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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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- 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 Sunil Bhargava of Tandem Capital (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: The numbers that you quoted like $1 million to $2 million investment in a $5 million round, from the universe that we operate in, people are not ready to raise a $5 million round before a Series A usually. That’s what I find a bit confusing in how you position yourself as a
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Mason of Aligned Partners (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: If you do that capital efficiently and exit into a large company with the channel that has all those different verticals that they can access, you could conceivably broaden that portfolio and the acquiring company then gets a lot of leverage out of that platform. Susan Mason: Indeed. What we’ve seen is that
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Padmaja Ruparel of Indian Angel Network (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 Padmaja Ruparel was recorded in December 2017. Padmaja Ruparel is Co-founder, Indian Angel Network (IAN), and Founding Partner, IAN Fund. She has been a key player in shaping India’s still somewhat nascent startup eco-system.
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sunil Bhargava of Tandem Capital (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: The question is more about trends. In the companies that you’ve seen, what are people working on that are interesting? Sunil Bhargava: It’s extremely broad. We have companies in the construction space. We have companies in the food space. We have companies in the transportation space. Now you hear a lot about Blockchain.
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Mason of Aligned Partners (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Very much in alignment with the philosophy we practice here is capital-efficient entrepreneurship. We encourage our entrepreneurs to bootstrap as much as possible and do things with not too much money such that you end up with not very much in wealth creation. You raise a lot of money and perhaps build to
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sunil Bhargava of Tandem Capital (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 Sunil Bhargava was recorded in October 2017. Sunil Bhargava, Founder and Managing Partner, Tandem Capital, helped us explore the difference of post-seed versus pre-Series A financing. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Tandem. What is
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Mason of Aligned Partners (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 Susan Mason was recorded in October 2015. Susan Mason, General Partner at Aligned Ventures, talks about the dysfunctions of the broader venture capital model, and what her firm is doing to address those. Excellent
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Stewart Alsop of Alsop Louie Partners (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: The point I’m going to make to your point is that I don’t think unreasonable entrepreneurs means stupid entrepreneurs. I think I’m a pretty unreasonable entrepreneur. What we are doing with One Million by One Million is a pretty unreasonable concept, but I’m not stupid. Stewart Alsop: I don’t know if you’ve heard
