1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Taylor Greene of Collaborative Fund (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 Taylor Greene was recorded in April 2019. Taylor Greene, Managing Director at Collaborative Fund, shares his firms’ investment thesis. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to you and to Collaborative

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Daniel Ibri of Mindset 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 Daniel Ibri was recorded in April 2019. Daniel Ibri, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Mindset Ventures, talks about his firm’s investment thesis in enabling US and Israeli companies to enter Brazil. Sramana

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck to YCombinator and $10M Series A: Ryan Chan, CEO of UpKeep (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What kind of numbers did you do in 2016, 2017, and 2018? What was the ramp in terms of free users and paying users? What was happening? Ryan Chan: We’ve been growing very fast. We’ve hit a true nerve in this market and the completely underserved industry. Over 2,500 paying companies use UpKeep.

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Idaptive CEO Danny Kibel (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How does this trend of people working from home all the time these days and this whole gig economy thing play into all the scenarios that you’re describing? Danny Kibel: Yes, that’s key. In the old trusted world, people were either VPN-ing into their office. In that case, they become part of this

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Catching Up On Readings: E3 2019

This feature from The Verge covers at the highlights of the biggest video game event E3 held in Los Angeles last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Idaptive CEO Danny Kibel (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Who are the key players in this space? Danny Kibel: You see companies like Okta that started from single sign-on and are now pushing into the MFA space as well. They’re also promoting the Zero Trust concept. We’re also seeing companies like Microsoft and Ping Identity. There are a few players in this

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446th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Francis Simisim, Original Pitch Venture Capital

Francis Simisim is Partner at Original Pitch Venture Capital based in the Philippines. We had a very good discussion on how that ecosystem is developing.

Bootstrapping With A Paycheck to YCombinator and $10M Series A: Ryan Chan, CEO of UpKeep (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You have $10 million in the bank. You started hiring sales people and started putting a process together. Now, let me reask the question. What was the repeatable sales process?Was it that you started putting in a process to take all the leads? Are the free users categorized by companies, company size, and

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