Ben Narasin: You build your business up to $5 million in revenue. It seems like a healthy lifestyle business to me. If you have a 40% gross margin, that means $2 million is flowing to you. If you can keep your operational expenses low, that can be a great living. Later, there are people who
Bradley Harrison, Founder, Managing Partner at Scout Ventures, discusses how military professionals are engaging in entrepreneurship and an eco-system supporting them. Quite fascinating!
Warren Weiss is Managing Partner at WestWave Capital. We had a terrific discussion on small exits as seen by a seasoned investor.
Sramana Mitra: The most important thing is that big market opportunity. Hypergrowth is not a natural state of business. If every entrepreneur thinks that we have to achieve hypergrowth, that is not viable. Most businesses don’t have the characteristics of being able to meet that hypergrowth criteria. Ben Narasin: Absolutely agree. Venture wasn’t built to
This report from Gartner analyzes the IaaS market, which grew 40.7% in 2020 to $64.3 billion. Amazon retained the No. 1 position in the IaaS market in 2020, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and Huawei. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
Sramana Mitra: What is your investment thesis? Tell me a bit more about what you like to invest in? What problems in the world do you have your eye on? What segment do you specifically like? Is e-commerce still an interest? Ben Narasin: I make a very proactive effort to meet every VC in the
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 541st 1Mby1M Roundtable with Bradley Harrison, Scout Ventures
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 542nd 1Mby1M Roundtable with Warren Weiss, WestWave Capital