Catching Up On Readings: Retail Tech 100

This report from CB Insights ranks the 100 most promising B2B retail tech companies in the world that have together raised $14.8 billion in funding. It also provides insights into the leading categories and trends in the industry. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Martin Neale, CEO of ICS (Part 4)

Martin Neale: From our perspective, we understand that the Microsoft sellers provide a specialized service. They typically will be happy to talk to you if you have gone through some of the activities required. You are a Microsoft partner. You have signed up through their co-selling program. If you do those things and your proposition aligns, then that is the time where regular communications happen.

Sramana Mitra: The kind of price point you’re talking about, that’s not necessarily very large deals. But you’re saying that the direct sales force still works with that kind of deal size. 

October 28 – 551st 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 551st FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 28, 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. 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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Roundtable Recap: October 21 – Startup from Tyler, Texas

During this week’s roundtable, I coached a startup from Tyler, Texas called Zil Money. Very interesting company, and now a part of the 1Mby1M Premium program.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Steven Mitzenmacher, Rackspace Technology (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What range would you put on your first two categories?

Steven Mitzenmacher: It’s so subjective. I used to live at a time when an enterprise software company could expect a 2.5 to 3 times revenue to be an appropriate multiple. Then you get into the SaaS world where it’s 30 to infinity times. Similarly, now being in the world of professional services, you used to live in a world where 1 to 1.5 times was appropriate. Now you see sexy cloud consultancy companies selling for 4 to 6 times revenue.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Martin Neale, CEO of ICS (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The text-to-voice technology is from Nuance?

Martin Neale: It’s not. It might be from Nuance at some point, but Microsoft is already doing their own telephony integration. We use another vendor’s technology for the telephony piece.

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about the healthcare public service case studies. What kinds of applications and use cases are you using these chatbots around?

4 Udemy Courses on How To Build a Unicorn Startup

Unicorn is a startup with an estimated valuation of over $1 billion. More than 1000 unicorns exist today.

Snowflake, Atlassian, ServiceNow are examples of startup unicorns. They’re massive, multi-billion dollar publicly traded companies now. Yet, they all started as an idea, took one step after another, grew in size, and so on.

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Today’s 550th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 21, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!