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234th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With NASSCOM’s Ravi Gururaj and iSPIRT’s Sharad Sharma

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 20th 2017

Ravi Gururaj, Chair of NASSCOM’s product council, and Sharad Sharma, Founder of iSPRIT, each with enormous contributions towards the growth of the Indian software product eco-system, weigh in with their thoughts on the various aspects of the market.

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365th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Venktesh Shukla, TiE Angels

Posted on Thursday, Sep 14th 2017

Venktesh Shukla, founder of TiE Angels and General Partner Monta Vista Capital, discusses some shifts happening in the world of seed investing.

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364th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Greg Besner, CultureIQ

Posted on Thursday, Sep 14th 2017

Greg Besner, Founder and CEO at CultureIQ, is a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor. We discuss both his journey as an entrepreneur, lessons thereof, as well as his methodology and philosophy of angel investing.

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363rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Swati Chaturvedi, Propel(x)

Posted on Thursday, Sep 14th 2017

Swati Chaturvedi is Co-founder and CEO at Propel(x), an online platform where entrepreneurs are connected to angels. Swati and I discussed some of the key trends of the seed financing eco-system as viewed from Propel(x).

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281st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Paulo Rosado, OutSystems

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 13th 2017

Paulo Rosado is CEO of OutSystems, one of the very few enterprise software companies out of Europe, and they have succeeded in building a substantial global business.

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275th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Art Papas, Bullhorn

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 13th 2017

Art Papas, CEO and Co-founder at Bullhorn, discusses how he pivoted a venture-funded startup, bootstrapped it to product-market fit and momentum, raised venture capital again to take out his original investors, and is now getting ready to go public. He also reiterated his more fundamentals-focused philosophy, emphasizing the need to attain product-market fit before raising funding.

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274th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Tim Hentschel, HotelPlanner and Meetings.com

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 13th 2017

Tim Hentschel, CEO at HotelPlanner and Meetings.com, has bootstrapped his company to $25M in revenue, growing 20% y-o-y organically. He emphasizes our mantra of entrepreneurship = customers + revenues + profits, financing, exit, valuation all being optional. Of course, today’s atmosphere is so frothy that such fundamental-oriented thinking has few takers.

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272nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Tom Foremski, SiliconValleyWatcher.com

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 13th 2017

Tom Foremski, Publisher of SiliconValleyWatcher.com, discusses the future of journalism and provides his views on a new business opportunity that he foresees: Media-as-a-Service (MaaS).

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267th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Anant Agarwal, edX

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 13th 2017

Anant Agarwal is CEO of edX and my former professor at MIT. We have a wide ranging and comprehensive discussion on the future of higher education, complete with startup ideas and analysis of entrepreneurial ventures within education. Definitely worth a look, if the subject interests you.

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291st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Caleb Sima, Security Expert

Posted on Thursday, Sep 7th 2017

Caleb Sima, a world-class security expert and serial entrepreneur, was working on his security startup, BlueBox Security (acquired by Lookout in 2016), at the time of this discussion. If security is your interest, this is a great session to listen to.

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313th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Henry Schuck, DiscoverOrg

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 6th 2017

Henry Schuck, Co-founder and CEO of DiscoverOrg, is a first-time entrepreneur who has bootstrapped his company to $25 million ARR, and then raised private equity financing from TA Associates. Henry sees a clear path to $100 million. Very inspiring story!

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311th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Sinclair Schuller, Apprenda

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 6th 2017

Sinclair Schuller, CEO and Co-Founder of Apprenda, built this enterprise software company with $55 million in financing from Upstate New York. He has raised funding from Silicon Valley, but without moving here. Listen to what he has to say about moving to the Valley.

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310th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With T.M. Ravi, The Hive

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 6th 2017

T.M. Ravi is Managing Director and Co-founder of The Hive, a venture studio. The discussion touches upon a couple of key issues: the prevalent incubator/accelerator model of 3-month classes, we agreed, is bogus; and the Future of Work: Utopia or Dystopia?

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297th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Alexandre Wentzo, Casewise

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 6th 2017

Alexandre Wentzo, CEO of Casewise, an enterprise software company that started in London and has scaled in the US. The company is self-financed and did $24 Million in revenue last year. Our discussion focuses on some of the nuances of starting an enterprise software company in Europe and scaling it in the US.

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320th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Demitris Memos, MarineTraffic

Posted on Thursday, Aug 31st 2017

Demitris Memos is CEO of MarineTraffic, a $5M+ revenue startup from Greece. Much of Southern Europe, especially Greece, is in economic trouble, and there is an exodus of talent. It is great to see Demitris’ success story against that backdrop.

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