Sramana Mitra: In a cyber security startup, I don’t think anybody other than the founder who’s the product visionary can close those deals with the first few customers. Only a founder who has deep enough knowledge of the product and space can position on the fly. Let’s talk about a couple more case studies of
Sramana Mitra: Do you want to do another example? Ashish Jain: Let’s take one from India. I would not even call it emerging anymore. India is going through Innovation 3.0. 1.0 was around business process outsourcing. 2.0 was around IT services companies. These founders are looking beyond replicating. They are looking into supply chain, platforms
We’re big believers in Bootstrapping Using Services, as you know. Here’s the story of CEO James Kane who scaled RWS to over $10 million in revenue using the method. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? James
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 477th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, March 19, 2020, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/4 p.m. CET/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
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 477th 1Mby1M Roundtable March 19, 2020: With Elly Truesdell, Almanac Insights
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Elly Truesdell, Partner at Almanac Insights, a fund focused on food related investments. Fascinating conversation! MarketKoin As for entrepreneur pitches, we started with Nikolaj Vestorp from Thisted, Denmark, pitching MarketKoin, a crypto exchange for Indonesia. You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 477th
Deepak Jeevankumar: The first question we ask is a market question. Are you part of the future of the world’s story? Future means growth. For example, I think the future is multi-cloud which includes hybrid cloud. We like startups that have strong multi-cloud or hybrid philosophies. Then how are you securing some of these changes
Sramana Mitra: What kinds of ventures do you think you add the most value to and, hence, what are you looking to invest in? Ashish Jain: We are a technology firm. We are lovers of technology. We invest in three broad descriptive areas. One is exceptional founders and companies related to the future of work.