Catching Up On Readings: Cloud IPOs

This feature from Bloomberg Opinion by Tae Kim analyzes the demand for IPOs of cloud-based companies like nCino. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Rendezvous Online Recording: July 14, 2020

Some audience questions answered by Sramana:
– How do you bootstrap an AI startup?
– How can I get feedback on my startup venture?

493rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Joe Silver

Joe Silver discusses his firm’s debt-financing model for startups.

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Catching Up On Readings: AI Trends 2020

This report from CB Insights analyzes the trends, themes, and challenges in 2020 as artificial intelligence moves from hype state to practical usage. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Rendezvous Online Recording: July 7, 2020

Sharing insights and answering questions from entrepreneurs about building successful startups. Some audience questions answered by Sramana:
– Do you have startup ideas for the post-covid world that would address the issues of isolation and loneliness?
– What are some eCommerce startup ideas?
– What questions should entrepreneurs ask their mentors?
– How can entrepreneurs get feedback from you on their startup ventures?

Startup Ideas for the Post Covid World: Home-Based Healthcare

Certain sectors of industry are facing extraordinary levels of job loss in the post-Covid era. While some of these jobs may come back, it is widely believed that some trends are permanent. The retail sector faces one of the greatest shifts: the move to online shopping seems irreversible. Retail stores and malls are rapidly closing down. Service sector jobs in retail and hospitality face a grim future.

There is, however, a solution.

Service sector employees can be retrained as healthcare professionals.

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Catching Up On Readings: Top Post COVID Sectors

This report from CBI Insights analyzes the industries that are poised to thrive in the post-COVID world. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Covid Crisis: A Summary

Friends, we’re all struggling to get our arms around the Covid crisis. I suggest you listen to this video webinar from my friend Anne DeGheest.

Anne pioneered the HealthTech or Digital Health space as a healthcare executive, an entrepreneur, angel investor, corporate advisor and mentor capitalist. She is the founder of HealthTech Capital and MedStars. She organizes and moderates the HealthTech Conference on how to successfully build innovative HealthTech businesses and change healthcare delivery.

This is one of the best summaries of where we are right now that I have seen.