1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Deep domain knowledge is where a lot of those exit barriers come from, right?

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1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Yes. When you see these deals that are starting to find some velocity early on and coming to you with that as one of the proof points, what are you seeing? What kind of go-to-markets are you seeing that are giving them this kind of velocity? I understand that it takes fewer people to build software right now because of all these AI copilots and this and that.

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1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: When you say you write the Series A checks, what are you looking for in the ventures that you’re willing to come in at the Series A? Let’s start with your specialty, which is worldwide B2B SaaS.

Best of Bootstrapping: Lessons from Startup Mentoring Since 2008

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We started experimenting with the roundtable format of online mentoring way back in the fall of 2008. At the time, 1Mby1M did not exist, not even in our heads. It wasn’t until my January 2010 New Year’s Resolution that the concept was born.

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1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures (Part 1)

Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping an Enterprise Software Business for 30 Years

Dean Guida, CEO and Founder at Infragistics, has a real passion for the elegance, simplicity, and beauty of software development. He has built a company celebrating these values and shared his story with me in 2021.

Sramana Mitra: We will start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised?

Dean Guida: When I was six years old, my mom and dad got divorced. I moved to Miami, Florida. I saw how much my mom struggled to make money for us. When I was eight years old, I just wanted to work. I convinced the maintenance man in the apartment that I was living in to let me do his work. He would pay me off the books.

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