Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Salil and Kiran Pande, Co-Founders of VMock (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Go down one level and explain more about the technology. 

Salil Pande: What we have done is essentially provide feedback on your resume. For feedback from someone qualified today, they would have to spend boatloads of time with you. There is an assumed knowledge that they should have about what’s a good resume and what’s a good role that is fit for you. Then they should be articulate in giving you concise, objective, and actionable feedback.

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551st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Sandeep Sardana, BluePointe Ventures

Sandeep Sardana is Founder and General Partner at BluePointe Ventures. We had a terrific discussion on how we each look for a startup story through financial metrics.

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Thursday, November 4 – 552nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 552nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, November 4, 2021, 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.

During this roundtable program, Sramana Mitra will be hosting a Workshop on How to Build Communities of Entrepreneurs EVERYWHERE. Following the workshop, we will hold our usual entrepreneur pitch session.

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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548th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Lloyed Lobo, Co-Founder of Boast.ai (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How did you manage the early phase where you had to stay afloat to get paid?

Lloyed Lobo: With the help of loans, houses bank loans, credit cards, and very lean teams.

Sramana Mitra: How many were you?

Lloyed Lobo: When we started, it was just me and my co-founder. Then there was a whole bunch of people. It was hard making payroll. A lot of credit to my co-founder because he funded it out of his personal cash to make payroll many times. We also got loans on my house and Alex’s house. They were very hard times. One of the things for us was our wives have been very supportive.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Salil and Kiran Pande, Co-Founders of VMock (Part 1)

Salil and Kiran Pande have built a capital-efficient AI company from India addressing the global career services market.

It’s a wonderful conversation that works in both AI thought leadership and also their entrepreneurial journey. Enjoy!

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself, your co-founder, and VMock.

Best of Bootstrapping: Wrike Founder Bootstrapped First, Raised Money Later

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

Wrike Founder Andrew Filev has built a company with a rigorous data-driven approach. Learn how from our conversation in 2015.

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?

Andrew Filev: I was born in St. Petersburg in Russia. I got interested in computers pretty early. I spent a lot of my childhood playing with computers, building and programming, and designing. I also had a big interest in other sciences as well. I competed in different math, physics, and chemistry competitions.

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548th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Lloyed Lobo, Co-Founder of Boast.ai (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let me probe one thing here. When you were doing this manual customer servicing, was it more of a rule-based engine than pure AI?

Lloyed Lobo: First, it was fully manual. The rules-based engine was the Wizard-of-Oz MVP. It looks like technology but, on the backend, humans are doing it. There are two elements. You are collecting data. Then you need to process that data and generate the outcome. Then we started doing this data collection online where people can upload everything.

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Raising money is a huge challenge. To be able to raise any money at all, you must first understand how investors think.

This specific course covers how post-seed and pre-Series A investors analyze startups and what they are looking for. We will have in-depth conversations around startups and funding with several real-world investors.