1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shruti Gandhi of Array Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You don’t need them to finish the product? Shruti Gandhi: No. One of our companies barely had a deck. Sramana Mitra: You want customer validation from their network. Then you want to take that concept and shop it around in your relevant network. If all that checks out, you’re okay with writing a

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Thursday, April 9 – 480th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 480th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, April 9, 2020, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/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

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Bootstrapping to $8 Million: Sina Khanifar, CEO of Waveform (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What was Waveform going to do in 2006? Sina Khanifar: We graduated college and were trying to figure out which up and coming industry we could get started in. My dad had just come back from South Korea. He mentioned that in South Korea, all the buildings had device repeaters that would help

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shruti Gandhi of Array 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 Shruti Gandhi was recorded in March 2020. Shruti Gandhi is General Partner and Founding Engineer, Array Ventures, a fund focused on deep tech, enterprise-facing ventures.

479th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Darshana Zaveri, Catalyst Health Ventures

Darshana Zaveri, Managing Partner at Catalyst Health Ventures, discusses the firm’s medical device focused investment thesis, including the nuances of epidemiologic diagnostic that are currently immensely relevant. The Catalyst investment team also includes Managing Partner Josh Phillips and Principal Neil Swami.

Bootstrapping to $8 Million: Sina Khanifar, CEO of Waveform (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Sina started tinkering with bootstrapped entrepreneurship way back in college. It has paid off. 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?

Catching Up On Readings: SBA Loans

This feature by Jonathan Shieber on TechCrunch covers the highlights and loopholes of the new guidance on SBA loans rolled out to keep small businesses afloat. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

479th Roundtable Recording on April 2, 2020: With Darshana Zaveri, Catalyst Health Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 479th 1Mby1M Roundtable on April 2, 2020: With Darshana Zaveri, Catalyst Health Ventures