Roundtable Recap: October 3 – Pricing Model Drives Scalability

During this week’s roundtable, we had three entrepreneurs pitch.

Gangabiz

Up first, we had Debopriyo Sanyal from Kolkata, India, pitch Gangabiz. Debopriyo needs to spend time on the basics of business building.

Cellfie.me

Next, Rob Wotring from Palo Alto, California, pitched Cellfie.me, a saliva testing for gut health business that looks quite interesting.

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Roundtable Recap: September 26 – A Discussion on Explainable AI

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Alok Nandan of Emergent Ventures. We had an interesting conversation about explainable AI in the context of his fund’s investment focus.

Wishbook

Also, Arvind Saraf from Surat, India, pitched Wishbook, a marketplace for the fashion vertical in India. The sector is largely unorganized with hundreds of thousands of retailers, wholesellers, distributors and little penetration of modern technology. Arvind has validated parts of his hypothesis and his business is already generating revenue.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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454th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ryan Chan, UpKeep Maintenance Management

Ryan Chan, CEO and Founder at UpKeep, bootstrapped with a paycheck and subsequently, went through Y Combinator, followed by raising $13 Million.

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Roundtable Recap: September 19 – Startups Spanning Brazil, Egypt, India and Silicon Valley

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Rodrigo Baer, Partner at Redpoint eventures, Brazil. Rodrigo provided a very interesting overview of his firm and what’s happening in the Brazilian eco-system.

ORBAI

Up first we had Brent Oster from Gilroy, California, pitching ORBAI, an AI startup.

Fikra Kids

Then, Mohammed Talaat from Cairo, Egypt, pitched Fikra Kids, an EdTech venture.

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Roundtable Recap: September 12 – Services Startups Offer Great Bootstrapping Platforms

During this week’s roundtable, we had a comprehensive discussion about a small services business that is already in revenue. Unlike many in the industry, I am a big fan of services businesses because they provide excellent bootstrapping capability. If you build a strong services business, you create for yourself options. You can use the services revenues and cashflow as a platform from which to build something more scalable with faster growth.

Seven Boats

Today, Debajyoti Banerjee from Kolkata, India, pitched Seven Boats, a digital marketing and training business that has customers, revenues, and profits. There are techniques that can be applied to this business to scale it faster, introduce productization principles, repeatability, etc. Very promising.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Roundtable Recap: September 5 – Spotlight on Kolkata Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had a very active Q&A session with entrepreneurs from around the world sharing their projects.

Vawsum.com

As for the pitches, we had Aditya Maheswari from Kolkata, India, pitch Vawsum.com, an Ed Tech company from India that has already achieved close to $500,000 in revenue run rate. The company shows excellent potential. You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here.

I was also recently in Kolkata and did an in-person roundtable that you can watch here:

Those pitching included:

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Roundtable Recap: August 29 – Startups Spanning Indonesia, Nigeria, Guatemala and a YCombinator Case Study

During this week’s roundtable, we had Ryan Chan, CEO and Founder at UpKeep Maintenance Management. Ryan has bootstrapped with a paycheck and subsequently, gone through YCombinator, followed by raising $13 Million. Great case study.

Travling
As for the pitches, up first we had Daniel Agung Pratana from Indonesia pitch Travling, a local travel app.

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Roundtable Recap: August 8 – An Innovative Take on VC Funding

During this week’s roundtable, we had Jonathan Nelson, CEO, Founder at Hackers/Founders, and Managing Director of Hack Fund V. Jonathan discussed an innovative take his fund is taking on VC funding.

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