704th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Sandeep Sardana, BluePointe Ventures

Sandeep Sardana, Founder and General Partner at BluePointe Ventures, discusses his firm’s vertical AI investment thesis.

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704th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: October 16 – AI Investment Thesis with Sandeep Sardana, BluePointe Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had Sandeep Sardana, Founder and General Partner at BluePointe Ventures, discuss his firm’s vertical AI investment thesis. Beards & Shears As for the pitches, first up today, we had Shubham Mishra from Pune, India, pitch Beards & Shears, a men’s grooming brand. Korture Next we had Shishir Modur and SK

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Building an AI EdTech Company: College Guidance Network CEO Jon Carson (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What about the financing strategy of this business? You’ve done venture-funded companies before. You’ve had exits. You were coming into this business with your own personal needs. Did you bootstrap the beginning? Did you fund it right away?

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped an E-commerce Venture to $50M

When we spoke in 2018, SmartBuyGlasses Co-CEO David Menning had bootstrapped a global e-commerce venture from Hong Kong to $50M. Splendid execution! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? David Menning: I grew up in Sydney. I’ve

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Building an AI EdTech Company: College Guidance Network CEO Jon Carson (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double click down on pricing in all these different products. How has your pricing evolved? What was the pricing on the first version, which was just masterclass style?

Startup Bangladesh: Pros and Cons of Local Accelerators

The Accelerator Conundrum is a multipart series that challenges the prevailing wisdom of the tech startup ecosystem that entrepreneurs should Blitzscale out of the gate. Written by Sramana Mitra, the Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million (1Mby1M), the world’s first global virtual accelerator, it emphatically argues that a better strategy is to Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later, focus on

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Startup Bangladesh: Why a Bootstrap-First Philosophy is Essential for Acceleration

The Accelerator Conundrum is a multipart series that challenges the prevailing wisdom of the tech startup ecosystem that entrepreneurs should Blitzscale out of the gate. Written by Sramana Mitra, the Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million (1Mby1M), the world’s first global virtual accelerator, it emphatically argues that a better strategy is to Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later, focus on

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