Building a Terrific EdTech Venture in India: Pallav Pandey, CEO of Uolo (Part 1)

Pallav is a serial entrepreneur and one of the cofounders of Knowlarity. Readers may recall our Knowlarity story as told by Ambarish Gupta. Pallav’s newest venture is a fantastic case study in positioning and Go-to-Market Strategy for EdTech. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were

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Catching Up On Readings: M&A Trends in 2024

This report from Gartner analyzes the top trends in M&A for 2024. These include unlocking technology M&A opportunities amidst macroeconomic ambiguity, acquiring AI-based businesses, and navigating an increasingly complex regulatory environment. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Best of Bootstrapping: The Disbalance Between VC Compensation and the Entrepreneur

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  The compensation disbalance in the Venture Capital / Private Equity world remains quite stark. Take a look at the chart a friend once sent me showing some concrete data on VC compensation, and Private Equity industry performance.

New Entrepreneur Mistakes Course Plus November Coupons

In addition to offering you up to 85% off the following tech startup courses on Udemy this month, we are introducing the new course, Case Studies of Entrepreneur Mistakes with Sramana Mitra. Throughout this course we talk about common mistakes that entrepreneurs make, and look at a lot of different case studies to illustrate the

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Virtual Company with a Paycheck

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  FormAssembly Founder and CEO Cedric Savarese’s story is a textbook case study of the kind of entrepreneur we want to see emerge and grow in every corner of the world: a solo entrepreneur who is a developer and a product guy capable of getting to

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Roundtable Recap: November 9 – Broad, Generic Value Propositions Don’t Work

During this week’s roundtable, we had two very diverse pitches. Move2.AI First we had Bruno Quemener in Rennes, France, pitch Move2.AI. Bruno aims to offer AI innovation consulting to enterprises. My take is that this is too broad a value proposition and needs to be tightened. Labby Then Julia Somerdin from Boston, Massachusetts, pitched Labby, a

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Building a Venture Scale AI Company: Observe.AI CEO Swapnil Jain (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What did AI do that was really unique to your product? Swapnil Jain: We’ve always used LLMs in our tech stack. The key technology was transcription. A human doesn’t need to listen to a call. We can make it much more easier for them to understand the call. Then we also built a

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Catching Up On Readings: Top 10 Accelerators

This report from CB Insights features the top 10 most active startup accelerators and their investment patterns. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.