Roundtable Recap: March 26 – It’s Therapeutic to Discuss Business in These Troubled Times

This morning, we had an excellent roundtable discussing businesses from around the world.

First, we had as our guest Shruti Gandhi, General Partner and Founding Engineer, Array Ventures, a fund focused on deep tech, enterprise-facing ventures.

Edfone

As for entrepreneur pitches, we started with Nishanth Singh from Troy, Michigan, pitching Edfone, an EdTech venture. We advised Nishanth to focus on B-to-B.

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Roundtable Recap: March 19 – Trends in Food Related Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Elly Truesdell, Partner at Almanac Insights, a fund focused on food related investments. Fascinating conversation!

MarketKoin

As for entrepreneur pitches, we started with Nikolaj Vestorp from Thisted, Denmark, pitching MarketKoin, a crypto exchange for Indonesia.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Roundtable Recap: March 12 – Biz Dev for Startups in the Age of Corona Virus

Corona Virus looms over everything we do right now. We had extensive discussion on the subject today. My primary strategy for all our entrepreneurs is that biz dev should go on. Do it online. Do it by phone. Do it through content marketing. Do it through Zoom or Webex. But don’t freeze. Your funnel needs to keep moving.

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Roundtable Recap: March 5 – Do Not Spray and Pray

During this week’s roundtable, we had an extensive discussion on Positioning.

Pebble Distributed Ledger Technology

Our entrepreneur pitch was by Deepansh Singe from Kerala, India. He pitched Pebble Distributed Ledger Technology.

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Roundtable Recap: February 27 – Three Reasonable Startups in Validation Mode

During this week’s roundtable, we had three pitches.

Amma’s Kitchen
First up, Kiran Vasudeva from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, pitched Amma’s
Kitchen, a training and subscription service for cooking Indian
vegetarian recipes for people interested in following a plant-based diet.

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Roundtable Recap: February 20 – Comparables are Key

As our guest this week, we had Ashish Jain, Partner at 3Lines Ventures. We discussed his firm’s investment hypothesis.

Everydae

As for our entrepreneur pitch, today we had Christine Outram pitching Everydae, an educational app venture. I suggested to Christine to investigate comparables for her venture. In 2020, with so much innovation already under way, competition and comparables are areas that investors cannot ignore.

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Roundtable Recap: February 13 – You Have 30 Seconds to Capture My Attention

As our guest this week, we had Deepak Jeevankumar, Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital. We discussed his fund’s focus and preferences.

PhonePass

As for entrepreneur pitches, first up we had Shantanu Bhattacharya from Canberra, Australia, pitch PhonePass, a two-factor authentication technology.

Liglo

Then we had Nickson Zachary from Nairobi, Kenya, pitch Liglo, a mobile personal finance management app.

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Roundtable Recap: February 6 – Validation Should Be Done with Potential Customers, NOT Advisors

We had two pitches today.

Etelier

First up, was Sean Dehan from Austin, Texas, pitching Etelier, a membership-based luxury product marketplace. We discussed how to introduce a membership model.

Applicature

Next, Ian Arden from Palo Alto, California, pitched Applicature, a marketplace for VCs to access LPs and startups to access VCs. I advised Ian to validate with prospects, not advisors.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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