1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Roman Kikta, Managing Partner at Mobility Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: A lot of entrepreneurs look for product-market fit. We also want investor-entrepreneur fit. It needs to happen for a deal to happen. The reason that I’m asking you all these questions about stage, geography, and styles of companies is that they are relevant to getting an investor-entrepreneur fit. There is also this unfair

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Bootstrapping a Technology Product Company from India: Sachin Bhatia, Founder of Ameyo (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Now we are in 2006. What happens next? Sachin Bhatia: We went to the Philippines in 2006. By 2017, the Philippines was a repeatable market for us. We hired a local team there. Things were going well and we were growing. For the first time, we met with industry leaders. I remember having

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513th Roundtable Recording on December 17, 2020: With Sasha Mirchandani, Kae Capital

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 513th 1Mby1M Roundtable Dec. 17, 2020: With Sasha Mirchandani, Kae Capital

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Roman Kikta, Managing Partner at Mobility Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Where are you located? Roman Kikta: I am based in Dallas, Texas, but we are distributed globally. I have partners in Barcelona, UK, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Sao Paulo.  Sramana Mitra: How many partners are bringing in this $200 million of working capital. It sounds like all of them are general partners in

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Bootstrapping a Technology Product Company from India: Sachin Bhatia, Founder of Ameyo (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Who was the first customer who validated the contact center idea. Sachin Bhatia: She used to run a BPO in New Delhi. She is a very good friend now. I remember my meeting with my three colleagues. We were trying to decide who was going to pick up sales. I was chosen to

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513th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Sasha Mirchandani, Kae Capital

Sasha Mirchandani is Founder and Managing Director, Kae Capital, an early stage fund focused on India. I’ve known Sasha for over a decade, and we discuss the evolution of the Indian startup industry at length.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Roman Kikta, Managing Partner at Mobility 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 Roman Kikta was recorded in September 2020. Roman Kikta is Managing Partner and Founder at Mobility Ventures. Roman discusses his firms’ investment thesis.

Bootstrapping a Technology Product Company from India: Sachin Bhatia, Founder of Ameyo (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Some of us have worked relentlessly for decades to bring about the change in India from a largely services-driven technology industry to one that today produces credible products sold all over the world. Ameyo is one of the early examples of this shift, and Sachin, an

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