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 Sateesh Andra of Endiya Partners (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 Sateesh Andra was recorded in April 2019.

Endiya Partners’ founding team – Managing Director Sateesh Andra, Managing Director Dr. Ramesh Byrapaneni, Director Abhishek Srivastava – talk about their Seed and Pre-Series A VC fund focused on India.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by each of you taking turns to introduce yourselves, your background, and how you see the India venture opportunity. Let’s start with you Sateesh.

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445th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Deepen Parikh, Courtside Ventures

Deepen Parikh is Partner at Courtside Ventures, a firm focused on investing in sports related ventures. He provides a fascinating window into a little discussed sector.

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444th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Hernan Fernandez, Angel Ventures Mexico

Hernan Fernandez is Managing Partner at Angel Ventures Mexico, a firm that invests in Mexico, Chile, Peru and Colombia. This is an excellent discussion on trends in Latin America.

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443rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Eghosa Omoigui, EchoVC Partners

Eghosa Omoigui is Managing Partner at EchoVC Partners, a firm focused on the African market. This is a fascinating discussion about African startups and venture capital.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bill Bice of Verge Fund (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 Bill Bice was recorded in April 2019.

Bill Bice, Partner at Verge Fund, discusses New Mexico’s startup ecosystem and his fund’s activities in that region.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by getting acquainted and also introducing you to our audience. Let’s learn about Verge Fund. Tell us about yourself. What is your investment thesis? What are the preferences? How big is the fund?

445th Roundtable Recording on May 23, 2019: With Deepen Parikh, Courtside Ventures

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Roundtable Recap: May 23 – Spotlight on Sports Tech

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest, Deepen Parikh, Partner at Courtside Ventures, a firm focused on investing in sports related ventures. Fascinating window in a little discussed sector.

Cloudely

At the top of the program, we had Suren Reddy from San Jose, CA, pitch Cloudely, a quote to cash SaaS integration provider with a large number of services clients that is making a push to bootstrap products.

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441st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Jose Deustua, UTEC Ventures

Jose Deustua, Managing Director at UTEC Ventures, talks about Peru’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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444th Roundtable Recording On May 16, 2016: With Hernan Fernandez, Angel Ventures Mexico

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Hemant Mohapatra of Lightspeed 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 Hemant Mohapatra was recorded in March 2019.

Hemant Mohapatra, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, India, talks about some of the large, open opportunities in the Indian market that are of interest to him.

Sramana Mitra: Today we’re going to start with a conversation with Hemant Mohapatra who’s partner at Lightspeed Ventures India. Let’s start by introducing our audience to the activities of Lightspeed India – the positioning and a bit of your background.

Roundtable Recap: May 16 – Spotlight on Mexico

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest, Hernan Fernandez, Managing Partner at Angel Ventures Mexico. The firm invests in Mexico, Chile, Peru and Colombia. Excellent discussion on Latin America trends.

Lightwing

As for the entrepreneur pitches, from Bangalore, India, we had Ravitej Yadalam pitch Lightwing, a cloud monitoring and optimization solution for SMEs.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sumant Mandal of March Capital Partners (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 Sumant Mandal was recorded in March 2019.

Sumant Mandal is Managing Director at March Capital Partners, a firm that invests largely in enterprise-facing businesses with deep technical differentiation. The conversation includes excellent insights into the changing dynamics of the networking space and how companies like Cisco and Juniper are managing their existential threats.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as March Capital and your other early stage investment activities.

443rd Roundtable Recording on May 9, 2019: With Eghosa Omoigui, EchoVC Partners

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shalini Prakash of 500 Startups India (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 Shalini Prakash was recorded in March 2019.

Shalini Prakash, Venture Partner at 500 Startups India, talks about the opportunities in the Indian market.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by giving our audience a bit of an orientation of what’s happening at 500 Startups India. How are you positioning the activities of the organization?

Roundtable Recap: May 9 – Spotlight on African Startups and Venture Capital

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest, Eghosa Omoigui, Managing Partner at EchoVC Partners, a firm focused on the African market. It was a fascinating discussion.

The Westland Concept

As for the entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Rui Jorge Romao from Coto, Portugal, pitch The Westland Concept. Rui wants to build a sustainable clothing brand.

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