Wed. 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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Thursday, July 11 – 449th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 449th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, July 11, 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 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Loris has specialized expertise in building Open Source companies. Read how he has done it twice. 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? Loris Degioanni: As you

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Cloud Stocks: How Will Cloudera Address the Competition?

Hadoop services provider Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR) has been trying different strategies to continue to stay relevant. As part of this effort, it completed the $5.2 billion merger with Hortonworks earlier this year. The stock has fallen by 65% since the start of the year, and there doesn’t appear to be any respite in sight. The

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Building Businesses in Aftermarket Designer Merchandise: ShopWorn CEO Richard Birnbaum (Part 5)

Richard Birnbaum: We also noticed that the brands were beginning to end distributor contracts and were setting up their own distribution companies in the United States. For example, their cost of goods on an item was 8% of retail. Their biggest cost is not the cost of goods. It’s the marketing and advertising. It’s the

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vikas Choudhury of Pivot Ventures (Part 5)

Vikas Choudhury: Another investment is a cloud kitchen. It’s a company called Inner Chef run by someone I know. That company was riding on the wave of logistics and delivery, which was designed for the e-commerce ecosystem. As you know, food delivery is becoming very large across the world. A lot of marketplaces have come

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448th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Nnamdi Okike, 645 Ventures

Nnamdi Okike is Co-founder and Managing Partner at 645 Ventures. We have an excellent conversation about trends and his firm’s investment thesis.

Cloud Stocks: Is Slack Overvalued?

Enterprise collaboration startup Slack went public last month on the NYSE under the ticker WORK. Rather than the usual IPO route, the company went public via a direct listing, similar to Spotify’s listing last year. The direct listing allows Slack to trade its shares publicly without the usual lock-in periods 90 or 180 days. Its valuation

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