1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tim Guleri, Managing Director at Sierra Ventures 2021 (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I was thinking about some of the work that we are doing right now around PaaS which is also a distribution innovation. One of the reasons why Salesforce has been successful as it has been is because it managed to do SaaS products but they also did this PaaS strategy early on. They

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tim Guleri, Managing Director at Sierra Ventures 2021 (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do a few case studies. You have developed a very informed perspective on this. Walk us through a couple of examples of what they came to you with and what you saw. What was the business model or distribution model that made them successful? Tim Guleri: The easiest example to give you

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Laurel Touby, Managing Director at Supernode Ventures 2021 (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: One of the big successes of Latin America is Mercado Libre. They were my clients when I was consulting many years ago. I have known them for a long time. That company was a team from Stanford, so they knew how to raise venture capital. In the early stages, Mercado Libre was rather

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tim Guleri, Managing Director at Sierra Ventures 2021 (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Would you invest in concepts? Tim Guleri: Yes, we do and we have. The bar for the experience of the team in that particular pain point that they are going after is extremely high for those investment bets. You are betting on the future based on the experiences that they might have had,

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Laurel Touby, Managing Director at Supernode Ventures 2021 (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: When I look back to when I started in the technology industry, it was the mid-90’s which was the beginning of the internet. There was still stuff like dial-up internet. Today, a lot of founders have not experienced a non-internet life. These are young people who are digital natives and many of them

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tim Guleri, Managing Director at Sierra Ventures 2021 (Part 1)

Tim Guleri is Managing Director at Sierra Ventures. We have a terrific discussion on Business Model Innovation and Distribution Innovation that Tim believes trumps technology innovation. We go through some excellent examples. Do check it out! Sramana Mitra: Let’s welcome Tim Guleri from Sierra Ventures. I have known him for a very long time. I

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With John Frankel, Partner at ff Venture Capital 2021 (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What check sizes are you writing in the seed stage? John Frankel: Our check sizes are from $300,000 to $700,000 for 10% of the company.  Sramana Mitra: What are the secrets of your higher hit rate? What are some of the nuggets that you have learned? What are the best practices? 

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rajeev Madhavan, Founder and General Partner at Clear Ventures 2021 (Part 6)

Rajeev Madhavan: If you look at that space, Andy Bechtolsheim was a big investor. He would invest his money to help get rid of the issues that he sees in that space. That applies even today, except that now you have a lot of investors in Silicon Valley, so your ability to get that small

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