551st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Sandeep Sardana, BluePointe Ventures

Sandeep Sardana is Founder and General Partner at BluePointe Ventures. We had a terrific discussion on how we each look for a startup story through financial metrics.

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9 Udemy Courses on How to Raise Post-Seed Startup Funding

Raising money is a huge challenge. To be able to raise any money at all, you must first understand how investors think.

This specific course covers how post-seed and pre-Series A investors analyze startups and what they are looking for. We will have in-depth conversations around startups and funding with several real-world investors.

10 Udemy Courses on How to Raise Seed Startup Funding

One frustrating observation remains with me. Entrepreneurs constantly come to us for assistance with their funding in situations where their chances of fundraising are ZERO.

We can’t do anything to assist them, regardless of how strong our investor connections are. We can’t help startups get funding until they are fundable. It pains me to see so many entrepreneurs who have no concept of what it takes to raise funds.

4 Udemy Courses on How To Build a Unicorn Startup

Unicorn is a startup with an estimated valuation of over $1 billion. More than 1000 unicorns exist today.

Snowflake, Atlassian, ServiceNow are examples of startup unicorns. They’re massive, multi-billion dollar publicly traded companies now. Yet, they all started as an idea, took one step after another, grew in size, and so on.

Roundtable Recap: October 7 – Exit Strategy – Further Guidance

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Jukka Alanen, SVP of Strategy and Corporate Development at PagerDuty, to discuss Exit Strategy.

V-REAP

For the entrepreneur pitch, we had Yugandhar Dodda from Hyderabad, India, pitch V-REAP, a rural skill development social venture.

eelspace

Then David Orok from Uyo, Nigeria, pitched eelspace, a freelancer marketplace for Nigeria.

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548th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Lloyed Lobo, Boast.ai

Lloyed Lobo, Co-founder and President of Boast.ai, discusses his failures and eventual success building AI startups. Wonderful conversation.

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548th Roundtable Recording with Lloyed Lobo, Boast.ai

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Roundtable Recap: September 30 – What Works and What Doesn’t in AI Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Lloyed Lobo, Co-founder and President of Boast.ai, discussing his failures and eventual success building AI startups. Wonderful conversation.

Teleperson

For the entrepreneur pitch, we had Jesse Hollander, from Delray Beach, Florida, pitch Teleperson. Unfortunately, as I have said repeatedly, it is impossible to raise money to build MVPs, and this conversation is yet another iteration of this same flawed assumption that pervades the startup ecosystem.

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