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303rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ho Nam, Altos Ventures

Posted on Friday, Apr 21st 2017

Ho Nam, Managing Director at Altos Ventures, makes a clear distinction between capital efficient company building and the “grow at costs in all sorts of unsustainable ways” philosophy. These are two distinctly different ways of building businesses.

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305th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Stewart Alsop, Alsop Louie Venture

Posted on Friday, Apr 21st 2017

Stewart Alsop, Partner at Alsop Louie Partners, has been a VC for 20 years, and before that, a journalist for another 20 years in the technology industry. This conversation is wide-ranging, spanning autonomous vehicles, unreasonable entrepreneurs, etc.

319th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Rehan Yar Khan, Orios Venture Partners

Posted on Friday, Apr 21st 2017

Rehan Yar Khan is General Partner at Orios Venture Partners, and an early investor in the Indian startup scene. Rehan’s core focus is on the Indian consumer opportunity, and that is what we focus on in this discussion.

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330th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Hernan Kazah, Kaszek Ventures

Posted on Friday, Apr 21st 2017

Hernan Kazah is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Kaszek Ventures, one of the earliest VC firms to start investing in the Latin American market. Hernan is a Co-founder of MercadoLibre, Latin America’s ecommerce leader. This discussion features a comprehensive overview of the trends in the Latin American startup scene.

299th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Heidi Roizen, DFJ

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 18th 2017

Heidi Roizen, Operating Partner at DFJ, discusses her important article, “How to Build a Unicorn From Scratch – and Walk Away with Nothing,” and imparts crucial lessons to entrepreneurs on how to look at terms in a venture financing situation.

237th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Eric Benhamou, Benhamou Global Ventures

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 18th 2017

Eric Benhamou, Managing Partner of Benhamou Global Ventures, was the CEO of 3Com, a pioneer in the networking space, and the key competitor to Cisco. He also ran Palm, the first Smartphone maker, that 3Com acquired, then spun out and took public. He provides an insightful window into the opportunities in the enterprise cloud infrastructure space, and in Cyber Security, and also explains why he is not necessarily looking for Unicorn companies to invest in. This, I might point out, is a highly unusual perspective in today’s VC universe, so you may want to pay attention to his analysis of the market.

232nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Brian Jacobs, Emergence Capital

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 18th 2017

Brian Jacobs is General Partner, Emergence Capital, SaaS / Cloud domain experts boasting a fabulous portfolio, including solid exits like SuccessFactors, Yammer, and Veeva. He discusses his views on where cloud opportunities are likely to be at this point. While we’re in a mature market, he is still bullish on innovation.

287th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 11th 2017

Ashmeet Sidana, Founder of Engineering Capital, a seed-stage venture fund focusing on infrastructure technology, had a lot of insights to offer, and delivered one particular piece of wisdom that is close to my heart. He says, funding is like candy. Don’t eat too much candy. Whole wheat bread and proteins are customers and revenues. That’s what you should focus on. Brilliant analogy, don’t you think?