Roundtable Recap: January 3 – Excellent Global Entrepreneur Pitches To Kick Off The New Year

During this week’s roundtable, the first of 2019, we worked on three wonderful pitches, and had a productive discussion on each. All three entrepreneurs are serious, realistic, receptive, and thus, the discussions were meaningful and impactful.

Astreal
First up, we had Prateeksha Satyamoorthy from Bangalore, India, pitch Astreal, a virtual tradeshow platform that I suggested she repositions. Listen to the discussion to learn what a repositioning exercise looks like.

Vyllage
Then Laura Borland from Sunrise, Florida, pitched Vyllage, an app to create local receivers of packages that normally get left on porches, leading to theft. Excellent idea, great value proposition!

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Roundtable Recap: December 18 – Tough Love Leads to Rapid Progress

During this week’s roundtable, I gave some very tough feedback to the entrepreneurs, and to my great satisfaction, they took it and I think, it made a difference. “Bitter pill to swallow,” said Sameeran Amarnath, but he did swallow it.

Rian
First up, we had Anand Shiralkar from Pune, India, pitch Rian, a Computer Aided Translation tool.

Sudofire
Next, we had Anshul Arora from Gurugram, India, pitch Sudofire, a rapid website development tool that is being leveraged to run a Do It For Me (DIFM) web development agency. The tool enables Sudofire to develop websites in 20 minutes. We discussed customer acquisition and working capital strategies.

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Roundtable Recap: November 20 – Spotlight on Digital Health Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Sara Sutton, Founder and CEO at FlexJobs, who explained her platform and its ability to connect job seekers looking for flexible work schedules with employers. We explored how the 1Mby1M community could use some of this for scaling companies with virtual teams.

Mindpax.me
As for the pitches, first up, Tomas Kovark from Forchheim, Germany, pitched Mindpax.me, a digital health solution for monitoring mentally ill patients and apprehending panic attacks and other hospitalization cases with preemptive interceptions.

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Roundtable Recap: November 14 – From Texas to Sierra Leone via Colombia

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Krishna Srinivasan, Founding General Partner at LiveOak Venture Partners, a firm focused on investing in Texas. Great conversation!

AlphaMERS
Pitching first, Sekhar DC from Bangalore, India, pitched AlphaMERS, a bootstrapped innovation company that is already profitable.

Bancalimentos
Then, we had Johana Forero from Bogata, Colombia, pitching Bancalimentos, a social enterprise catering to rural consumers, buying their trash with points, and letting them redeem the points for products. The company is also already profitable.

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Roundtable Recap: November 8 – What is a Full Stack Founding Team?

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Nihal Mehta, Founding General Partner at ENIAC Ventures, who provided a great set of insights into his definition of a full stack founding team. Either a set of co-founders who cover all the requisite skill-sets, or a solo founder who is a full-stack person – both configurations can work. Listen to the discussion for more color on the topic.

World Xchange
Pitching first, Benjamin Cvetkovich from Loveland, Colorado, pitched World Xchange, a big idea for addressing a critical problem in information security.

Grollow
Then, we had Jeff Gentile from Greenville, South Carolina, pitch Grollow, another big idea on a next generation social network.

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Spotlight on Entrepreneurship in Florida

We have done several spotlight posts on entrepreneurship in different parts of the world: Colorado, Utah, Czech Republic.

Today, we will turn the spotlight on Florida.

As usual, we start with a Unicorn: Modernizing Medicine. It’s a wonderful company from serial entrepreneur Daniel Cane. The HealthcareIT company has raised over $350 million in funding, has over $100 million in revenue, and is a legitimate unicorn.

Read: Equity Financing from Customers: Modernizing Medicine CEO Daniel Cane, Boca Raton, Florida

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Roundtable Recap: November 1 – Deep Dive into Artificial Intelligence Investing

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Evangelos Simoudis, Founder and Managing Director at Synapse Partners, with whom, we did a deep dive into AI investing.

Viima
Pitching first, Jesse Nieminen from Espoo, Finland, pitched Viima, an innovation management platform for the mid market. The company is approaching a million in revenue.

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Roundtable Recap: October 25 – Europe and Africa Rising

During this week’s roundtable, we had three interesting pitches from three different parts of the world. I am particularly thrilled to see Europe and Africa becoming more active on the 1Mby1M platform. The US and India have always been a big presence.

Telexos
Pitching first, Erhard Frenholz from Weilheim, Germany, pitched Telexos, a liquid biopsy company. The segment seems to have received huge amounts of funding already. What does it take to score a Series A at this stage of the game?

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