1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alok Nandan, Founder General Partner at First Rays Venture Partners (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You are looking for a founder that you feel good about. That is your answer. Alok Nandan: Unfortunately, it is subjective because at the seed stage, you don’t have that many metrics to go after. Series A and beyond, you have numbers and data that you can look at. At the seed stage,

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Ben Forgan, CEO of Hologram (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What is the level of adoption of the IoT that you are talking about in today’s universe? When you calculate your total available market, what does that constitute and what percentage of TAM have you or your competitors been able to convert so far? Ben Forgan: The short answer is that it is

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Journey of a Child Entrepreneur in India

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Varun Shoor is the Founder of Kayako, a company offering advanced helpdesk management software. When we spoke in 2014, Varun was steering the overall direction of the company and as customer experience fanatic and lead product architect, taking an active role in the design and development

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alok Nandan, Founder General Partner at First Rays Venture Partners (Part 1)

Alok Nandan, Founding General Partner, First Rays Venture Partners, discusses the firm’s investment thesis which is very well-defined and focused. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start today’s session with a conversation with Alok Nandan, Founder and General Partner of First Rays Venture Partners. Alok Nandan: Great to be back. Thanks for having me.

530th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Shane Neman, Neman Ventures

Shane Neman is Founder of EZ Texting, JoonBug.com, and Principal at Neman Ventures. Shane has bootstrapped two companies as a solo entrepreneur, found successful exits for both, and is now an investor. Needless to say, he has no bias against solopreneurs.

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Ben Forgan, CEO of Hologram (Part 1)

Ben discusses IoT connectivity and use cases. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Hologram. Ben Forgan: I’m the CEO of Hologram. Hologram is a connectivity startup focused on providing internet access for IoT devices. We talk about wanting to be able to connect any device to any network instantaneously anywhere.

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Catching Up On Readings: State of Retail Tech Q1’21

This report from CB Insights covers the global retail tech investment trends in key financial verticals, partnership activity, and top deals in the sector. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Spence Green, CEO of Lilt (Part 4)

Spence Green: One of the first applications of digital computers for cryptography and bomb-making were developed with machine translation. People started working on this in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Machine translation research surged and flowed over the following decade and it took off after 9/11 when the United States government realized that it

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