647th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Rajeev Madhavan, Clear Ventures

Rajeev Madhavan, Founder and General Partner at Clear Ventures, discusses how he is investing in AI startups and what he is learning from the market.

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647th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: July 25 – AI Investment Thesis Discussion with Rajeev Madhavan, Clear Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Rajeev Madhavan, Founder and General Partner at Clear Ventures. We discussed how Rajeev is investing in AI startups and what he is learning from the market.

Lavva

As for pitches, first up, we had Elizabeth Fisher from Brooklyn, New York, pitch Lavva, a natural probiotic.

Foundation Labs

Next, we had Justin Leffew from Columbus, Ohio, pitch Foundation Labs, a concept stage venture.

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The Startup Velocity Question: Positioning Drives Repeatability

There’s a common problem with Founder-led Sales: Positioning changes on the fly on a daily basis.

Canadian Brothers Bootstrapping to $40M Exit: Chris Sinkinson, Co-Founder AppArmor (Part 1)

I always love Bootstrapping to Exit stories. Chris and his brother bootstrapped a wonderful startup and sold it for $40M. Read on for the nuances.

Sramana Mitra: All right, Chris, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised? What kind of backgrounds?

The Startup Velocity Question: Positioning Drives Segmentation

What problem does your product solve with a unique unfair advantage?

What ideal customer has that problem?

These questions are at the heart of Positioning.

647th 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 647th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 25, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!        

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Ashmeet Sidana, Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Power story is a very complex story. As you were talking about your training, I was thinking about my engineering training and one of my favorite courses at MIT was Anant Agarwal’s VLSI design course. That is actually very automatable, right? Now you train AI to do chip design, and AI can design great chips. This is a highly automatable problem.

Ashmeet Sidana: It’s ironic that one of the first applications for AI has been software development. Software is being developed using AI, which is wonderful.