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.

Roundtable Recap: November 2 – People or Market: Which Takes Priority for an Investor?

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Jon Staenberg, Managing Partner at Staenberg Venture Partners, and a Seed Investor in over 300 ventures over the last 30 years. Jon drew from his long background and discussed some of what interests him to invest in a startup. He also reflected on the question People or Market: Which takes priority?

SmartServ
First, Arnav Anand from San Franciso and Pune, India, pitched SmartServ, a mobile SaaS app for managing field technical services SMBs. The company is at about a $180k revenue run rate. Nice execution so far.

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Featured Videos

What Are Indian VCs Looking For With Sandeep Singhal

We’re doing a deep dive into the current seed investment eco-system and talking to our investor friends about what they’re looking for.

Here, you can hear the perspective of Sandeep Singhal of Nexus Venture Partners on Indian Startups:

Come talk to me to brainstorm, strategize, weigh your funding options.

8 Investors Discuss Trends in Seed Investing in Podcasts

Entrepreneurs in the early stages of building startups need to be aware of the myriad stages of seed funding that have emerged. By the time you’ve gone through three to five rounds of seed funding, you have spent huge amounts of time and energy (and possibly, equity). To bring yourself up to speed on the developing trends in seed funding, please listen to the following 30-minute podcast interviews with a varied group of seed investors, Angels and VCs.

Don Hutchison, Independent Investor – Don is one of the most experienced and long term Angel Investors in Silicon Valley. We discuss the trends of the industry and ways to mitigate the Series A gap that is a serious issue right now.

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372nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Mark Achler, MATH Venture Partners

Mark Achler, Managing Director, MATH Venture Partners, discusses their investment strategy and the industry trends.

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289th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Yanev Suissa, SineWave Ventures

Yanev Suissa is General Partner at SineWave Ventures out of Washington DC and Silicon Valley. The firm invests alongside some major firms like Andreessen Horowitz and NEA. Yanev talks about how they invest, and also the trends he sees.

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293rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Nathan Lustig, Magma Partners

Nathan Lustig, Managing Partner of Magma Partners, a Latin-America-focused fund. He talks about their strategy, as well as the dynamics of the LatAm market.

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294th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Nitin Pachisia, Unshackled Ventures

Nitin Pachisia, Founding Partner at Unshackled Ventures, discusses pre-seed and seed investing.

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What Are Indian Seed Investors Looking For With Padmaja Ruparel

We’re doing a deep dive into the current seed investment eco-system and talking to our investor friends about what they’re looking for.

Here, you can hear the perspective of Padmaja Ruparel of Indian Angel Network on Indian Startups:

Come talk to me to brainstorm, strategize, weigh your funding options.

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372nd Roundtable Recording On October 19, 2017: With Mark Achler, MATH Venture Partners

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

324th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Todd Belfer, Canal Partners

Todd Belfer, Managing Partner of Canal Partners, talks about financing early-stage niche B-to-B SaaS opportunities.

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304th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Don Hutchison, Independent Investor

Don Hutchison is one of the most experienced and long term Angel investors in Silicon Valley. We discuss the trends of the industry and ways to mitigate the Series A gap that is a serious issue right now.

If you are enjoying our 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast, please publish a Review on iTunes, click Apple Podcasts below, thank you!

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301st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Julien Nguyen, IT Farm

Julien Nguyen is General Partner at IT Farm, a seed-stage fund focused on Digital Health. We explore trends in the industry, as well as what IT Farm’s sixth fund likes to invest in.

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Roundtable Recap: October 19 – What Investors are Looking for with Mark Achler, MATH Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Mark Achler, Managing Director, MATH Venture Partners, to discuss their investment strategy and the industry trends.

GoGo Places
First, Epi Ludvik Nekaj from Singapore and Berlin, pitched GoGo Places, an AirBnB like service catering to digital nomads who want longer term rentals. Very nice presentation and a good value proposition given the trends in that segment.

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What Are Seed Investors Looking For With Swati Chaturvedi

We’re doing a deep dive into the current seed investment eco-system and talking to our investor friends about what they’re looking for.

Here, you can hear the perspective of Swati Chaturvedi of Propel(x), a B-to-B angel network:

Come talk to me to brainstorm, strategize, weigh your funding options.

371st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Sunil Bhargava, Tandem Capital

Sunil Bhargava, Founder and Managing Partner, Tandem Capital, helped us explore the difference of post-seed versus pre-Series A financing.

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