Apple Looks to India for Sales and Production

Earlier last week, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) announced its second quarter results that surpassed market expectations. This was the second consecutive quarter that Apple reported a decline in the revenues. But the market was very pleased with iPhone sales that surged 15% due to the strong reception of iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 plus.

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Building an AI-Powered Pharmaceutical Services Business: VIDA CEO Susan Wood (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Did you work in engineering all through this period?

Susan Wood: No. When I left Hopkins, I actually worked in a business capacity. It was a very technical sale. I probably wasn’t as heavy on my programming ability as a lot of the people in the company. I started learning my MBA on the street at that time.

Sramana Mitra: Technical selling is a fabulous training ground for a tech career. They tend to be very good product people.

Building an AI-Powered Pharmaceutical Services Business: VIDA CEO Susan Wood (Part 1)

This conversation not only highlights Susan and VIDA’s journey but is an excellent analysis of the Pharmaceutical Services space. If you’re looking to do/doing a startup in this field, the conversation should be illuminating.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background?

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Colors: Mendocino 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 – Mendocino VII

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Catching Up On Readings: Google I/O 2023

This feature from The Verge covers the highlights of the Google I/O, Google’s annual developers conference held in Mountain View, California last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Colors: Mendocino VI

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 – Mendocino VI

Mendocino VI | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Pastel, Brush Pen | 9  x 12, On Paper

606th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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

Roundtable Recap: May 11 – Startups Working on Various Facets of Fashion E-Commerce

During this week’s roundtable, we had four excellent discussions. For those of you following these roundtables and the recordings, especially if you’re primarily in the learning phase, please use them as case studies and exercises that you can work on. Ask yourself how would you process my feedback? Put yourself in the investor’s shoes. Put yourself in the entrepreneur’s shoes.

MADSTO

First up, we had Prashanth Sathri from Bangalore, India, pitch MADSTO, a plus sized men’s clothing brand from India.

Zosper

Next, we had Diana Tkhamadokova from Dubai, UAE, pitch Zosper, a personalization front-end for fashion retailers.

Pabloo

Then Pabloo Alsahlani from San Francisco, California, pitched Pabloo, an app for processing store-credit for retailers of fashion and footwear.

Skimmet

Next M’Lisa Ellis from Las Vegas, Nevada, pitched Skimmet, a social media tracking app for brand mentions.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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