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.

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According to a recent Global Market Insights report, the global digital banking market is estimated to grow at 6% CAGR to $12 trillion by 2026 from $8 trillion in 2019. Total global digital payment transactions exceeded 750 billion in volume in 2019 and accounted for over $700 trillion. The current pandemic conditions have accelerated the

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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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Catching Up On Readings: Tech IPOs of 2020

This feature from Crunchbase News lists all the tech companies that have gone public in the year 2020. Even after the COVID-induced lull, the IPO market had 23 IPOs this year, compared to 27 in 2019. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship to $30 Million from India: Ankit Oberoi, CEO of AdPushup (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about cracking into the larger publishers from a go-to-market standpoint. How did you get your first larger publisher to buy the product? How did that evolve? Ankit Oberoi: I think the first five or ten was still easy because we were so connected in the ecosystem and had so many

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Robert Weber of Great North Labs (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Here in 1M1M, we are huge believers in bootstrapping. We encourage people to bootstrap first and raise money later. It creates a healthier term sheet and trajectory, but it is hard to do in such expensive cost structure situations. My other question, based on what you have said, is about the structure and

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