538th Roundtable Recording with Ben Narasin, Tenacity Venture Capital

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Roundtable Recap: July 15 – The Definition of Success is Personal

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ben Narasin, Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital, a new Seed fund.

Agricoltura

As for our entrepreneur pitch, we had Davide Balbi, from Cassino, Italy, pitching Agricoltura, a farming venture.

PontApp

Next, we had Charvi Garg from New Delhi, India, pitching the PontApp, a scheduling app that she needs to position more precisely.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Karthee Madasamy, Founder and Managing Partner at Mobile Foundation Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Your portfolio is almost entirely enterprise-focused companies, right? You do B2B enterprise businesses?

Karthee Madasamy: That is correct. 

Sramana Mitra: Let me underscore what you are saying. When we started getting into this COVID mode of doing business, the buyers were not used to buying technology just based on a Zoom meeting. This is true unless it is a small deal size telesales-oriented sales flow.

537th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot – Part II

Dharmesh Shah, Founder and CTO of HubSpot, discusses his entrepreneurial journey with candor, humility, and generosity. Wonderful conversation, this is Part II.

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537th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot – Part I

Dharmesh Shah, Founder and CTO of HubSpot, discusses his entrepreneurial journey with candor, humility, and generosity. Wonderful conversation, this is Part I.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Karthee Madasamy, Founder and Managing Partner at Mobile Foundation Ventures (Part 1)

Karthee Madasamy is the Founder and Managing Partner at Mobile Foundation Ventures. We discuss the nuances of Deep Tech investing.

Sramana Mitra: Karthee has been here before. We are going to catch up and level set on how COVID has been and how the ecosystem around us is evolving. Welcome back. It’s great to see you. 

Karthee Madasamy: It’s great to see you too. Thank you. 

537th Roundtable Recording on July 8, 2021: With Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jon Staenberg, Managing Partner at Staenberg Venture Partners (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Would you write the term sheet? Would you lead?

Jon Staenberg: I used to a lot. At this point, I am not. To help in a situation, I would rather see a focused institutional firm. For me, pricing is not the signal that I want to give to the market. I would like to find the furthest focus on that particular category, startup, or stage to price it so that people can get behind that where I can say, “Okay, they have done deep due diligence. They are going to be really involved. Let’s see what the market bears are saying.”

I don’t have good stats to back this up, but valuations have been all over the map. Compared to when I was pricing rounds, I still get a little heartache over valuations. I was asked to price recently and I thought that I was way too high. I said that I was going to invest, I liked the people a lot. It ended up rebounding amazingly and the price was higher.