Non-Technical Founder Building a Tech Startup to over $10m: David Moricca, CEO of Socialive (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What were you trying to build in the first iteraton? David Moricca: The original vision was an online music creation platform targeting young people. It’s called Breakout Band. We created one of the first music creation platforms. It had a beatmaker where you can create your own beats. You can add your own

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Non-Technical Founder Building a Tech Startup to over $10M: David Moricca, CEO of Socialive (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You have a political science and law background. Then you went to McKinsey to do some consulting work. This brings us to 2006 now? David Moricca: 2005. Sramana Mitra: What happens then? David Moricca: I was itching to move from consulting into more of an operational role. Because of my previous background and

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Non-Technical Founder Building a Tech Startup to over $10M: David Moricca, CEO of Socialive (Part 1)

We very often get questions on whether non-technical founders can build tech companies. David’s story is a really interesting one that touches many aspects of the 1Mby1M methodology. Sramana Mitra: Let’s begin at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

477th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Elly Truesdell, Almanac Insights

Elly Truesdell is Partner at Almanac Insights, a fund focused on food related investments. We have a fascinating conversation.

466th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Arijit Sengupta, Aible

Arijit Sengupta is Founder and CEO at Aible. Previously, Arijit founded another AI startup, BeyondCore, which was acquired by Salesforce.com. This is an excellent discussion, and I urge you to check it out.

460th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Guillermo Gaspart, ByHours.com

Guillermo Gaspart, Founder and CEO of ByHours.com in Barcelona, shares his wonderful journey of building a unique online travel company. We had an interesting discussion on the issue of how much funding is too much.

458th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Alok Nandan, Emergent Ventures

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

452nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Sean Dawes, Modded Euros

Sean Dawes, Co-founder at Modded Euros, discusses the state of the union in niche e-commerce startups in the shadow of Amazon’s dominance.