Catching Up On Readings: Chip Innovation

This feature from The New York Times looks at how the semiconductor field, despite chip shortage, is entering a surprising new era of creativity, from industry giants to innovative start-ups seeing a spike in funding from venture capitalists that traditionally avoided chip makers. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sumant Mandal, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at March Capital (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What we also see in the Bootstrapping to Exit mode of company building is a lot of acquisition hires. We have sold companies in our portfolio in that mode. These are typically companies with a little bit of angel financing that go straight for an exit. We pulled a company to Qualys, for

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Surviving Covid with a Bootstrapped Venture: Kristi Herold, CEO of JAM (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Has your sports league business come to a complete standstill?  Kristi Herold: Yes, it’s gone, but it will come back.  Sramana Mitra: Yes, it will come back, but you will just have to survive this period. 

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sumant Mandal, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at March Capital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The pool of talent has also broadened. Even a little country like Uruguay now has a couple of unicorns. I remember we did a case study a long time ago where there were two founders that met on the internet. One was from Ireland and the other was from Montevideo in Uruguay. When

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Surviving Covid with a Bootstrapped Venture: Kristi Herold, CEO of JAM (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: It also depends on what you are trying to accomplish because cash acquisitions are easy to rationalize on your balance sheet. If it’s an equity acquisition joint venture with another player, then that is not so easy to value. That is why I was probing that issue. Let’s go back to what happened

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sumant Mandal, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at March Capital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Are you saying that you are willing to write a $5 million check on a concept if those criteria are there? Sumant Mandal: Yes.  Sramana Mitra: That is unusual these days, because people want the pre-seed and the seed guys to finance the company to significant traction before they are willing to write

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Best of Bootstrapping: Sourcing Global Ventures with Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad

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 Investor Introductions page. Then start looking for entrepreneur – investor fit. Today I introduce you to Ann Winblad. Ann Winblad, Co-founder and Managing Director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, is one of

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May 13 – 530th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 530th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, May 13, 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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