Catching Up On Readings: IT Spending 2021

This report from Garner expects IT spending to grow 6.2% in 2021. Enterprise software is expected to have the strongest rebound of 8.8% as remote work environments are expanded and improved. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ashmeet Sidana, Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Talk about areas in which you are looking for companies. Ashmeet Sidana: There are two recent trends that I have observed and have started talking about. One builds on an old trend that data is the new oil. This is where data is an important commodity that drives businesses like Google, Twitter, and

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516th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Padmaja Ruparel, Indian Angel Network

Padmaja Ruparel is Co-founder, Indian Angel Network and Founding Partner, IAN Fund. The Indian startup eco-system has grown tremendously, and IAN has contributed heavily in that evolution.

517th Roundtable Recording on January 28, 2021: With Ken Elefant, Sorenson Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 517th 1Mby1M Roundtable Jan. 28, 2021: With Ken Elefant, Sorenson Ventures

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vishesh Rajaram, Managing Partner at Speciale Invest (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: There are a lot of SaaS platforms that are entrenched in enterprise workflow and they have a lot of customers. The one that you are talking about is going after customers that are deeply entrenched in Zoom for example. To what extent is a company like this leveraging that deep penetration of another

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ashmeet Sidana, Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: A few weeks ago, I talked with an old friend of mine who I’ve known for 20 years. His name is Murli Thirumale. He’s done several startups in the storage space. He built Portworx and sold it to Pure Storage. Pure storage is like an old storage company that was a hardware company

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Best of Bootstrapping: Meltwater Founder Bootstrapped to $200M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Jorn Lyseggen, Founder and Executive Chairman of Meltwater, started the company in Norway and scaled organically to $200 million. Fascinating journey! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vishesh Rajaram, Managing Partner at Speciale Invest (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What about companies that are uniquely Indian? What about enterprise software that is facing the global market? India is facing e-commerce and the whole digital commerce world. What about categories or styles of companies that are uniquely Indian? Is that on your radar? Vishesh Rajaram: If they are on the enterprise side, they

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