The Accelerator Conundrum: Navigating Your Path to Startup Success

Alright, let’s cut through the noise and get to the brutal truth of the startup accelerator world. Many entrepreneurs, starry-eyed and naive, leap headfirst into 3-month accelerator programs without truly understanding the long-term implications. It’s time for an incisive commentary, a necessary dissection.

1Mby1M Udemy Courses with Sramana Mitra: Financing

Raising money to build a startup is a huge challenge. To be able to raise any money at all, you must first understand how investors think. We have developed the following courses catering to entrepreneurs in different stages of their entrepreneurial journey.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Francisco Jardim of SP Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Francisco Jardim was recorded in November 2019.

Francisco Jardim is Founding Partner at SP Ventures, a Brazilian firm focused on AgTech in Latin America. We learned a lot about what’s happening in the sector and the region.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Karthee Madasamy of Mobile Foundation Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Karthee Madasamy was recorded in December 2019.

Karthee Madasamy is Founder and Managing Partner at Mobile Foundation Ventures. He discusses issues related to startups selling deep tech to enterprises.

468th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Karthee Madasamy, Mobile Foundation Ventures

Karthee Madasamy is Founder and Managing Partner at Mobile Foundation Ventures. He discusses issues related to startups selling deeptech to enterprises.

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468th Roundtable Recording on December 19, 2019: With Karthee Madasamy, Mobile Foundation Ventures

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Roundtable Recap: December 19 – Wisdom for Startups Selling Deeptech to Enterprises

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Karthee Madasamy, Founder and Managing Partner at Mobile Foundation Ventures. Karthee and I discussed issues related to startups selling deeptech to enterprises.

Find Me Parking

As for pitches, first up today was Prashant Patil from Pune, India, pitching a concept-stage app for real time parking availability.

Cyber2bee Technologies

Next, Prem Kumar from Tamil Nadu, India, pitched Cyber2bee Technologies, an attempt to go against players like BigBasket in e-commerce.

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467th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Nexus Venture Partners

Jishnu Bhattacharjee is Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners, a fundamentals – focused firm that aligns with the 1Mby1M philosophy. Jishnu takes us through several examples of how the firm is thinking about investing in startups. Excellent conversation.

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464th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Francisco Jardim, SP Ventures

Francisco Jardim is Founding Partner at SP Ventures, a Brazilian firm focused on AgTech in Latin America. We learned a lot about what’s happening in the sector and the region.

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463rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Anand Rajaraman, rocketship.vc

Anand Rajaraman, Founding Partner at rocketship.vc, was an early investor in Facebook. Among other things, we discuss how the quality of startups from India has been improving.

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467th Roundtable Recording on November 27, 2019: With Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Nexus Venture Partners

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Roundtable Recap: November 27 – Fundamentals-Focused Venture Capital

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners. Nexus is a fundamentals focused firm that aligns with the 1Mby1M philosophy. Jishnu took us through several examples of how the firm is thinking about investing in startups. Excellent conversation.

Boozimba

Up first, we had Shubhojyoti Ganguly from Bangalore, India, pitch Boozimba. It is a robotics product catering to bars for mixing cocktails. Very interesting.

Bring It!

From Lyndhurst, Australia, Nushan Anguru pitched Bring It! A services for local small businesses like butchers to offer their products and services online. Bring It! Would also take care of the delivery.

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464th Roundtable Recording on November 7, 2019: With Francisco Jardim, SP Ventures

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Roundtable Recap: November 7 – An Excellent Discussion on AgTech Startups in Latin America

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Francisco Jardim, Founding Partner, SP Ventures, a Brazilian firm focused on AgTech in Latin America. We learnt a lot about what’s happening in the sector and the region.

Logicus eMobility

As for entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Saurabh Acharya from Bangalore, India, pitch Logicus eMobility, an electric bike leasing solution.

AutomizeApps

Next, Sayander Paul from Kolkata, India pitched AutomizeApps, an analytics solution for mid-sized e-commerce companies.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alok Nandan of Emergent Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Alok Nandan was recorded in September 2019.

Alok Nandan, General Partner at Emergent Ventures (USA), discusses explainable AI in the context of his fund’s investment focus.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rodrigo Baer of Redpoint Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Rodrigo Baer was recorded in September 2019.

Rodrigo Baer, Partner at Redpoint Ventures, Brazil, provides a very interesting overview of his firm and what’s happening in the Brazilian ecosystem.

463rd Roundtable Recording on October 31, 2019: With Anand Rajaraman, rocketship.vc

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