March 4 – Rendezvous Meetup to Discuss How to Compete with Heavily Funded Competitors

For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra in person, please join us for our bi-monthly and informal meetups. If you are living in the San Francisco Bay Area or are just in town for a visit, we hope you will add these meetups to your calendar and join us. Pre-registration is required, REGISTER HERE.

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Roundtable Recap: February 6 – Validation Should Be Done with Potential Customers, NOT Advisors

We had two pitches today. Etelier First up, was Sean Dehan from Austin, Texas, pitching Etelier, a membership-based luxury product marketplace. We discussed how to introduce a membership model. Applicature Next, Ian Arden from Palo Alto, California, pitched Applicature, a marketplace for VCs to access LPs and startups to access VCs. I advised Ian to

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471st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 471st FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 6, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. PASSWORD: startup All are welcome!

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Actifio CEO Ash Ashutosh (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Dell’s an OEM relationship? Ash Ashutosh: It’s a reseller/selling partner relationship. Their sellers can sell it and they get paid for it. They don’t rebrand the Actifio software. They rebrand the whole product. The last partnership is on the systems integrator side with TCS. Because it’s all about data and transformation, we needed

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471st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 471st FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, February 6 at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. PASSWORD: startup All are welcome!

Facebook Explores Payments and Commerce

Facebook’s (Nasdaq: FB) battle with privacy concerns are far from over. The company recently announced that it had settled a class action lawsuit by paying $550 million in fine, and it was also slapped with a $5 billion fine for privacy abuses by the Federal Trade Commission. Despite this, its quarterly results surpassed market expectations.

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Scaling with Virality to 9 Million Users: Postman CEO Abhinav Asthana (Part 4)

Abhinav Asthana: Postman is a complete platform for API development. You can collaborate with hundreds of people on the Postman platform. All of that happened through this continuous learning and shipping process. Along the way, we have also looked at how to design our pricing models to be very much in line with the value

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PaaS: Platform Vendors Need to Avoid Lumpy Revenues

In my recent post How PaaS Impacts The Stock Prices Of SaaS Companies, I mentioned an equation: Some numbers: Let us say, a SaaS platform vendor succeeds in facilitating 100 small companies to achieve $10M in ARR each. That would add up to $1 billion ARR cumulative. 30% of this, or $300 million ARR comes

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