Cloud Stocks: IBM’s AI Services Focus

Yesterday, IBM (NYSE:IBM) reported its first quarter results that outpaced market expectations. Despite the cautious operating environment, IBM reiterated its outlook as it expects its focus on AI initiatives to drive growth.

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1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Priven Advisors (Part 1)

Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Priven Advisors, discusses his firm’s AI Investment Thesis. We have a very strategic discussion on SaaS, Marketplaces and Agentic AI.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a New Age AI Services Venture

CEO Anji Maram has bootstrapped CriticalRiver to $50M in revenue and is introducing AI into his services business model. We expect to see a lot of this happening all over the tech services ecosystem. AI Services is going to become a massively valuable category.

Sramana Mitra: All right, Anji, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised? What kind of background?

Anji Maram: I’m originally from India as you can tell by my name. I’m from a small village in Andhra Pradesh in South India. It has a very small population that is pretty much into farming community. My parents did not study, my siblings did not study. I somehow ended up studying.

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Best of Bootstrapping: Positioning Drives Velocity

VCs are salivating over ultralight startups right now. The stigma around solo entrepreneurs will vanish soon. Positioning will remain key to achieving Velocity. And Velocity will continue to drive Fundability.

Are you trying to raise money for your startup and getting rejections? It’s worth understanding WHY. VCs are looking for Velocity. Their goal is to achieve $100M in revenue in 5-7 years. How do you do that? You can read more and dialog here on what drives Velocity.

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Building a Venture Scale AI Developer Tool Company: Moderne CEO Jonathan Schneider (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I have a question that comes to my mind. Enterprises have very diverse applications and frameworks. Are there particular frameworks that you specialize in, do better in, or have more training in? Or you can basically walk into any enterprise, do this training right there, and basically build from there?

Building a Venture Scale AI Developer Tool Company: Moderne CEO Jonathan Schneider (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: So now, tell me more about the product and especially where is AI in this story?

Jonathan Schneider: We think of Moderne as large-scale automated code change. That could be for application modernization, security vulnerability repair, or code quality.

Building a Venture Scale AI Developer Tool Company: Moderne CEO Jonathan Schneider (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: So now what about the go-to-market strategy? What were you settling into? You were talking to customers all this while. What was emerging as the go-to-market strategy?

April 24 – 682nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 682nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, April 24, 2025, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 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 can register to Attend to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and REGISTER TO PITCH OR ATTEND HERE. Register and you will receive the recording by email, even if you are unable to attend. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be