Best of Bootstrapping: The VC-Entrepreneur Compensation Disbalance

The compensation disbalance in the Venture Capital / Private Equity world remains quite stark. Take a look at the chart a friend once sent me showing some concrete data on VC compensation, and Private Equity industry performance. VCs without much of an operating background constitute a trigger-happy lot, operating based on spreadsheets rather than experience

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MongoDB Banks on Partnerships and Acquisitions for Growth

According to a Market Research Future report, the global cloud database market is estimated to grow at a tremendous CAGR of 47% to reach $21.67 billion by the year 2023. Last month, cloud Database-as-a-Service provider MongoDB (Nasdaq:MDB) announced its first quarter results that surpassed all market expectations.

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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Cloud Stocks: Adobe Leveraging Magento and Marketo to Deliver Blockbuster Performance

Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) is one company that has truly pivoted itself to adapt to the modern subscription economy. The transition has benefited the company significantly. Since 2015, it has reported more than 20% year-on-year revenue growth for each quarter. It is also the eighth consecutive quarter that the stock has delivered double digit growth. And

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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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