1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rami Elkhatib of Acero Capital (Part 2)

Rami Elkhatib: We had been interested in the area of security, specifically application security. We found a fantastic technical team. We found the deep IP and the fantastic product. When we closed that Series A, we had a full product and a full technical team. I hope that illustrates where we tend to be a little bit different.

A typical Series A is typically looking for that initial revenue or that initial customer. We’ve done that as well. From our perspective, we try to take a different approach.

Sramana Mitra: I’m very happy to hear the example that you just provided because among the various tools that we have >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Hasebroock at Dundee 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 Mark Hasebroock of Dundee Venture Capital was recorded in February 2018.

Mark Hasebroock is Founder at Dundee Venture Capital, based in Omaha, Nebraska. The firm invests in the Midwest, likes small, capital-efficient deals and is open to early exits.

Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Dundee. What is your focus? What do you like to invest in?

Mark Hasebroock: We started Dundee Venture Capital in 2010 with the idea from Omaha, Nebraska that there was probably some really good >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alan Chiu at XSeed (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 Alan Chiu of XSeed was recorded in February 2018.

Alan Chiu is Partner at XSeed, a seed-focused venture fund based in Silicon Valley. Alan talks about the level of risk his firm is willing to take and under what circumstances.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s introduce our audience to XSeed. Tell us about the firm.
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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rami Elkhatib of Acero 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 Rami Elkhatib of Acero Capital was recorded in February 2018. 

Rami Elkhatib, General Partner at Acero Capital, talks about his investments in companies that require a longer development cycle. As you know, 1Mby1M often uses Bootstrapping with Services as a core methodology to scale companies to fundability. Rami actually loves to invest in such businesses, read on.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as the fund. What is your focus? What kind of things >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nate Redmond of Alpha Edison (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Comment on unicorn mania for me. We went a little bit crazy with this concept of unicorns. There’s just this very unfortunate twist that the industry has taken. How do you parse unicorn mania?

Nate Redmond: Unicorn status, if you will, became a marker of success that obviously is artificial in many ways.

Sramana Mitra: And flawed.

Nate Redmond: It’s flawed. It’s certainly evident of developing one measure of value which is reflective of an investor or a group of investors’ willingness to buy shares at a price. It doesn’t necessarily translate into long-term economic value. It can, but the correlation is lower than you would otherwise think and expect. The failure rate of unicorns is much higher than people realize. >>>

410th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Slava Rubin, Indiegogo

Slava Rubin, Founder of Indiegogo.com. Slava walked us through the trends on his crowdfunding platform.

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409th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Dafina Toncheva, US Venture Partners

Dafina Toncheva, Partner at US Venture Partners, is an expert in Cyber Security. We discussed a variety of topics including the shifting of Series A metrics to $2M-$3M ARR for SaaS companies.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nate Redmond of Alpha Edison (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Talk about some of the highlights of your portfolio. What have you invested in that you’re excited about?

Nate Redmond: We have been fortunate to watch the early development of our portfolio. We have this company called House Canary. We have a belief and a thesis that residential real estate, as an asset class, is larger than equities in the United States. Despite its size and fragmentation, the level of opacity is fundamentally different than what you’d see in the equity or credit markets.

As transparency around pricing of underlying security, of how to trade, and how to transact has come to those markets, you see a very significant increase in velocity of transactions. When you look at residential real estate, the behaviors that people have exhibited around how >>>