Bill Bice: If you have a business and you want help in growing, there are literally thousands of options out there. It’s another way of saying that nobody has gotten great at doing it. That’s the problem that we’re tackling. We’ve built a marketing automation system that automates whole industries instead of being designed to
Funding = Success, right? I wish it did. But entrepreneurial tracks are littered with carcasses of dead startups that were very well funded, some to the tune of hundreds of millions. As a case in point, watch this 2 minutes 31 second video: Death By Overfunding.
According to an IDC report published earlier this year, Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) remained the largest CRM services provider for the sixth year in a row and increased its 2018 market share by more percentage points than the rest of the top 15 CRM vendors combined. Here is the infographic from IDC that reveals Salesforce’s might.
Sramana Mitra: The big problem with the Shopify stock is the threat from Amazon. It has had a very good run because the trend is towards massive growth in ecommerce. Shopify has benefited from that. Furthermore, there’s been a massive shift from brick-and-mortar to e-commerce from a small merchant point of view. Instead of setting
Deepen Parikh is Partner at Courtside Ventures, a firm focused on investing in sports related ventures. He provides a fascinating window into a little discussed sector.
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Hernan Fernandez is Managing Partner at Angel Ventures Mexico, a firm that invests in Mexico, Chile, Peru and Colombia. This is an excellent discussion on trends in Latin America.
Sramana Mitra: Let’s do some examples from your investment portfolio. What have you invested in? What are the highlights of your portfolio? As you describe them, what state did you encounter these companies in? What attracted you to them? Bill Bice: Let’s start with Intellicyt that I just mentioned. It was a pre-revenue, pre-LLC company.