470th Roundtable Recording on January 30, 2020: With Osayi Igharo, Ripple VC

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 470th 1Mby1M Roundtable January 30, 2020: With Osayi Igharo, Ripple VC

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469th Roundtable Recording on January 23, 2020

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 469th 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs January 23, 2020

Cloud Stocks: Recently Public Cloudflare has New Edge

Website infrastructure and security company Cloudflare went public in September last year and recently reported a strong quarter. With a new acquisition and a PaaS edge, the company looks promising.

Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Barry Adika, CEO of Brandefender (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Can you give me a sense of how much people are paying for things like that? What’s an average deal size? What ballpark is the pricing? Barry Adika: A company like Adidas has 77 people that’s doing price monitoring every day. They have two lawyers on staff. With our software, they can have

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Catching Up On Readings: FinTech Funding 2019

This feature from TechCrunch looks at the key takeaways from the CB Insights report on funding in the FinTech sector in 2019. Insurtech and payroll and payment solutions were some of the sectors that were trending last year. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Barry Adika, CEO of Brandefender (Part 4)

Barry Adika: Amazon decided to freeze some accounts that don’t have proper documentation. For these sellers, to photoshop an invoice is not a big deal. There’s no enforcement on Amazon’s side. That’s why they have six million members currently. Long story short, those guys got smarter. Let’s say you have a big Amazon account. It’s

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Climbing Out of Despair Through Entrepreneurship: Ferren Rajput, CEO of Book A Jet (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: This $68,000 that this guy paid you, what value did he receive for that? It’s not like there were lots of other jets that he could fly on.  Ferren Rajput: The membership locks you into x number of hours that you can utilize. Every time you book a flight with us, you would

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Colors: Basque Hermitage, San Juan de Gaztelugatxe IV

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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