Roundtable Recap: February 14 – GMV and Revenue Need Clear Distinction in Marketplaces

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Daniel Cohen, General Partner, Viola Ventures, who discussed the Israeli startup market and his firm’s focus within that segment.

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As for entrepreneur pitches, 1Mby1M Premium member Mithun Kadur from Monroe, NJ, pitched Sagisu, a logistics and transportation marketplace company focused on Indian enterprises. Sagisu is already in revenue and is moving along very nicely. I am very bullish on the company.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Venktesh Shukla of TiE Angels (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You can play this with a very specific domain focus with a specific set of corporate around you. In some cases, these corporates are investing in these little micro-funds that play this game. It is a little side of the industry that is developing. There are these little niches which are not venture-scale niches. They’re not going to be venture-fundable. You can only play these if you work with little bits of seed money and then, pretty much, go straight to acquisition and not go out to raise a venture round.

Venktesh Shukla: Absolutely. It is to critical to understand not only the niche and the technical chops but also the relationship in that target ecosystem. Do you have a member in your team that has that visibility and relationship with the key players in the industry? >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Venktesh Shukla of TiE Angels (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I’ll provide a bit of commentary for the audience on some of the things that you mentioned as trends. We’ve also seen this unstructured data problem being solved. For a couple of decades, there have been major companies that have been formulated on this unstructured data problem. Autonomy was one of them that went very big.

Today, one of the trends that we’re seeing is this whole unstructured data problem being solved for specific verticals or specific functional areas and solutions built on top of that unstructured data problem in a cloud-

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218th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Corey Schmid, Seven Peaks Ventures

Corey Schmid is General Partner at Seven Peaks Ventures, a firm with a focus on the Pacific Northwest.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Venktesh Shukla of TiE Angels (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 Venktesh Shukla was recorded in September 2017.

Venktesh Shukla, founder of TiE Angels and General Partner Monta Vista Capital, discusses some shifts happening in the world of seed investing.

Sramana Mitra: Tell us about TiE Angels and how you work with investors and entrepreneurs.

Venktesh Shukla: TiE Angels is a 7-year-old organization that is a collection of individual investors who, in general, tend to focus on B2B companies. The whole idea is that the collective wisdom of the group helps make better decisions, >>>

6 Seed Investors Present a Variety of Investing Viewpoints via Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum

Not all investors have the same point of view on how they make money off their investments in startups. Read the following investor interviews to understand the wide diversity of investment theses that exist amongst investors.

Yanev Suissa is General Partner at SineWave Ventures, out of Washington, DC, and Silicon Valley. The firm invests alongside some major firms like Andreessen Horowitz and NEA. Yanev talks about how they invest, and also the trends he sees.

Victoria Pettibone, Managing Director of Astia Angels, a group focused on funding women entrepreneurs. She discusses what they like to invest in, as well as the trends she sees in the deal flow and the portfolio.

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219th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Tim Wilson, Artiman Ventures

Tim Wilson, Partner at Artiman Ventures, has been in the venture business for a long time, and refreshingly has the skill and the confidence to do very complex technology deals that are relatively early.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With T.M. Ravi of The Hive (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You mentioned BPO jobs going from US to India and now being replaced by bots. That is eliminating all jobs. Same thing is happening in manufacturing. Manufacturing went from America to China and now it’s getting automated. If we get to self-driving cars, there won’t be Uber drivers. There will be self-driving Uber rides.

At this point, my estimate is in the next 30 to 50 year timeframe, we’re looking at a real possibility of there being very few jobs. What was eye-opening for me is how deep the fears are. I had a little afternoon event on Saturday at my house for Smith College Computer Science group. There were these young women with extremely fantastic resumes. >>>