Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Bolt CEO Justin Grooms (Part 1)

Bolt is doing something unique in e-commerce personalization. Read on for more.

Sramana Mitra: All right, Justin, let’s start at the very beginning of your entrepreneurial journey. Where are you from? Where were you born? Raised? What kind of background?

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Catching Up On Readings: AI Energy Frenzy

This feature from Bloomberg explores how the AI frenzy is wreaking havoc on the power systems. In the US, data centers are projected to use 8% of total power by 2030, up from 3% in 2022. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. 

Bootstrap an AI Startup First, Raise Money Later: Sean Minter, Founder CEO of AmplifAI (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: So where are you now in terms of numbers? You don’t have to share anything that you don’t feel comfortable.

Sean Minter: We’re in the $10-$15 million ARR range today. Our goal is to get to the top end of that by the end of the year. We’ll continue to grow and do not need to raise any money. We’re fairly conservative with our cash, so we have plenty of money still available from our 2021 raise. We have lines of credit, so we’ll continue growing and we’ll see if we want to go raise money. We’ll do it based on what we think is a good time for us to go do it.

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1Mby1M Udemy Courses with Sramana Mitra: Artificial Intelligence

At 1Mby1M, one of the most popular courses these days is the Artificial Intelligence segment. These courses include case studies that involve discussions on opportunities and challenges in Generative AI domain.

Colors: Tranquility III

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Tranquility III

Tranquility III | Sramana Mitra, 2022 | Watercolor, Pastel, Ink | 8  x 8, On Paper

Colors: Tranquility II

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Tranquility II

Tranquility II | Sramana Mitra, 2022 | Watercolor, Pastel, Ink | 8  x 8, On Paper

Bootstrap an AI Startup First, Raise Money Later: Sean Minter, Founder CEO of AmplifAI (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about the next round of financing now. You went from $1 million to $4 million, and then you raised another $12 million round of financing, where were you expanding? Where were you investing at this point?

Roundtable Recap: June 20 – Spotlight on HealthTech with Julien Pham of Third Culture Capital

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Julien Pham, Founder GP at 3CC | Third Culture Capital. The firm focuses on HealthTech. Julien is a physician by training. Excellent discussion!

Hylo Apps

We also had Kosmas FN from Jakarta, Indonesia pitch Hylo Apps, a concept stage venture.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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