Bootstrapping Using Services from Pune: Mindbowser CEO Ayush Jain (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What was the startup that you were working on?

Ayush Jain: At that time, I was working on launching a website focused on exchanging old and new books. The idea was for people to list their books online, similar to eBay, but specifically for books. Other people could then buy them. As a book reader, I noticed that many people have lots of books, and I wanted to create a solution for that.

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Bootstrapping Using Services from Pune: Mindbowser CEO Ayush Jain (Part 1)

Services companies are easy to bootstrap, but often, they grow slowly in the beginning. How do you accelerate? This discussion is about the levers of acceleration.

656th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Investor Gus Tai (Part 1, 2024)

During this week’s roundtable, we had Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures discuss the implications of Human-centric AI, white spaces, comparables and more.

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October 3 – 657th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 657th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 3, 2024, 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 can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and REGISTER TO PITCH OR ATTEND HERE. Register and you will receive the recording by email, even if you are unable to attend. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!

656th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Partner at Nexus Venture Partners (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Just know, I have a slightly different question on capitalization of these companies. So you talk about these two kids from MIT who are commercializing their PhD thesis, I guess. You have this CalTech professor who’s commercializing his work in the domain of drug discovery using AI. Talk to me a little bit about how you structure these deals. You’re getting in at almost an R&D level.

Roundtable Recap: September 26 – AI Investment Thesis with Investor Gus Tai

During this week’s roundtable, we had Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures discuss the implications of Human-centric AI, white spaces, comparables and more.

Zets

As for pitches, first, we had Nischal Sharma from Jaipur, India, pitch Zets, a ride-sharing service.

Startrit

Next Santosh Kumar from Bengaluru, India, pitched Startrit, a traffic management and surveillance solution.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Partner at Nexus Venture Partners (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Other than H2O.ai, have you invested in any other open source AI companies since?  

Jishnu Bhattacharjee: We have invested in over twenty AI companies.

Sramana Mitra: Talk about some of them. How are you thinking about what to invest in? Do some case studies.