1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With John Frankel, Partner at ff Venture Capital 2021 (Part 1)

John Frankel is Partner at ff Venture Capital. We had an extensive discussion about Covid’s impact on the startup ecosystem, the changes we notice, so forth. Sramana Mitra: Let’s catch up. How has the pandemic year been? What are you doing these days?

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rajeev Madhavan, Founder and General Partner at Clear Ventures 2021 (Part 2)

Rajeev Madhavan: You have IoT devices like headphones where you do not need to replace the batteries. First, it untethers the device from all the electrical connections that you need. Second, it gives you the ability and the freedom of not being tied to a bunch of battery replacements that you have to go through.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rajeev Madhavan, Founder and General Partner at Clear Ventures 2021 (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Rajeev Madhavan is Founder and General Partner at Clear Ventures, a firm focused on seed-stage deep tech investing. Sramana Mitra: We are going to start today’s session with a conversation with Rajeeev Madhavan, the founder and general partner of Clear Ventures. I have known

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April 22 – 527th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 527th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, April 22, 2021, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Chris Sullens, CEO of CentralReach (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What are the open problems? From your vantage point, what do you see out there that is not being addressed? If you were to look for other little companies to acquire, what kind of things are you looking for? This speaks directly to our audience who are entrepreneurs. Chris Sullens: It’s a good

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Best of Bootstrapping: Founder Bootstrapped Axosoft with a Paycheck

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Bootstrapping using a paycheck is still a real trend. Here’s the case study of Axosoft shared by Founder Hamid Shojaee in 2014. Sramana Mitra: Hamid, tell us a bit about yourself. Where were you born and raised and in what kind of background? Hamid Shojaee: I was

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mark Lee, CEO of Splashtop (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Where do you have your telesales team? Mark Lee: The Inbound team for the US market is mostly in San Jose. We have a team in Taipei for the APAC market. For the European market, we have a team in Amsterdam. We also have a team in Tokyo and Singapore. Singapore is focused

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Chris Sullens, CEO of CentralReach (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: All of that you have talked about subsequent to the first EMR discussion is much broader than EMR. You are doing more of a vertical type of service within the EMR autism space.  Chris Sullens: Yes, exactly. The way we think about it is, if you look at the lifespan of an individual,

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