Catching Up On Readings: VivaTech TC Hackathon 2019

This feature from TechCrunch covers the winner and runners-up of the Hackathon held at VivaTech in Paris last month. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Collision 2019

This feature from Digital Trends covers the highlights of the Collision Conference for tech entreprneurs held in Toronto last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Bongo CEO Josh Kamrath (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How far did you get? In terms of metrics, how long did it take you to reach your first million in revenue?

Josh Kamrath: It took a solid three years to get to the first million. As we were getting to around a million, we expanded our focus in terms of the business model. So that’s an important thing to mention.

Sramana Mitra: What year is this?

Catching Up On Readings: War on Fake News

This feature from CNN looks at how Finland is dealing with fake news and is increasing media literacy and critical thinking in educational institutes. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: VerveCon 2019

This feature from EETimes covers the highlights of VerveCon, an annual Convention for Enthusiastic Women in technology that was held last week in Santa Clara.

Catching Up On Readings: F8 2019

This feature from TechCrunch looks at the key takeaways from
Facebook’s F8 conference held last week in San Jose. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Yuval Harari on AI

This feature from Wired provides the transcript of a recent Stanford interview of author Yuval Noah Harari and Fei-Fei Li, one of the pioneers in the field of artificial intelligence. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

May 8 – Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later Discussion

Startup funding is a low probability game.

LESS than 1% GET funding.

Over 99% get rejected.

Entrepreneurs go to VCs like beggars.

Is there a better way?

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