555th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Seksom Suriyapa, Upfront Ventures

Seksom Suriyapa, Partner at Upfront Ventures, and formerly head of Corp Dev at Twitter, SuccessFactors, McAfee and Akamai, discusses exit strategy from the buy-side perspective at length.

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Colors: Namibia II

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and

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554th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures

Deepak Gupta, Founding Partner at WEH Ventures, discusses his fund’s pre-seed and seed funding strategy for Indian startups.

Colors: Namibia I

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and

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Non-Technical Founder Scaling SaaS Venture to Exit: Velocify Founder Jeff Solomon (Part 6)

Jeff Solomon: I talked to some other mentors and people I’ve met over the years and came to the conclusion that it was better for me to leave the day-to-day operations. I probably undersold my value to our Board and to our investors. The investors didn’t appreciate the scrappy founder guy like they do now.

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Non-Technical Founder Building a Tech Startup to over $10M: David Moricca, CEO of Socialive (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What year did you launch Socialive? David Moricca: July 2016 was when we first brought the product out. Then we rebranded it to Socialive in October 2016. The last five years, we’ve been Socialive. Sramana Mitra: How did you price the product?

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping to $10M from Finland

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  In our effort to bring you stories from the global startup ecosystem, here we introduce you to Mikko Valimaki, Co-founder of Tuxera, and his wonderful success story from Finland. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were

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December 16 – 557th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 557th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, December 16, 2021, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others

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