1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Heather Hiles, Founder and Managing Partner at Imminent Equity (Part 1)

Heather Hiles is the Founder and Managing Partner at Imminent Equity and a pioneering entrepreneur in the Black community. Heather also has deep experience in financing Black entrepreneurs, as well as on the education side to close knowledge gaps at scale.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s get you acquainted with our audience. Tell us about you and the tracks you have traveled to get to where you are today. Tell us about what you’re working on at Imminent. What is your investment focus?

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Thursday, November 3 – 595th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 595th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, November 3, 2022, 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!

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Thought Leader in Financial Technology: DealMaker CEO Rebecca Kacaba (Part 1)

Equity Crowdfunding is evolving. This conversation highlights some of the trends.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to DealMaker.

Rebecca Kacaba: I was a capital market attorney for over a decade before founding DealMaker. The idea for DealMaker was born out of the problems my clients were having in trying to raise capital. It was too expensive and it was taking too long. I wanted to solve these problems for them.

Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Sankaet Pathak, CEO of Synapse (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You are talking about US accounts for Indian residents?

Sankaet Pathak: Yes. Their thought process stops there. They’re more focused on how much money leaves India versus what other obligations come as a function of it. Primarily, US regulators are still more relevant.

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. At some level, I feel like you might get some traction if you offer your services to Indian banks that want to provide it to their customers.

Best of Bootstrapping: Co-founders Bootstrapped to $10M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

In 2020, Coalition Technologies was still largely a services company, but also had a few products. Co-founder Jordan Brannon shared the company’s well-managed journey.

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

Jordan Brannon: I was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I grew up primarily in Washington state in a smaller community. It’s about an hour and a half south of Seattle. I have three brothers and we largely stuck to the northwest throughout my childhood.

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Sankaet Pathak, CEO of Synapse (Part 1)

Sankaet is building interesting infrastructure products for FinTech. Lots of insights, also, on open opportunities within the field for new entrepreneurs to latch onto.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Synapse.

Sankaet Pathak: I’m the Founder and CEO of Synapse. If you haven’t heard of Synapse, we are what’s considered a Banking-as-a-Service provider based in San Francisco.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Movius CEO Ananth Siva (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: There’s a part of your story that I resonate with – having a corporate number that doesn’t move around. Some other employee mans that number. When the customer calls that number, they’re bound to get somebody. That is very compelling.

Permit me to play the devil’s advocate. I think your story is more compelling when you use that value proposition than all this trust and employees combining devices. It’s a very hairy area. The reason you hear me interacting with you to this extent on this topic is that I have worked on a company within our program that went through this issue.