449th Roundtable Recording on July 11, 2019

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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July 18 – 450th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 450th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, July 18, 2019, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 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

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Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: How do you charge? Loris Degioanni: We charge based on the number of machines that they need to manage with our platform. It’s the typical function of the number of servers that you’re running. Sramana Mitra: What is the next milestone after you started monetizing? What are some of the major milestones based

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Catching Up On Readings: RISE 2019

This feature from CryptoNewsZ covers the highlights of the PITCH competition for startups at the 2019 edition of the RISE conference held in Hong Kong last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Eghosa Omoigui of EchoVC Partners (Part 4)

Eghosa Omoigui: Education is a very significant issue. These markets are growing very quickly. Nigeria is adding 26,000 babies every day. Education and how you create a pathway to households is a key part of this. We invested in a company called Kukua, which is based out of Nairobi. What they built is a platform

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Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: The $2.5 million of seed capital that you raised, what was the next milestone? How long did it take you from there to deliver your first product? Loris Degioanni: Based on my background and experience with open source, I decided that I wanted to approach this second adventure with an open source philosophy.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Eghosa Omoigui of EchoVC Partners (Part 3)

Eghosa Omoigui: We have four investment thesis that we’ve talked about internally, but this is the first time we’re sharing them outside. One of them is that there is a recognition that in many submarkets in Africa, almost all economic activities are offline. It continues to be offline. There was a very large opportunity, in

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Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 5)

Loris Degioanni: These dynamics towards micro-services means that these companies can essentially break their software into smaller pieces and then use APIs to talk to each other. This spawned a massive industry that is led by the cloud vendors and by open source projects like Kubernetes. I witnessed the creation of these industries and immediately

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