Startup Ideas for the Post Covid World: Distributing the Workforce

One of the unambiguous trends of the Covid era is the success of work-from-home for certain industry sectors such as Tech, Finance, Legal, Consulting, etc. Recode reported in May:  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a livestream on his personal page on Thursday that he guesses as much as 50 percent of the company’s 45,000-person

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Sashi Narahari, CEO of HighRadius (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Go down one level further. What kind of heuristics are we talking about here? Sashi Narahari: Let’s take a simple example. You are a company and you bill High Radius. We would transfer $3,400 to the bank. Let’s say you use Bank of America. Then there’s an email about the payment.

Thursday, July 23 – 495th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 495th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, July 23, 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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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: HealthSherpa CTO Ning Liang (Part 1)

Much of Obamacare goes untapped due to lack of information and awareness. HealthSherpa is helping consumers access the facility. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to HealthSherpa. 

494th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Dan Roselli, CFV Ventures

Dan Roselli is Founder and Managing Partner at CFV Ventures, a North Carolina firm focused on FinTech and InsureTech.

Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Sashi Narahari, CEO of HighRadius (Part 1)

Companies like Blackline, Bill.com, Anaplan all automate various CFO office functions. HighRadius is yet another excellent company automating a piece of the finance function.

Serial Entrepreneurship in CAD: SolidWorks and Onshape Founder Jon Hirschtick (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What did you do in terms of getting OnShape off the ground? Did you raise venture money? From whom?  Jon Hirschtick: I got a founding team together. Guess who’s on the founding team? Tommy and Dave. The guy who had supervised me in ‘81 and had been my SolidWorks co-founder had bought me

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Catching Up On Readings: Cloud IPOs

This feature from Bloomberg Opinion by Tae Kim analyzes the demand for IPOs of cloud-based companies like nCino. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.