1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Keith Bank, Founder CEO at KB Partners (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about some of the digital businesses in sports tech.  Keith Bank: One that I’m particularly proud of and where we’ve got a lot of activity right now is Phenix. This came to me in a very unusual way. My son was in the commercial real estate business. One day he said,

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Keith Bank, Founder CEO at KB Partners (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to get to talking about specific trends and specific companies in a moment. I just want to clarify one thing which is the stage issue. Give us a sense of what is your definition of seed. What do you like to see by way of validation before you’re willing to write

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Keith Bank, Founder CEO at KB Partners (Part 1)

Keith Bank is Founder CEO at KB Partners, a venture firm focused on sports technology.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Semyon Dukach, Managing Partner at One Way Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: If a team is strong, are you okay with investing before pre-product?  Semyon Dukach: It takes more than a strong team. In my view, the team for this company was clearly the best in the world. There was no way that a team with more money could be stronger than this one. It

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Semyon Dukach, Managing Partner at One Way Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How close is your activity portfolio within the MIT community?  Semyon Dukach: We have quite a bit of stuff around MIT. I’ve been physically in Boston ever since I went to MIT 30 years ago. We have a lot of stuff with Harvard and other universities as well. I think that is one

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Semyon Dukach, Managing Partner at One Way Ventures (Part 1)

Semyon Dukach is Managing Partner at One Way Ventures, a VC fund focused on immigrant founders. Sramana Mitra: We are going to have a conversation with Semyon Dukach, the Managing Partner at One Way Ventures. Let’s introduce our audience to yourself as well as to One Way Ventures. 

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Roman Kikta, Managing Partner at Mobility Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Solutions looking for problems are much harder to get through to scale. I think it’s much better to start by solving a problem and then working out how you are going to market first before building something. That is what we practice here at 1M1M – the need to understand what market you

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Roman Kikta, Managing Partner at Mobility Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: A lot of entrepreneurs look for product-market fit. We also want investor-entrepreneur fit. It needs to happen for a deal to happen. The reason that I’m asking you all these questions about stage, geography, and styles of companies is that they are relevant to getting an investor-entrepreneur fit. There is also this unfair

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