During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Rajeev Madhavan, Founder and General Partner at Clear Ventures, a firm focused on seed-stage deep tech investing. Live MOMO As for our entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Filip Todd pitching Live MOMO, a travel concept that leverages the remote work trend. Within 1Mby1M, we have
If you have been bootstrapping and think you are ready for investors, you need to learn how investors think. First, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Then start looking for entrepreneur – investor fit. Today I introduce you to Naren Gupta. Naren Gupta is Co-founder of Nexus Venture Partners, a
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Today’s 520th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, February 18, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. PASSWORD: startup All are welcome!
Sramana Mitra: Is the fund strategy chasing unicorns? Are all your companies looking to become unicorns? Mark Achler: No, I’m from Chicago. We are from the Midwest. I like to roll my sleeves and build real companies solving real problems. If they turn into a unicorn, then that’s great. The odds of that happening is
Sramana Mitra: You have a relatively small fund at the moment. What are your thoughts about chasing unicorns versus chasing the 2x to 5x companies? Suman Talukdar: I’m relatively new on the investing side, but I have had experience working with venture-backed companies. All the work and effort pays off when things work. When they
If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Co-founder Jeff Frieden bootstrapped Auction.com to about $180 million in revenue and profitability. Thereafter, he raised private equity financing and growth capital and ran a private company that was more than qualified to be a public Unicorn. The company had
Sramana Mitra: If you look at the public market, the tech stocks have done well. Their earnings have been good. It’s not like they are missing a lot of their numbers. Many are overshooting their numbers. It’s striking how well people have adjusted to buying technology without human interaction in person even in large sales.