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.

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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.

Netflix Unlocks Growth in Lockdown

Competition was getting tough in the online streaming space, but the pandemic and lockdown has helped Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) surge ahead of its competitors. It reported a strong quarter but expects slower quarters ahead.

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.

Serial Entrepreneurship in CAD: SolidWorks and Onshape Founder Jon Hirschtick (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What prompted that decision to sell? Jon Hirschtick: It came down to three things. My criteria are winning the market, working with great people, and making money. Both routes made money. This could help us win the market. People like going public because they’re fascinated with it.

Colors: Hills

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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Serial Entrepreneurship in CAD: SolidWorks and Onshape Founder Jon Hirschtick (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Any other strategic decisions that you made in building SolidWorks?  Jon Hirschtick: One is, we decided to sell exclusively through a dealer channel. We would not sell directly. If you want to buy SolidWorks, you have to go through dealers. That was a huge decision. It had all kinds of implications. It turned

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