Roundtable Recap: April 29 – What to Expect in Investor Due Diligence

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Alok Nandan, Founding General Partner, First Rays Venture Partners. Alok discussed the firm’s investment thesis which is very well defined and focused.

Tariy.at

As for our entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Andres Sigcha from Phoenix, Arizona, pitching Tariy.ai, a B-to-B venture.

YapPolitics

Next, we had Aidan Stephen from Los Angeles, California, pitching YapPolitics, a B-to-C venture.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Udemy Courses Based on 1Mby1M Methodology

Over the years, we have developed a proven methodology for building tech startups. We recently started packaging the 1Mby1M methodology into short courses on Udemy. The courses are very reasonably priced. In addition, Udemy offers them at deep discounts from time to time. This is an extension of our strategy to democratize entrepreneurship education at scale, globally.

Below are the courses so far. To apply current discount coupons, click on your course within the blog series found HERE.

Bootstrapping:

Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later with Sramana Mitra

Bootstrapping a Startup with a Paycheck with Sramana Mitra

Bootstrapping a Startup with Services with Sramana Mitra

How to Bootstrap Startups by Piggybacking with Sramana Mitra

How to Bootstrap a Startup to Exit with Sramana Mitra

How To Succeed As A Solo Entrepreneur with Sramana Mitra

How Investors Think:

VC Due Diligence Questions For Startups With Sramana Mitra

Alternatives to Unicorn Chasing Investors with Sramana Mitra

How Pre-Seed Investors Think About Startups with Sramana Mitra

How Seed Investors Think About Startups with Sramana Mitra

Post-Seed and Pre-Series A Investors on Startups with Sramana Mitra

How Seed Investors Think About Deep Tech with Sramana Mitra

How Investors Think About Startups in India with Sramana Mitra

How Investors Think About European Startups with Sramana Mitra

How Investors Think of Startups in Latin America with Sramana Mitra

How Investors Think About Startups in the Midwest with Sramana Mitra

How Women Investors Think About Startups with Sramana Mitra

Lessons From The Trenches:

From Developer to Entrepreneur Case Studies | Sramana Mitra

How To Build Unicorn Tech Startups with Sramana Mitra

Entrepreneurship Case Studies from India 1 with Sramana Mitra

Entrepreneurship Case Studies from Europe 1 with Sramana Mitra

How to Build Tech Startups in Latin America with Sramana Mitra

Keys to Success for Women Entrepreneurs with Sramana Mitra

How Non-Technical Founders Build Startups with Sramana Mitra

Domain-specific Case Studies and Startup Ideas:

Generative AI Startup Strategy Case Studies | Sramana Mitra

PropTech Startup Case Studies with Sramana Mitra

Student Entrepreneur Startup Case Studies with Sramana Mitra

Startup Ideas for the Post Covid World with Sramana Mitra

How to Build E-commerce Startups with Sramana Mitra

How to Build 2-Sided E-commerce Marketplaces with Sramana Mitra

How To Build AI Startups with Sramana Mitra

How to Build Online Education Startups with Sramana Mitra

How to Build Digital Health Startups with Sramana Mitra

How to Build an Online Fashion Startup with Sramana Mitra

How to Build an IoT Startup with Sramana Mitra

How to Build a FinTech Startup with Sramana Mitra

How to Build a Cyber Security Startup with Sramana Mitra

How to Grow Communities of Entrepreneurs with Sramana Mitra

How to Teach Technology Entrepreneurship with Sramana Mitra

How to Build a Tech Entrepreneurship Blog with Sramana Mitra

We will continue to publish new courses throughout the year.

Catching Up On Readings: State of Healthcare Q1’21

This report from CB Insights covers the global healthcare investment trends in key verticals, top deals, and active investors in the sector. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Hybrid Work Challenges and Opportunities for CIOs

This feature from The Wall Street Journal covers the challenges and opportunities for CIOs as they reimagine a new era of “hybrid” work in the coming months, with employees splitting time between their homes and physical offices. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: 2021 Q1 IPOs

This feature from Crunchbase News covers the tech IPOs during the first quarter of the year 2021. There were 275 IPOs in all, driven by a surge in SPACs. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Tech Frenemies

This feature from The Wall Street Journal looks at how the tech giants Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook are both cooperating while competing in cloud computing, digital advertising, social media and live streaming, news aggregation, videogaming, app marketplaces, and enterprises suites. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Innovations in 2D Materials

This feature from The Wall Street Journal looks at the innovations and experiments beings done with 2D materials like Graphene that are used in microchips and could replace Silicon in the future. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Best of Bootstrapping: ADDA Co-founder CEO Bootstrapped with a Paycheck in India

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page.

Sangeeta (San) Banerjee is the Co-founder and CEO of ADDA, formerly ApartmentADDA.com, an Indian web application company. She holds a degree in electrical engineering from Guindy and earned her master’s from Louisiana State University. Prior to founding ApartmentADDA, she worked for Tata Consultancy Services from 1999 to 2003 and then went on to postgraduate education. After graduating from Louisiana State University she worked for Capgemini in Chicago for a year before returning to India to work for SAP India.

Sramana Mitra: Sangeeta, let’s start at the beginning of your story. Where are you from, and what were the circumstances of your childhood?

San Banerjee: I am from Kolkata. I grew up in a very conservative environment. Where I was from, girls were not supposed to ride a bicycle. I went to school on the other end of the city, and I commuted to school by myself. I would ride a bicycle to a ferry, then once on the other side of the river I would take a bus to school. Many people felt that my parents were careless with their daughter’s safety, but my parents really wanted me to be self-sufficient. They wanted me to know how to take care of myself. My belief that I can do anything I want to stems from my parents. I used to face a lot of ridicule for riding a bicycle. They would tell me to stay off the road and tell me to keep my cycle on the playground.

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