December 18 – Rendezvous Meetup to Discuss Bootstrapping First, Raising Money Later

For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra in person, please join us for our bi-monthly and informal group meetups. If you are living in the San Francisco Bay Area or are just in town for a visit, we hope you will add these meetups to your calendar and join us. Pre-registration is required, REGISTER HERE.

Location:
Café Borrone
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Time:
Wednesday, December 18, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. PST, Register Here.

Wednesday, January 22, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. PST, Register Here.

Blackbaud – 1Mby1M Social Good Startup Challenge Extended

We have already had great candidates apply for Blackbaud – 1Mby1M Social Good Startup Challenge. Along with a good deal of interest from serious applicants, we have received several requests for a deadline extension. So we have agreed to extend the deadline for everyone to December 15.

You can learn more about this startup challenge here and submit your APPLICATION FOUND HERE by December 15, 2019. 

Catching Up On Readings: Black Friday 2019

This feature from Reuters looks at how online sales surged close to 20% on Black Friday while shopper traffic at retail stores declined. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Thanksgiving 2019

Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers! This feature from TechCrunch looks at the publishing trends in the third quarter of 2019 when the top 1% of publishers globally accounted for a whopping 80% of the total 29.6 billion app downloads. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Premium Internet

This feature from The New York Times Magazine traces the journey of the Internet from Free to Premium. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: India Cloud Spending 2020

This report from Gartner says that end-user spending on public cloud services will grow 25% in 2020. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Top Digital Experience Trends 2020

This report from Gartner identifies nine digital experience trends that organizations need to explore in 2020. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

463rd Roundtable Recording on October 31, 2019: With Anand Rajaraman, rocketship.vc

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: