Ramping Up For The DataStax – 1Mby1M Startup Accelerator Challenge

The DataStax-1Mby1M Startup Accelerator Challenge will launch on September 9, 2021, at 8:00 am Pacific. This program is focused on supporting entrepreneurs building companies on the Apache Cassandra™ stack. Learn more here and register for the kick-off session here. Sramana talks about the program at this DataStax event last week:

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Warren Weiss, Managing Partner at WestWave Capital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You started off by saying that you’ve already had seven exits within three years. Talk to me a little bit more about the exit. What are the circumstances of these? That’s unusual for a small micro-VC to have seven exits within a three-year period. Warren Weiss: One of the areas that we’re in

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Best of Bootstrapping: iText was Bootstrapped from Belgium

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  iText CEO Bruno Lowagie bootstrapped a highly profitable company from Belgium. Since our conversation in 2015, iText was acquired by ThinkFree in 2018. Sramana Mitra: Where are you from? Bruno Lowagie: I’m from Belgium.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Warren Weiss, Managing Partner at WestWave Capital (Part 1)

Warren Weiss is Managing Partner at WestWave Capital. We had a terrific discussion on small exits as seen by a seasoned investor. Sramana Mitra: Warren is very well-known in the industry as “Bunny Weiss”. That’s his nickname. I’ve known him for a very long time. He was a General Partner at Foundation Capital for many

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Catching Up On Readings: Europe FinTech Unicorns 2021

This feature from CrunchBase News analyzes the trends in venture funding for European FinTech startups which made up a third of the unicorns this year. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Nectarine Credit CEO Alex Armitage (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How did you get your first customers? Alex Armitage: We have some other businesses. A couple of them are e-commerce companies. We knew that space quite well. We knew that this was a problem. We had hundreds of relationships with companies in various industries. We had hundreds of contacts in that space. We

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543rd Roundtable Recording with Hamiz Awan, Plutus21 Capital

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 543rd 1Mby1M Roundtable with Hamiz Awan, Plutus21 Capital

Best of Bootstrapping: Zephyr Health Bootstrapped First, Raised Money Later

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Continuing with our theme of Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later, here is Founder William King’s story of bootstrapping Zephyr Health, a robust company in the healthcare industry. This strategy led to funding by Kleiner Perkins by the time we spoke in 2015. Zephyr Health was acquired

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