498th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Shripriya Mahesh, Spero Ventures

Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner at Spero Ventures, talks about mission-driven investing.

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498th Roundtable Recording on August 13, 2020: With Shripriya Mahesh, Spero Ventures

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Roundtable Recap: August 13 – Mission-Driven Investing

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner at Spero Ventures, talking about mission-driven investing.

Wander Womaniya

As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Anuj Jain, from New Delhi, India, pitching Wander Womaniya, an online travel agency for solo women travellers.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Deborah Quazzo of GSV Ventures (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: I have been covering online education from a journalistic point of view for a long time. You must have heard this expression, sage-on-stage to guide-on-side, where the teacher was asking people to go and look at YouTube videos or Khan Academy videos and then coming and doing exercise in class.

497th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Mike Edelhart, Social Starts, Joyance Partners

Mike Edelhart, Managing Partner at Social Starts and Joyance Partners, shares some fascinating developments from their portfolio, especially a healthcare startup that is thriving in the Covid-era.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Deborah Quazzo of GSV Ventures (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: That’s the conversation I had with Andrew in the context of Course Hero. He was trying to figure out a strategy for leveraging that trend of the celebrity teacher or the superstar teacher as you called – leveraging expertise, creating, and giving people a platform to teach on the Course Hero platform by riding on that trend. I think that is a major trend as well.

Deborah Quazzo: Everyone’s a teacher. 

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Deborah Quazzo of GSV Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What are some other success criteria and failure criteria in your pattern matching? You talked extensively about teacher adoption and viral spread and then monetization through parents as one of the pieces of success versus the failure criteria of trying to spell one by one to professors or teachers or school administrations. Are there any other such patterns in either direction that you have synthesized?

497th Roundtable Recording on August 6, 2020: With Mike Edelhart, Social Starts and Joyance Partners

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