Catching Up On Readings: Top 10 Influencers 2015

Time Magazine features the Top 10 Influencers on LinkedIn in 2015. The list includes Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Sramana Mitra. Thank you readers for your support! For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Are You Chasing Investors Ahead of Customers?

Startups are trying to blitzscale and become Unicorns while the market around is falling apart. In the last 18 months, numerous erstwhile Unicorns have stopped growing and started failing.Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later is a MUCH better strategy than Blitzscaling with ridiculous amounts of capital. In 1Mby1M, we prefer Bootstrapping early, then raising small amounts

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1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Mark Phillips, Founder and Managing Partner at 11 Tribes Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Yes. Most VCs and certainly Andreessen Horowitz are operating with a unicorn chasing mindset. This particular fundraise by Andreesen Horowitz is absurd because to give returns to limited partners on a $20 billion fund makes no sense.

Building a Global Hardcore Financial Technology Company from Brazil: Ricardo Josua, CEO of Pismo (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What is your engineering team in Brazil like? How big is it? Is it all in one place? Ricardo Josua: It’s spread around the world. We have 280 engineers at this point. Sramana Mitra: In Sao Paulo? Ricardo Josua: No, they’re remote. Maybe 120 are in Sao Paulo. We have become remote-first. People

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Spotlight on Entrepreneurship in Utah

The Economist recently did an article titled Why Startups Are Leaving Silicon Valley. The positive message in the article is that entrepreneurship has now spread around the world. Compelling ventures are getting built everywhere. Today, we put the spotlight on Utah. Utah’s first major break came with Omniture which Adobe acquired in 2009 for $1.8 billion. Founder

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ashu Garg of Foundation Capital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: In some cases, the newsroom analogy is probably not the right analogy. Think about a toothbrush brand. That’s now news-oriented. If you think about how to do content marketing for those kinds of brands, it’s a very difficult problem. Ashu Garg: In the newsroom analogy, I’m using the word very loosely. It’s the

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