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316th Roundtable Recording On August 4, 2016: With Bryce Roberts, OATV and Indie.vc

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Roundtable Recap: August 4 – Alternatives to Traditional Venture Capital with Bryce Roberts, Indie VC

During this week’s roundtable, our guest was Bryce Roberts, Managing Director, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), and Founder, Indie.vc. We discussed the issues with the venture capital financing model, and explored alternatives.

ADDVentures
First up pitching, Alina Shcherbinina from St. Petersburg, Russia, shared ADDventures, an adventure travel planning service. I gave her extensive feedback on the product direction and business model based on my own travel planning experiences.

Vdrink App
Then Sanket Jain from San Francisco pitched Vdrink App, an app for organizing impromptu happy hours for groups of people focused on Indian cities. The concept needs validation.
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310th Roundtable Recording On June 23, 2016: With T.M. Ravi, The Hive

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Roundtable Recap: June 23 – The 3-month Acceleration Model for Startups is Bogus

During this week’s roundtable, our guest was T.M. Ravi, Managing Director and Co-founder, The Hive, a venture studio. The discussion touched upon a couple of key issues: the prevalent incubator/accelerator model of 3-month classes, we agreed, is bogus; and the Future of Work: Utopia or Dystopia?

CloudKnots
As for the pitches, first up, Prajit Arakkal from Dubai pitched CloudKnots, which is a concept arbitrage on Task Rabbit and UpWork. I shared my skepticism of why a new platform is necessary. How would it compete with the incumbents?
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287th Roundtable Recording On Dec. 17, 2015: With Engineering Capital Founder Ashmeet Sidana

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