Building Businesses in Aftermarket Designer Merchandise: ShopWorn CEO Richard Birnbaum (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Richard has built several business in the “shopworn” designer merchandise segment. Learn more about the business through his journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Richard

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Cristobal Perdomo of Jaguar Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What are some of the highlights of recent companies that have crossed $5 million in revenues? Cristobal Perdomo: It’s hard to know the revenues unless you’re actually working with them. We’re starting to see more Series C investments that are over $10 million. Sramana Mitra: How many Series C’s have happened in the

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vikas Choudhury of Pivot Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Vikas Choudhury was recorded in May 2019. Vikas Choudhury is Managing Partner at Pivot Ventures and President at Reliance Jio. He is one of the earliest Angel investors in India and invested

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Cristobal Perdomo of Jaguar Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Are you seeing B2B SaaS in Latin America or is that not so much a trend? Is the trend more towards transaction-based marketplaces and FinTech? Cristobal Perdomo: FinTech, across the world, is a hot topic. It has become too hot for my taste. That’s the largest sector of ventures you see. I also

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shripati Acharya of Prime Venture Partners (Part 5)

Shripati Acharya: I was talking to an entrepreneur yesterday. He was talking about why they turned down a chance to raise a lot of money. One is that the structure of the company changes if you raise $10 million instead of $3 million. Sometimes, there are opportunities like that because we have oversubscribed rounds. There

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447th Roundtable Recording on June 20, 2019: With Victoire Laurenty, Kerala Ventures

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

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Cristobal Perdomo of Jaguar Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do some examples of what kinds of things you’ve invested in. It doesn’t matter if it’s from the first or second fund. What I want to understand is how you think about these investments. When did they come to you? What did they have when they came to you? What did you

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July 10 – Rendezvous Meetup to Discuss the Probability of Raising Funds for Your Startup

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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