1Mby1M Udemy Courses with Sramana Mitra: Financing

Raising money to build a startup is a huge challenge. To be able to raise any money at all, you must first understand how investors think. We have developed the following courses catering to entrepreneurs in different stages of their entrepreneurial journey.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Padmaja Ruparel of Indian Angel Network (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Padmaja Ruparel was recorded in December 2017. 

Padmaja Ruparel is Co-founder, Indian Angel Network (IAN), and Founding Partner, IAN Fund. She has been a key player in shaping India’s still somewhat nascent startup eco-system. Those interested in Indian startups and the funding trends should read on.

Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Indian Angel Network and the journey you’ve had building it. What is going on there now? What is working? What is not working? What have you learned through this process? >>>

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213th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Alan Chiu, XSeed

Alan Chiu is Partner at XSeed, a seed-focused venture fund based in Silicon Valley. Alan talks about the level of risk his firm is willing to take and under what circumstances.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sunil Bhargava of Tandem Capital (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Sunil Bhargava was recorded in October 2017. 

Sunil Bhargava, Founder and Managing Partner, Tandem Capital, helped us explore the difference of post-seed versus pre-Series A financing.

Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Tandem. What is the focus of the firm? How big is the fund? What size investments are you making?

Sunil Bhargava: We are currently investing out of our third fund. It’s a $100 million fund. Our first check is usually $1 million >>>

388th Roundtable Recording on March 1, 2018: With Gary Little, Canvas Ventures

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Mason of Aligned Partners (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Susan Mason was recorded in October 2015. 

Susan Mason, General Partner at Aligned Ventures, talks about the dysfunctions of the broader venture capital model, and what her firm is doing to address those. Excellent conversation.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s introduce our audience to you and the model that you have come up with. The current mainstream venture capital industry, in my opinion, is spinning out of control. Let’s talk about your observations about what’s happening in the industry today and how you are doing something different to counter that. >>>

214th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Amos Ben-Meir, Sand Hill Angels

Amos Ben-Meir, Investor & Board Director at Sand Hill Angels, is a veteran angel investor. You will hear lots of details on working with a prominent angel group, as well as other types of syndicates.

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Roundtable Recap: March 1 – One Size Does Not Fit All

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Gary Little, Co-founder at Canvas Ventures. We discussed the various types of venture capital and the evolution of the industry into a rather segmented current eco-system. For an entrepreneur trying to raise money, all this is extremely complicated, but essential to understand, or else, you would be trying to fit a round peg in a square hole.

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As for the entrepreneur pitch, Mark McChiery from Cape Town, South Africa, pitched Passmarked.com, a web site audit service that tackles security, content, and other important aspects of running a web presence. I found the venture promising and was thrilled to see such a venture emerge from South Africa.

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6 Investors Discuss Startup Financing via the Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum

From listening to VCs and Seed Investors over the past few years, we have learned that the options for startup financing continue to expand. However, it is important to remember that not all ventures can be financed and not all ventures should be financed. To learn if your startup might be of interest to VCs, Angels, or Seed Investors, please read this selection of interviews with a wide-range of investors.

Naren Gupta, Co-founder of Nexus Venture Partners – a firm with an excellent track record of investing in the Silicon Valley – India corridor, but with a global market point of view – shares his insights, nuggets, and interesting wisdom. He is a veteran investor who is also strikingly polite and humble.

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387th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Nate Redmond, Alpha Edison

Nate Redmond, Managing Partner at Alpha Edison, a VC who has put trust-driven ventures at the center of his investment thesis. It’s a very interesting conversation for both entrepreneurs and investors to listen to.

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217th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Rami Elkhatib, Acero Capital

Rami Elkhatib, General Partner at Acero Capital, talks about his investments in companies that require a longer development cycle. As you know, 1Mby1M often uses Bootstrapping with Services as a core methodology to scale companies to fundability. Rami actually loves to invest in such businesses, listen on.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Stewart Alsop of Alsop Louie Partners (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Stewart Alsop was recorded in May 2016. 

Stewart Alsop, Partner at Alsop Louie Partners, has been a VC for 20 years, and before that, a journalist for another 20 years in the technology industry. This conversation is wide-ranging, spanning autonomous vehicles, unreasonable entrepreneurs, etc.

Sramana Mitra: You’ve been in the business for 20 plus years and you’ve covered technology as a journalist 20 years before that. I’ve been in the business for 20 years. >>>

216th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Rajul Garg, Leo Capital

Rajul Garg, Head of Investments at Leo Capital, discusses the Indian startup eco-system and his fund’s investment focus.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Todd Belfer of Canal Partners (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Todd Belfer was recorded in October 2017. 

Todd Belfer, Managing Partner of Canal Partners, talks about financing early-stage niche B-to-B SaaS opportunities.

Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Canal Partners. What is the focus of the firm? How big is the fund? What size investments do you make? Where are you based?

Todd Belfer: I started Canal Partners nine years ago because I saw need in the South West to fund early stage software >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Swati Chaturvedi of Propel(x) Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Swati Chaturvedi was recorded in August 2017. 

Swati Chaturvedi is Co-founder and CEO at Propel(x), an online platform where entrepreneurs are connected to angels. Swati and I discussed some of the key trends of the seed financing eco-system as viewed from Propel(x).

Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Propel(x).

Swati Chaturvedi: Propel(x) is an investment marketplace where we connect startups with accredited investors. Our goal is >>>

387th Roundtable Recording on February 22, 2018: With Nate Redmond, Alpha Edison

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