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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nitin Pachisia of Unshackled Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Talk about your portfolio. What have you invested in? What’s interesting? Take a few highlights of your portfolio and walk us through what they are, why you’ve invested in them, and what is the thought process. Nitin Pachisia: We’ve made 18 investments in two and a half years, which is reflective of our
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nitin Pachisia of Unshackled 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 Nitin Pachisia was recorded in October 2017. Nitin Pachisia, Founding Partner at Unshackled Ventures, discusses pre-seed and seed investing. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Unshackled Ventures. What is the focus of the firm? How
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jason Stoffer of Maveron (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What is your investment thesis around online education right now? Jason Stoffer: I don’t really do education either online or offline. The biggest area of opportunity in education is post-college. What you see is an environment where when I graduated college in 1999, it was very easy to get a job. You had
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jason Stoffer of Maveron (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s switch topics a little bit to look at some other categories that you tend to invest in. You like to invest in education it seems – online education. I saw that you’ve invested in Course Hero. We’ve done a big story on Andrew. I love what Course Hero is doing. Huge numbers
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jason Stoffer of Maveron (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: My observation is the venture capital industry needs to really get a lot more savvy and sophisticated about the discipline of merchandising if it really wants to play in this B2C brand world. Especially in domains like fashion and design it’s all about merchandising and curation. Jason Stoffer: Look at Mickey Drexler. It’s
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jason Stoffer of Maveron (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 Jason Stoffer was recorded in September 2014. Jason Stoffer, General Partner at Maveron – a consumer-only venture capital firm that has had a successful track record of investing in e-commerce ventures ranging from eBay,
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Oded Hermoni of Rhodium Venture Partners (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: We are in 2017. Lots of stuff have already been built. Nowadays, there aren’t so many wide open opportunities for doing fundamental things the way Salesforce or Facebook did it. The incumbents are incredibly powerful. They have monopolistic power. We have a lot of capital in the system right now. If you’re managing
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With John Dougery of Inventus Capital (Part 5)
John Dougery: I think that the point about SaaS is all about market size, but we have a different view. We have been doing SaaS companies since we started 10 years ago out of India. We’ve always had a thesis that business software companies are going to be very interesting product opportunities. That came out
