
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 664th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, December 5, 2024, at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 5 p.m. CET / 9:30 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!
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:


During this week’s roundtable, we had Krishnakumar Natarajan, Co-founder at Mela Ventures discussing his firm’s AI investment thesis.
Zukino
As for our entrepreneur pitches, up first, Ankush Banik from Bengaluru, India, pitched Zukino, a fashion personalization venture.
AlphaSheet
Then Manoj Taneja from Noida, India, pitched AlphaSheet, a data analytics venture.
ReealTech
Next, we had Saurabh Upadhyay from Gujarat, India, pitch ReealTech a real estate virtual tour venture.
MarketSquare
Last up, Sachin Sukumar from Bengaluru, India, pitched MarketSquare, a retail concept for new grocery brands.
You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:


Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Viola Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI Investment thesis. If you have been following this series, you know that it has yielded a lot of insights.
>>>Sramana Mitra: In a fifteen-year span, the early venture guys are trying to go to $100 million in revenue and commensurate valuation in five to seven years. So, if they want to cash out the fact that you’re staying private in 15 years, that means that there is going to be some amount of change in ownership and that’s reasonable.
Do you want to go public or do you want to stay private?
>>>Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Viola Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI Investment thesis. If you have been following this series, you know that it has yielded a lot of insights.
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Sramana Mitra: That means architecturally, you’re going to put a recording and transcription agent on the iPad, this is not happening on the cloud, right?
Daniel Cane: Right. There are several reasons for this approach. First and foremost, it’s about performance and latency. By keeping everything on the device, we’re minimizing the amount of information leaving the iPad, which enhances security. The application operates transiently, generating a temporary transcript.
>>>Sramana Mitra: Double click down for me on the AI aspect. I know you were doing AI right up front, but of course, AI has evolved. The market has evolved. Market’s receptivity to AI has evolved. AI has come of age, so to speak in the last fifteen years. Where are you with AI? What are you doing with AI? What are you seeing in the adoption of AI?
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