Catching Up On Readings: EY Global IPO Trends Q2 2022

This report from Ernst & Young analyzes the global IPO trends. The energy sector dominated the top 10 IPOs and replaced tech as the top fundraiser. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: NorthOne CEO Eytan Bensoussan (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What is the revenue trajectory that you can share? How many subscribers do you have? What is the situation now? Eytan Bensoussan: We don’t share specifics on that. What COVID did for us was, it actually put jet fuel in the engine and nobody told us. We thought it was the end of

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: NorthOne CEO Eytan Bensoussan (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: It’s a very crucial point where you raise your first institutional round of financing. It doesn’t have to be an institutional round, but it has to be a seed round. How much was the seed round? Eytan Bensoussan: It was $1.7 million. Sramana Mitra: The investors are from New York??

584th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC

Bhaskar Ghosh, Partner and CTO at 8VC, discusses his firm’s investment thesis, and we have an interesting discussion about the definition of a “good” entrepreneur.

August 11 – 585th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 585th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, August 11, 2022, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 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: July 28 – What is a “Good” Entrepreneur?

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Bhaskar Ghosh, Partner and CTO at 8VC, discussing his firm’s investment thesis. We had an interesting discussion about the definition of a “good” entrepreneur. UpTerra As for our entrepreneur pitch, we had Roland Van der Meer from San Francisco, California, pitch UpTerra, a fascinating AgTech company

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584th Roundtable Recording with Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: NorthOne CEO Eytan Bensoussan (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How were you financing a 15-people operation? Eytan Bensoussan: A lot of it is personal. We had a very early investor who helped us out. Then it was about making the very tiny amount of money that we had last as if it was 10x the amount. This was about being scrappy, extremely

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