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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Milos Sochor of Y Soft Ventures (Part 2)
Milos Sochor: What I just said might sound pretty big, but it’s not. By US standards, it’s a small venture fund. We started the first one with only $4 million. We have invested in five companies. We are able to do more with less money in this part of the world because of very favorable
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ravi Mohan of Shasta Ventures (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: One of my observations is, if you’re doing a pure logistics play, it’s getting harder and harder even in niche e-commerce. Amazon is so comprehensive. The big categories are all taken. The way to differentiate is with new branded products. What you are layering on to that is the notion of repeat purchase
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Milos Sochor of Y Soft 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 Milos Sochor was recorded in September 2018. Milos Sochor is Managing Partner at Y Soft Ventures, a firm in the Czech Republic. Fascinating conversation about how a small region is gradually becoming
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ravi Mohan of Shasta Ventures (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Could you take us through a bit of the thinking for your portfolio strategy in B2C? Both trends that you’re seeing as well as where your bets are. Ravi Mohan: Every new communications platform yields huge new B2C companies. With the internet, you ended up with Facebook. Mobile hasn’t quite gotten there yet.
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ravi Mohan of Shasta Ventures (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: We focus a lot on that product-market fit process. Our guidance to our entrepreneurs most of the time is to figure out that product-market fit before going out to raise money. The vast majority of the market is in that mode right now. That’s just an aside. In B2B, do you have sweet
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ravi Mohan of Shasta Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Just to complete that configuration question, because of our activities being global, we see companies everywhere. We see companies all over the United States. We companies in Europe. Many of them have aspirations of coming to Silicon Valley and set up their go-to market operation. Maybe they do validation elsewhere, but they go
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ravi Mohan of Shasta 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 Ravi Mohan was recorded in June 2018. Ravi Mohan is Managing Director at Shasta Ventures, a firm that has invested in three SaaS Unicorns. Ravi discusses these investments: Apptio, Anaplan, and Zuora. Sramana Mitra:
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ankit Jain of Gradient Ventures (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: It’s fascinating, isn’t it? It’s a really exciting field. Are you chasing unicorns? Ankit Jain: Given that we’re investing $1 million to $10 million, we’re looking at a lot of companies that we hope will show their true market potential. We hope some of them get to that stage. We strongly believe many
