1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let me try to unpack what you said. COVID has been a gamechanger. Until COVID, you wanted people to come and be in Silicon Valley for the three-month program. What is your current perspective on geography? Can they be from anywhere? Geoff Ralston: It is certainly true that the pandemic left us with

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Bret Larsen, CEO of eVisit (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. You prefaced the comparison with the existing EMRs versus yourself by saying that the old school EMRs were primarily billing systems whereas you are focusing more on the experience. One of the things that is viable in an electronic setting that is not viable in an in-person setting is recording of the

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Evariant Using Services

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Yet another case study of a services company successfully bootstrapping a product, then raising Venture Capital. Here is my conversation with Bill Moschella, Co-founder of Evariant, from 2015. Sramana Mitra: Let’s begin at the beginning of your personal story. Where are you from? Where were you

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator (Part 1)

Geoff Ralston is President of Y Combinator. We had a terrific discussion on what we each are seeing in the startup ecosystem. Sramana Mitra: Geoff has been involved with Y Combinator right from the beginning. Why don’t we take a look back on the evolution of Silicon Valley and Y Combinator.

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Bret Larsen, CEO of eVisit (Part 1)

Terrific conversation on the future of Telemedicine. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing yourself as well as eVisit to our audience. Bret Larsen: I’m one of the founders and CEO of eVisit, a market-leading virtual care platform built for enterprise health systems. At this point in the pandemic, we’ve all experienced a telemedicine visit. We

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544th Roundtable Recording on September 2, 2021

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 544th 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Catching Up On Readings: Y Combinator Summer 2021

This feature from TechCrunch covers the highlights of the recently held Y Combinator Summer 2021 Demo Day event where 377 startups presented their pitches. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

September 9 – 545th Roundtable to Kick-off the DataStax – 1Mby1M Startup Challenge

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 545th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, September 9, 2021, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. During this program, we will kick-off the DataStax-1Mby1M Startup Challenge. Entrepreneurs building companies on the Apache Cassandra™ stack will be given first priority to Pitch. If you are a serious entrepreneur,

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