560th Roundtable Recording with BV Jagadeesh, KAAJ Ventures

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Colors: Blooms

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 – Blooms

Blooms | Sramana Mitra, 2020 | Watercolor | 9  x 12, On Paper

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Seong Kim, Corporate Strategy & Development at Chegg Inc. (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In smaller acquisitions, what role does valuation play?

Seong Kim: It really depends on why you’re acquiring the business and what you’re ascribing the value of the business to. The role of valuation is always prevalent and important. The needle gets moved by the conviction that an acquirer is able to build around what it’s acquiring and the future state of that team as well. When you’re talking about smaller check sizes, the acquirer tends to focus on the simplest forms of consideration. It can be just cash along with some equity incentive.

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Indian Unicorns 2022: Zetwerk Brings eCommerce to Manufacturers

India’s manufacturing segment accounted for 17% of its GDP last year. While it is a big market, it still remains a highly untapped and fragmented one. India’s Unicorn entrant Zetwerk is leading the process of bringing eCommerce to this sector, and it appears to be successful.

Roundtable Recap: January 20 – Discussion on Funding Bootstrapping with Services Ventures with BV Jagdeesh

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest BV Jagadeesh, Managing Partner at KAAJ Ventures, and a super accomplished serial entrepreneur.

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Nilay Khadepau from Mumbai, India, pitched Dataplant a company focused on giving consumers better control over their data.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Seong Kim, Corporate Strategy & Development at Chegg Inc. (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What have you disclosed on the valuation on this most recent acquisition? In general, how do you think about valuation? How does valuation play into your acquisition decision?

Seong Kim: The valuation of this deal was approximately $436 million. This is based in London and Madrid. It’s definitely a key factor that impacts whether or not a deal is done, but it shouldn’t be the most important. Valuation is a dependent variable that is influenced by a multitude of factors, some of which, founders can influence and others, they can’t.