632nd 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: February 1 – Premature Funding Plans Never Materialize

During this week’s roundtable, we dealt with two scenarios that each need to figure out bootstrapping strategies to mitigate the lack of early stage funding.

gestr

First, we had Anthony Dobaj from Draper, Utah, pitch gestr. This discussion is a good case study for crowdfunding as a way of early bootstrapping.

Budysdilpoa

Next, Chetan Barot from Nairobi, Kenya, pitched Budysdilpoa, a super app for Kenya.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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631st 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

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Colors: La Foret VII

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – La Foret VII

La Foret VII | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Pastel, Ink | 8  x 8, On Paper

Building a Capital Efficient Second Venture: LiftLab CEO John Wallace (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Now, let’s double click down on the concept of experiments. Once you were in these POC situations and started to gain some traction, what kinds of experiments are customers running?

Cloud Stocks: Analysis of Microsoft’s AI Platform Strategy

This week, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced its second quarter results that surpassed market expectations driven by its leading position in GenAI. After its success with PaaS, it is now looking at replicating it to AI platform or AI models.

Building a Capital Efficient Second Venture: LiftLab CEO John Wallace (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So let’s double click down on a couple of things here. You mentioned a different dataset. So, what dataset is LiftLab using?

John Wallace: In our last company, we were essentially working with user level data, device level data, and log data. Now, we’re working with aggregated data. So we’re working with time series, and the methods are much more around econometrics. So it, it was a new data set and new algorithms.

Sramana Mitra: And what, what is the source of this data?

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