1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nihal Mehta of ENIAC Ventures (Part 5)

Nihal Mehta: We like un-sexy industries. I’m looking at a construction company that’s storing construction history on the Blockchain. When people say they’re using Blockchain, more often than not, you can say, “You probably don’t need to use Blockchain for this.” There are some really interesting native use cases of Blockchain that we’re excited to

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nihal Mehta of ENIAC Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Based on what you said, I want to provide some commentary to our audience about the team issue. You hear me talking about multiple co-founders and he’s talking about a full-stack team. Those two are mutually dependent. You can only have a full-stack team if you have multiple co-founders. If you have to

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January 10 – 427th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 427th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, January 10, 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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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nihal Mehta of ENIAC Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Very well. It’s definitely the age of the incumbents these days on the B2C side. Nihal Mehta: Consumer venture funds are actually going down in size because gone are the days of Instagram, WhatsApp-like billion-plus acquisitions. Google and Facebook will just try to build it or buy it before it gets big enough.

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426th Roundtable Recording On January 3, 2019

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Bird Delivers Meteoric Growth

A survey of 7,000 people conducted by the research firm Populous found that 3.6% of those surveyed had used a dockless scooter recently. Given the short period of time that dockless scooters have been in business, that is believed to be a much quicker adoption rate than that of dockless bikes. The market is currently

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Krishna Srinivasan of LiveOak Venture Partners (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How did this entrepreneur find you or how did you find him? Krishna Srinivasan: It’s the old myth of this business, which is you need a strong recommendation to be able to get to a venture firm. He just cold emailed us with his back story. We brought him in. We introduced him

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Roundtable Recap: January 3 – Excellent Global Entrepreneur Pitches To Kick Off The New Year

During this week’s roundtable, the first of 2019, we worked on three wonderful pitches, and had a productive discussion on each. All three entrepreneurs are serious, realistic, receptive, and thus, the discussions were meaningful and impactful. Astreal First up, we had Prateeksha Satyamoorthy from Bangalore, India, pitch Astreal, a virtual tradeshow platform that I suggested

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