1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Deepak Gupta, Founding Partner at WEH Ventures (Part 1)

Deepak Gupta, Founding Partner at WEH Ventures, discusses his fund’s pre-seed and seed funding strategy for Indian startups. Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit about yourself as well as WEH Ventures. Deepak Gupta: I had been part of the venture ecosystem over the last 20 years off and on. In the last six or seven

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From Developer to Successful Machine Learning Entrepreneur: Aparna Dhinakaran, Co-Founder, CPO of Arize (Part 1)

We have a huge audience of developers, engineers, and programmers who want to transition to becoming successful entrepreneurs. This conversation explores the journey of such a developer. Fantastic story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where did you grow up? What kind of circumstances?

Catching Up On Readings: 397 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

It is important to not just learn the secrets of success but also understand the reasons for failure. This feature from CBInsights is a compilation of startup failure post-mortems by founders and investors. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

13 Udemy Courses On How To Raise Seed Funding in India

Risk tolerance in Indian professionals has risen significantly. It is no longer a goal to seek fat salaries at multinational firms. Finally, in India, like in the US, the idea of creating something new entices people, even if it means entertaining a high chance of failure.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Eva Yazhari, General Partner at Beyond Capital Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: My observation is that the higher end of the market is extremely active. I wouldn’t say crowded, but there’s a lot of competition. There is concept arbitrage. There have been successful companies built by copying models from elsewhere and then innovating on top of that. That’s happening in the global tech space. Then

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Eva Yazhari, General Partner at Beyond Capital Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You are investing post-revenue. What benchmarks are you using to gauge whether you can build a venture-scale company? Eva Yazhari: Because we’re a multi-sector fund, a lot of our metrics relate to specific sectors. Often, we’re looking at the growth of average order value. If it’s more of a services company, we’re looking

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February 17 – 564th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 564th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, February 17, 2022, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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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Roundtable Recap: February 10 – Discussion on Pre-Seed Funding

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Gans Subramanian, Managing Partner at Hourglass Venture Partners, and a former 1Mby1M Premium member who has now formed his own venture fund. Homeroots As for our entrepreneur pitch, we had Gil Bar-Lev from Fairfield, New Jersey, pitch Homeroots, a company already beyond $5M in annual revenue,

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