523rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Tim Guleri, Sierra Ventures

Tim Guleri is Managing Director at Sierra Ventures. We have a terrific discussion on Business Model Innovation and Distribution Innovation that Tim believes trumps technology innovation. We go through some excellent examples. Do give this a listen!

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2021: SecurelyShare, Bengaluru, India

SecurelyShare is a bootstrapped company with a deep focus on Data Security, Data Governance, and Data Privacy. It provides enterprises a dedicated platform for managing customer data privacy. Founded in 2017, the company has seven US patents and has already booked $1M in ARR.

Best of Bootstrapping: Duda Co-founders Bootstrap with Paychecks

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Itai Sadan is the Co-founder and CEO of Duda, a company that turns desktop websites into mobile sites. When we spoke in 2013, Itai had over 10 years of experience in business development, partner management, program management, and development. Prior to founding Duda (formerly

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Viola Ventures (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Daniel Cohen, General partner at Viola Ventures, discusses AI, PaaS, and deep tech investments. Sramana Mitra: We have known each other for ten years. We have observed the industry for a very long time. We often have guests with whom we’ve had long relationships.

Catching Up On Readings: Innovations in 2D Materials

This feature from The Wall Street Journal looks at the innovations and experiments beings done with 2D materials like Graphene that are used in microchips and could replace Silicon in the future. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ken Elefant, Partner and Co-Founder at Sorenson Ventures 2021 (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: When you back these seed-stage companies, what are you looking for? It’s not inexpensive to build like this, so are you writing checks on a concept based on the background and domain expertise of the entrepreneurs?  Ken Elefant: Most of our investments in Sorenson Ventures are pre-revenue. It could just be an entrepreneur

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ken Elefant, Partner and Co-Founder at Sorenson Ventures 2021 (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: On your point on needing smart engineers to do things, it has always been my observation that there are only a finite number of those people. We need abstractions and we need ways to enable and equip people who are not these really smart engineers. This is one of the reasons why I

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524th Roundtable Recording on March 25, 2021: With Cindy Padnos, Illuminate Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 524th 1Mby1M Roundtable March 25, 2021: With Cindy Padnos, Illuminate Ventures