Ben Narasin: You build your business up to $5 million in revenue. It seems like a healthy lifestyle business to me. If you have a 40% gross margin, that means $2 million is flowing to you. If you can keep your operational expenses low, that can be a great living. Later, there are people who
Sramana Mitra: The most important thing is that big market opportunity. Hypergrowth is not a natural state of business. If every entrepreneur thinks that we have to achieve hypergrowth, that is not viable. Most businesses don’t have the characteristics of being able to meet that hypergrowth criteria. Ben Narasin: Absolutely agree. Venture wasn’t built to
Sramana Mitra: What is your investment thesis? Tell me a bit more about what you like to invest in? What problems in the world do you have your eye on? What segment do you specifically like? Is e-commerce still an interest? Ben Narasin: I make a very proactive effort to meet every VC in the
Sramana Mitra: Today, the industry is segmented in to pre-seed, seed, post-seed, pre-Series A, early Series A. Where are you positioning yourself? Ben Narasin: I’m happy with anything before the Series A. My focus has always been finding entrepreneurs that I believe are venture-scalable and helping them raise their first venture round. I got over
Ben Narasin is Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital, a new Seed fund. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself a little bit to our audience – both your personal background and the genesis of Tenacity.
Ben Narasin is Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital, a new Seed fund.