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Building a Virtual Company to $20 Million: Rob Cheng, CEO of PC Pitstop (Part 6)

Posted on Thursday, Apr 18th 2019

Sramana Mitra: How were you addressing the blacklist issue? How were you detecting if something wasn’t blacklisted but was a problem? How were you figuring that out? Rob Cheng: What we’re doing is the opposite. We’re creating a white list of everything that’s good. We’re looking for every single good program that we can find

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rahul Chowdhri of Stellaris Venture Partners (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 17th 2019

Sramana Mitra: This was actually fascinating because we do have a very large Indian following. It’s very interesting to hear about these trends. What’s new? What’s cutting edge? So I’d love to hear more about other interesting ideas in your portfolio. Rahul Chowdhri: Shop101 is a social commerce application. In the last few years, Facebook,

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Roundtable Recap: April 17 – A Discussion on Concept-stage Financing

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 17th 2019

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Priven Advisors, advising Prime Venture Partners, a firm focused on core technology ventures in India. Unlike most VCs, Prime does concept-stage investments. Oracle project As for the entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Arun Philips from Bangalore, India, who is also

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440th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 17th 2019

Today’s 440th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Wednesday, April 17, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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440th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 17th 2019

Today’s 440th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Wednesday, April 17, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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Building a Virtual Company to $20 Million: Rob Cheng, CEO of PC Pitstop (Part 5)

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 17th 2019

Sramana Mitra: Were you hiring these developers in South Carolina? Rob Cheng: We used Monster.com. Back then, that was a way to hire people. So I would just look for the best people and for the skill. I would find them wherever I could. As it ends up, a couple of our developers ended up

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181st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Taylor Greene, Collaborative Fund

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 17th 2019

Taylor Greene, Managing Director at Collaborative Fund, shares his firm’s investment thesis.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rahul Chowdhri of Stellaris Venture Partners (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 16th 2019

Sramana Mitra: Give us a few examples of what you have invested in catering to that next 400 milion users. Rahul Chowdhri: We invested in a company called VOGO. It is a scooter-sharing business like Lime or Bird. The problem that Lime solves in the US is very different from what VOGO is in India.

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