Catching Up On Readings: Acquisitions in 2019

This feature from Nasdaq looks at major acquisitions in the first half of 2019. Though the number of M&A deals in the first half of 2019 is up by nearly 10%, the average value of the deals is down by 15.5%. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shripati Acharya of Prime Venture Partners (Part 2)

Shripati Acharya: The reason we say we’re the first institutional check is that we are fairly comfortable in ambiguity in the company. This dovetails into your second question, which is what we are looking for. We are looking for a thesis from the entrepreneur – a conviction of what they’re trying to build, which exhibits

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shripati Acharya of Prime Venture Partners (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 Shripati Acharya was recorded in April 2019. Shripati Acharya is Managing Partner at Priven Advisors, advising Prime Venture Partners, a firm focused on core technology ventures in India. Unlike most VCs, Prime

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sarbvir Singh of WaterBridge Ventures (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I was just talking about trends in various kinds of lending businesses. If you look at QuickBooks financing, it’s Intuit’s product. They’re lending to small businesses that use QuickBooks online. The dataset they’re using to evaluate is QuickBooks data. That’s a proprietary dataset that nobody else has access to. It’s an unfair advantage

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448th Roundtable Recording on June 27, 2019: With Nnamdi Okike, 645 Ventures

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

Colors: Rice Terraces, Fantasy

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about Art and Culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of Art – a painting, a poem, a piece

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July 11 – 448th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 448th 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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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Michael Smerklo of Next Coast Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The geographies that you’ve mentioned, we have quite a bit of experience in some of them. Utah is really booming. Utah has taken that bootstrapping ethos to the ultimate levels of success. They have seen company after company bootstrap to success. Utah really stands out. Michael Smerklo: We think this is a major

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