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- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anand Daniel of Accel Partners (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s flip to the consumer side where the mobile penetration has been tremendous. Everybody believes that India is going the the next big e-commerce market. Even Amazon believes that. It has been a slower adoption. There is friction around buying online. People do cash on delivery. They don’t like to pay by credit
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Aniruddha Malpani of Malpani Ventures (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How do you parse the unicorn mania that’s going on in the industry now? If you do get a hot company that goes through multiple rounds of financing, you could get buried under later-stage liquidation preferences. How do you protect yourself and how do you think about this scenario? Aniruddha Malpani: We’ve not
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anand Daniel of Accel Partners (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down into some of these trends areas. Since you started talking about Freshdesk, we know that case study very well. Freshdesk is cloud-based customer support for small businesses. If you look at that style of company out of India, what are some of the companies in your portfolio that have achieved
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Aniruddha Malpani of Malpani Ventures (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What trends are you seeing in the entrepreneurs who are coming to you for funding? What kinds of entrepreneurs are coming? What resonates with you? Aniruddha Malpani: As I said, the social impact piece resonates with me because I actually think these companies will be far more profitable, partly because of the financial
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anand Daniel of Accel Partners (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Anand Daniel of Accel Partners was recorded in May 2016. Anand Daniel, Partner with Accel Partners, discusses Accel India’s
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Aniruddha Malpani of Malpani Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: To net it out, you are agnostic to B2B or B2C. You are really interested in learning about something new. That’s your primary motivator. Aniruddha Malpani: I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I’m good at what I do. This is what I call the T-shaped model of living a life. I have
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Aniruddha Malpani of Malpani 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 Aniruddha Malpani of Malpani Ventures was recorded in September 2017. Aniruddha Malpani, Director and Founder of Malpani Ventures, is an active angel investor in the Indian circuit. He discusses what he looks for in
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I’m glad you segued us in here. I’m a little bit uncomfortable with the level of sensationalization that goes on on this issue. The issue is a lot more complex and somewhat scientific than it’s made out to be. The truth is the venture-funded businesses tend to be technology-heavy businesses. There is a
