September 19 – 655th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 655th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, September 19, 2024, 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 interested. All are welcome!

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654th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: September 12 – Five Interesting Pitches

During this week’s roundtable, we had a full roster of interesting pitches.

Cheenta Academy and Panini8

First, we had Ashani Dasgupta from Kolkata, India, pitch Cheenta Academy. The company has $300k in revenue and needs to figure out a Positioning. Accordingly, a GTM can be derived.

Bharat Finserv

Next Bishnu Mohanty from Mumbai, India, pitched Bharat Finserv. We worked on a crisp elevator pitch.

Proact AI

Then Adarsh Jain from Noida, India, pitched Proact AI, a concept-stage venture focused on addressing retail theft.

College X Connect

Shivanshu Shukla from New Delhi, India, then pitched College X Connect, a proposed platform for exchanging course notes, professional networking, and freelancing.

Gunsens

Next we had Michael Lyon from Fort Myers, Florida, pitch Gunsens, a monitoring and alert system to prevent gun violence.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Sailesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Partner at Rocketship.vc (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Can we talk about a few use cases of the kinds of companies you’ve invested in with that thesis?

Sailesh Ramakrishnan: Absolutely. I can point to one of each. In the tooling area, we are investors in a company called TALC. TALC tries to solve the problem of how you assess the quality of output coming from an AI system.

654th1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 654th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, September 12, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!         

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Sailesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Partner at Rocketship.vc (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Very interesting. All right, so now I’m gonna switch back to the more usual way I do the AI investment thesis discussion, which is to ask you about your firm’s perspective about AI investments and how are you thinking about it? What is your investment thesis in AI?

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Sailesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Partner at Rocketship.vc (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So could you double click on your AI algorithm of finding companies and give us a case study of a company that you found with that algorithm? What were the heuristics of how you found this and what were you looking for? How did the algorithm find what you were looking for? How did it go about developing that relationship and finally investing in that company?