Colors: Cherry Blossoms, Stream

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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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Where do you see white spaces? I’ll give you an example. One of the things we’re learning in this COVID world is that at the elementary school level, distance learning is performing poorly. Clearly that is something that needs work. It needs to be thought through. The other thing that I’m observing is

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Joshua Posamentier of Congruent 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 Joshua Posamentier was recorded in April 2020. Joshua Posamentier is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Congruent Ventures, a firm focused on sustainability-oriented technology ventures.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrap First, Then Scale with VC Funds

Faction CEO Luke Norris has executed a tremendously effective Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later strategy from Colorado. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Luke Norris: I was born in Nevada.  Sramana Mitra: What’s your background vis-a-vis

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489th Roundtable Recording on June 11, 2020: With Vincent Diallo, Interlace Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 489th 1Mby1M Roundtable June 11, 2020: With Vincent Diallo, Interlace Ventures

Zscaler Goes on an Acquisition Spree

The global lockdown conditions have resulted in organizations stepping up their spending on cyber security solutions. Enterprise cloud security company Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) is benefiting from this trend. It recently reported its third quarter results that sent the stock soaring to record high levels. The company is also using the current economic conditions to pick

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is the level of adoption and penetration into this particular marketplace? How big is the market? How many kinds in that age group are there in America? What percentage of that have you been able to crack? Stephen Spahn: What you really have is quite a large market which would include students

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Roundtable Recap: June 11 – Spotlight on Retail Tech

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Vincent Diallo, Managing Partner at Interlace Ventures, a fund focused on Retail Tech. Yotta SecureAs for entrepreneur pitches, first up was Sunil Ravipati from Santa Clara, California, pitch Yotta Secure, a Healthcare IT venture. Hodi HodiNext Demba Sow from Alsace, France, pitched Hodi Hodi, a language

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