January 30 – 470th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 470th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, January 30, 2020, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Shantanu Nigam, CEO of Jvion (Part 2)

Shantanu Nigam: Most of our nurses are in the profession because they care about the patient. When you have a probabilistic system, by design, it will have one patient slip through it and will not be 100% accurate. When the nurses care about the patients so much and they see that one patient slips through,

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jishnu Battacharjee of Nexus 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 Jishnu Battacharjee was recorded in November 2019. Jishnu Bhattacharjee is Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners, a fundamentals-focused firm that aligns with the 1Mby1M philosophy. Jishnu takes us through several examples of

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Shantanu Nigam, CEO of Jvion (Part 1)

Jvion applies AI to avoidable healthcare problems in patients inside and outside hospitals. Read on for more on a very interesting application. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Jvion.

Catching Up On Readings: WEF 2020

This feature from CNBC covers the highlights of the 50th edition of World Economic Forum held at Davos last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Best of Bootstrapping: Queue-It Bootstraps from Denmark to the US

Camilla Ley Valentin, Co-Founder of Queue-It, tells a wonderful story of capital-efficient entrepreneurship, including scaling a company born in Denmark that now has 40% of its business in the US. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background?

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anand Rajaraman of rocketship.vc (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do one example from your rocketship portfolio that illustrates more of what you’re doing today. Anand Rajaraman: I’ll give you an example from India. We are an investor in Moglix. It’s a company based in Delhi. They are in the B2B e-commerce space.

Roundtable Recap: January 23 – Focus Relentlessly

During this week’s roundtable, I worked with five entrepreneurs. OujaFirst up today was Anandth Shoban from Chennai, India, pitching Ouja,a hyperlocal delivery service. Anandth plans to do other services like taxi,etc. which I discouraged him to get into. One business is hard enough to build. Focus is of paramount importance. ConstructivNext, Thomas Jones from Falmouth,

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