it at length. It’s not something that we took as gospel from day one. It’s a more organic process of building

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Will Atlas Help Keep Competitors Away from MongoDB?

The stock market has had a turbulent last quarter, but Billion Dollar Unicorn MongoDB (Nasdaq:MDB) seems immune to the fluctuations. Since listing on the Nasdaq in October 2017, the database services provider has seen its stock more than triple. Recent results suggest that the growth is not slowing down soon.

427th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 427th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, January 10, 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!

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Spencer Crawley of Firstminute Capital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What are some of the highlights of your portfolio? Tell us about what stage and what condition you encountered when you chose to invest in them. What is it about them that caused you to place the bet? Spencer Crawley: I have to think through my head about which ones are public and

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Will Hello TransTech Survive in the Chinese Bike Sharing Market?

A recent Research and Markets report estimates the global dockless bike sharing market to grow 21% annually over the period 2017 to 2022. But while global forecasts may sound appealing, China is witnessing an implosion in the industry. In 2017, China had nearly 40 bike sharing companies operating across its cities, with Beijing alone witnessing

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Spencer Crawley of Firstminute Capital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: We just announced a partnership with EIT Health. They are going to be accelerating 115 companies with us. The first 15 have been named. Spencer Crawley: How did that come about? That seems really impressive and exciting. Sramana Mitra: We have very deep connections in Europe. I am married to a European. My

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What Are the Most Popular Use Cases for Splunk?

Billion Dollar Unicorn Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK) recently announced its third quarter results that outpaced guidance for the 27th consecutive quarter. Splunk may have initially been launched as a machine generated data analytics platform, but today it has expanded into several diverse areas. It remains focused on becoming “the ubiquitous machine data platform, the standard in every

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