1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Suman Talukdar, Founder and Managing Partner at AiSprouts.VC (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You have a relatively small fund at the moment. What are your thoughts about chasing unicorns versus chasing the 2x to 5x companies? Suman Talukdar: I’m relatively new on the investing side, but I have had experience working with venture-backed companies. All the work and effort pays off when things work. When they

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Suman Talukdar, Founder and Managing Partner at AiSprouts.VC (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s dig down to AI and your thesis around AI a little bit. We do a series called Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence. It’s a popular series. We have been doing it for a long time. We bring entrepreneurs as well as people in large companies to talk about what they are doing

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Suman Talukdar, Founder and Managing Partner at AiSprouts.VC (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I love this kind of multicultural perspective. As you know, we are a global accelerator, so we work with entrepreneurs all around the world. When you started talking about AiSprouts, you said that you wanted some product validation. Talk to us about what you mean by that. In that context, you also said

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Achler of MATH Venture Partners 2021 (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 Mark Achler of MATH Venture Partners was recorded in January 2021. Mark Achler, MATH Venture Partners, focuses on B2B selling as a key factor in startup success.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Suman Talukdar, Founder and Managing Partner at AiSprouts.VC (Part 1)

Suman Talukdar is Founder and Managing Partner at AiSprouts.VC.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Venktesh Shukla, General Partner at Monta Vista Capital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: If you were to look back on the 30 companies that you invested in, which ones are concept-stage ventures that you have invested in without anything already built? Venktesh Shukla: Practically every one of them.  Sramana Mitra: Very interesting. That’s actually unique. I’m going to give you some feedback on what’s happening in

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Venktesh Shukla, General Partner at Monta Vista Capital (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Venktesh Shukla is General Partner at Monta Vista Capital. I have known Venk for more than 20 years, and we discussed both industry trends and his fund strategy.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Fabrice Grinda, Founding Partner at FJ Labs (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Fabrice Grinda, Founding Partner at FJ Labs, discusses his firm’s investment thesis around marketplaces. Sramana Mitra: We are going to start today’s session with a conversation with Fabrice Grinda, the founder partner at FJ Labs. Let’s get you acquainted with our audience. Tell us a bit

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