1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sateesh Andra of Endiya Partners (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Abhishek, you wanted to talk about one of your companies that already had an exit. Abhishek Srivastava: This is a company called Shield Square, a cyber security company. They had built a cloud-based, real-time bot intervention solution. All online digital asset, whether it’s e-commerce, travel site, or financial services, have been constantly facing

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Smartsheet Banks on Acquisitions for Growth

The global enterprise collaboration software market is estimated to grow 11% annually to $53.8 billion by 2023. Seattle-based Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR) is already benefiting from this double-digit growth rate. Growth in revenues doesn’t appear to be translating into profits, but the market does not seem very concerned. Smartsheet continues to add capabilities through product innovation

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck to YCombinator and $10M Series A: Ryan Chan, CEO of UpKeep (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So you started building. Did you still have your day job? Was this on the side? Ryan Chan: This was a hobby on the side. I did this from 6PM to 10 PM, three times a week. I love learning things. I love building. For me, it was fun. I loved doing this.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sateesh Andra of Endiya Partners (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Do you want to talk about any other company? Sateesh Andra: I’ll switch to an India team company. Abhishek managed the company. He had an exit in the first three years. It was a cyber security company that’s selling in Europe, US, and India. But there’s this India-themed FinTech company called Kissht. They

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Palo Alto Networks Builds Through Acquisition to Take on Competition

Cyber security player Palo Alto Networks (NYSE:PANW) recently announced its third quarter results that surpassed market expectations. The company continues to build its portfolio through acquisitions within the highly fragmented industry. It is focused on securing the cloud environments for its enterprise customers as it builds its arsenal to take on big competitors like Cisco

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June 13th – 446th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 446th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, June 13, 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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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck to YCombinator and $10M Series A: Ryan Chan, CEO of UpKeep (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Ryan took a hobby project that he bootstrapped with a paycheck and managed to get into YCombinator. From there, he raised a $10M Series A from a top-tier Silicon Valley firm, Emergence Capital. Excellent execution thus far. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start from the very beginning of

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sateesh Andra of Endiya Partners (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: As you probably know, my background is in computer architecture. I was in the parallel computing part of MIT’s projects back in the mid-90s. Funding for chip companies has gone down tremendously. Almost no one in the Indian venture ecosystem is willing or equipped to do chips. I’m actually thrilled to hear that

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