Roundtable Recap: October 22 – Exploring Post Covid Startup Ideas

During this week’s roundtable, we had a discussion on my article, 8 Startup Ideas for the Post COVID World.

Travel project

Abe Lederman from Los Alamos, New Mexico, is considering two of them, and we discussed both in some detail:

Facilitating Travel Experiences

Distributing the Workforce

Abe is both an alum of the 1Mby1M Premium program, and a current member exploring a new venture with us.

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Roundtable Recap: October 15 – Brainstorming Post Covid Startup Ideas

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Elizabeth Yin, General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed investment firm.

Relefant

As for our entrepreneur pitch, this week we had Marko Lauhiala from Helsinki, Finland, pitching Relefant.

In addition, we had a great brainstorming session around one of my ideas from 8 Startup Ideas for the Post-Covid World around travel:

Facilitating Travel Experiences

There are two major trends that the world will need to take in stride in the Covid era: air travel will become expensive and people will be working remotely. The startup idea addressing these trends as explained here would be a $5-$10 Billion market cap company, a Unicorn.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Roundtable Recap: October 8 – Find Your Segment Within Large Markets

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Suman Talukdar, Founder and Managing Partner at AiSprouts.VC.

Examd

As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Shantanu Dev from Plainsboro, New Jersey, pitch Examd, an online exam proctoring solution.

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Roundtable Recap: October 1 – Validate the Business Case Before Writing Code

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Semyon Dukach, Managing Partner at One Way Ventures, an immigrant founder focused VC fund.

Oyaa

As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Sangeetha Iyer from Franklin Park, New Jersey, pitching Oyaa, a household organizing solution marketplace.

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Roundtable Recap: September 24 – Dynamic Startup Discussions

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Roman Kikta, Managing Partner and Founder, Mobility Ventures. Roman discussed his firm’s investment thesis.

MysteryMonks

As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Aditya Vikram from New Delhi, India, pitching MysteryMonks, a video production service that has nuances of a marketplace, but is a managed service.

Online CheckWriter

Next up, Sabeer Nelli from Tyler, Texas, pitched Online CheckWriter, a competitor to Bill.com that is projecting $5M in ARR for 2020, and expects $15-20M in 2021.

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later from Houston: Onit CEO Eric Elfman (Part 1)

Eric has built two sizable companies in legal tech from Houston. Great journey!

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?

Roundtable Recap: September 17 – Around the World with Startups in Ninety Minutes

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Robert Weber, Managing Partner at Great North Labs located in Minneapolis.

Medifees

As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Hugo Gallegos from Portland, Oregon, pitching Medifees, a solution for assessing medical expenses.

Halalworkchop

Next up, Muyideen Ayinla from Nigeria pitched Halalworkchop, a digital services company catering to small businesses.

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Roundtable Recap: September 10 – 500th 1Mby1M Roundtable, A Celebration of Normalcy

This week, 1Mby1M celebrated the 500^th mentoring roundtable.

As the pandemic rages through the world, wild fires devastate the American West, normalcy has never been valued more.

Through it all, we have met week after week since 2008 to mentor entrepreneurs around the world.

PiParadox

First up, we had Srijit Mondal, from Kolkata, India, pitching PiParadox, an online training venture for data science, math and statistics. The project is already in revenue.

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