Roundtable Recap: September 2 – Discussion on the SaaS-enabled Marketplace Trend

During this week’s roundtable, we had an excellent discussion with Claudia Giannoni from London, UK, pitching Relai, a real estate marketplace leveraging the SaaS-enabled marketplace trend that we like a lot.

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Roundtable Recap: August 26 – A Deep Dive into Blockchain Infrastructure

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Hamiz Awan, Founder and Partner at Plutus21 Capital, discussed BlockChain infrastructure and platforms.

xAQUA ODT

As for entrepreneur pitches, first up was Sanjib Nayak from Sacramento, CA, pitch xAQUA ODT, a data management venture that needs precise positioning.

Silk or Lace

Next, Suran Yoo from Dallas, Texas, pitched Silk or Lace, a hair piece marketplace that is already in revenue.

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Roundtable Recap: August 19 – A Discussion on Small Exits

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Warren Weiss, Managing Partner at WestWave Capital and former General Partner at Foundation Capital. We had a terrific discussion on small exits as seen by a seasoned investor.

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Brian Kibby, CEO of Modern Campus (Part 1)

Brian discusses a gigantic white space in continuing education that colleges and universities have left open. Modern Campus is trying to address this gap, among other things. Very interesting conversation.

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

Roundtable Recap: August 12 – Spotlight on Veteran Entrepreneurship

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Bradley Harrison, Founder, Managing Partner at Scout Ventures, for a terrific discussion on how military professionals are engaging in entrepreneurship and an eco-system supporting them. Quite fascinating!

atexto

As for our entrepreneur pitch, we had Esteban Gorupicz from Palo Alto, California, pitch atexto, an AI speech recognition technology for improving the accuracy of speech applications.

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Sridhar Iyengar, CEO of Elemental Machines (Part 1)

We observed the movement of system administrators becoming DevOps engineers.

Sridhar is leading an effort of moving lab administrators becoming LabOps engineers with the help of cutting edge technology like IoT.

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Jim Xiao, CEO of Mason (Part 1)

Jim is building an AWS or Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service company for rapid deployment of IOT products and use cases.

Startups can also leverage the platform to quickly build IoT products. Fascinating discussion. 

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

Bootstrapping Using Services to $10M: Zimit CEO James Cramer (Part 1)

Among the biases of the Venture Capital industry that need to be categorically ignored, Bootstrapping Using Services happens to be on the top of the list. Read on for yet another fantastic textbook case study.

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