1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Deborah Quazzo of GSV Ventures (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 Deborah Quazzo was recorded in June 2020. Deborah Quazzo is Managing Partner at GSV Ventures, a fund focused on online education ventures. This is a very good discussion on patterns of success

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Startup Ideas for the Post Covid World: Restaurants Delivering Prepared Food as a Subscription

One of the repeated complaints I have heard from my social network during quarantine is that people are dying to go to restaurants. They are bored with home-cooked food. Food, of course, is not the only reason why people go to restaurants. The Economist has a great article titled, Why do people go to restaurants? 

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Raj Valli, CEO of Thinkster (Part 1)

Raj and I kicked around the issue of what AI can do versus what humans need to step in for, in the context of Kindergarten through Grade VIII online math tutoring. See which side of the debate you are on. At any rate, AI applications in online learning is a big opportunity going forward.

Catching Up On Readings: Post Covid AI

This feature from TechCrunch looks at how AI is coping with the changes in life post the COVID pandemic. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

496th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Julianne Zimmerman, Reinventure Capital

Julianne Zimmerman is Managing Director at Reinventure Capital, a firm focused on minority founders.

A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey in Real Estate Tech: Cloud CMA CEO Greg Robertson (Part 7)

Greg Robertson: We usually sell about the seven-year mark. We had a hit product called Cloud CMA, our flagship product. There are about 1.3 million realtors in the United States. We have site license of about 500,000. Those subscribers trade over 260,000 CMAs a month. To put that in perspective, about 5.5 million homes are

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey in Real Estate Tech: Cloud CMA CEO Greg Robertson (Part 6)

Greg Robertson: We left our jobs and rented some cubicles at the architect’s office. After all, he didn’t have architects working because nobody was doing anything in real estate. One of the premises was that we threw away our PC and we both bought Macbooks. We were very inspired by a group in Chicago called

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