
The toughest round of funding an entrepreneur seeks to raise is pre-seed investment. It sports the lowest probability of success, the highest amount of ambiguity, is poorly defined, and is causing the greatest amount of confusion and road wreck out there.
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Udemy has over six million students who are learning Machine Learning on the platform. Many of these students are aspiring entrepreneurs.
Here is a list of Udemy entrepreneurship courses based on the 1Mby1M methodology that would help them put one foot before the other to get a startup strategy figured out.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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