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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 Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: There were a few things you said I want to highlight for our audience. They’re very much in tune with the philosophy that we practice in our program, which is Bootstrap first, and then raise capital. Without capital, MuleSoft validated and they got an immense amount of traction. That definitely is something that
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: You talked about MuleSoft. Let’s take a couple of your companies and drill down and understand your thinking behind why you invested in those opportunities. Obviously today, these are big successes. When you invested, that was not so clear. You must have made a certain analysis of those businesses. What was that thought
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad (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 Ann Winblad, Winblad was recorded in December 2014. Ann Winblad, Co-founder of Hummer Winblad, is one of the most successful women VCs in our industry, and as I mentioned in my introduction, I
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Asheem Chandna of Greylock 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 Asheem Chandna, Greylock Ventures was recorded in September 2016. Asheem Chandna, General Partner at Greylock Ventures, talks on the topic of funding fat startups, something Asheem has done routinely, one of the very few
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Cindy Padnos of Illuminate Ventures (Part 4)
Cindy Padnos: We structure our seed investment with, at most, three other co-investors, but typically have one co-investor. We think it’s really important to be investing with like-minded investors. It’s also a bit dangerous to have a very large fund writing a small check into your seed round. It’s a significant signaling risk if that fund
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Cem Sertoglu of Earlybird Venture 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 Cem Sertoglu, Earlybird Venture Capital was recorded in October 2017. Cem Sertoglu is Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital, based in Turkey. Cem brings the spotlight on Turkey and the Eastern and Central European startup
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Cindy Padnos of Illuminate 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 Cindy Padnos, Illuminate Ventures was recorded in September 2017. Cindy Padnos, Founder and Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures, discusses a topic that we’ve been highlighting recently: the need for multiple seed rounds as a
