Cloud Stocks: MongoDB has Miles to go

IDC projects the database market to be $71 billion in 2020, growing to $97 billion in 2023. MongoDB has less than 1% share of the global database market and a long runway for growth ahead of it.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Elly Truesdell of Almanac Insights (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 Elly Truesdell was recorded in March 2020. Elly Truesdell is Partner at Almanac Insights, a fund focused on food-related investments. We have a fascinating conversation.

Catching Up On Readings: Startup Layoffs

This report from Crunchbase examines the layoffs at startups since the outbreak of Covid-19 began. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Rendezvous Online Recording: March 24, 2020

Some audience questions answered by Sramana: • What are your top five predictions on the after effects of the Corona virus in America and Europe? • What types of businesses will thrive in the corona virus era? • What is your opinion of “failing is not bad?” It’s a way to learn for entrepreneurs. •

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Rendezvous Online Recording: March 17, 2020

Some audience questions answered by Sramana: • How do you keep your business moving in the age of Corona virus? • If you’re a bootstrapping startup, how do you handle heavily funded competitors? • When should you quit when bootstrapping with a paycheck? • Are there any indicators of the growing importance of PaaS? •

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Colors: Basque Hermitage, Cliff

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and

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Bootstrapping to Exit: Imagine Easy Solutions CEO Neal Taparia (Part 6)

Neal Taparia: Then we acquired the next biggest site in the space which was called CitationMachine. Later on, we acquired the biggest international site in UK and Australia following that same playbook of building relationships to eventually lead to an acquisition. By 2016, we were reaching 30 million students across the globe, primarily in Western-educated

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Bootstrapping to Exit: Imagine Easy Solutions CEO Neal Taparia (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In terms of the monetization strategy, it sounds like you needed advertisers through the ad networks who were going after the student demographics. Neal Taparia: That’s correct. Sramana Mitra: Were there ad networks specifically focused on that demographic or were you just working with various ad networks and finding the segment match with

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