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.

332nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Victoria Pettibone, Astia Angels

Victoria Pettibone, Managing Director of Astia Angels, a group focused on funding women entrepreneurs. She discusses what they like to invest in, as well as the trends she sees in the deal flow and the portfolio.

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What Are Seed Investors Looking For With Ashmeet Sidana

We’re doing a deep dive into the current seed investment eco-system and talking to our investor friends about what they’re looking for.

Here, you can hear the perspective of Ashmeet Sidana of Engineering Capital:

Come talk to me to brainstorm, strategize, weigh your funding options.

10 Podcasts with Investors on Seed Financing for Startups

Once upon a time, there used to be Seed and Series A as financing options for startups. Now, we have pre-seed, seed, pre-Series A, and THEN Series A. And the Series A can often be a small $1-3 Million round, which typically comes from small venture firms. The bigger, more traditional firms have moved upstream, raising bigger and bigger funds. They can only do $5-10M Series A rounds, which often have the characteristics of Series B.

If you are a startup entrepreneur looking for help navigating the myriad stages of seed investing, please have a listen to the following 30-minute podcast interviews with some of today’s most respected Seed Investors.

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368th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Cindy Padnos, Illuminate Ventures

Cindy Padnos, Founder and Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures, discusses a topic that we’ve been highlighting recently: the need for multiple seed rounds as a way to bridge the Series A gap.

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339th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Aniruddha Malpani, Malpani Ventures

Aniruddha Malpani, Director and Founder of Malpani Ventures, is an active angle investor in the Indian circuit. He discusses what he looks for in companies he wants to invest in.

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350th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Darshan Vyas, LOUD Capital

Darshan Vyas, Co-Founder Managing Director, LOUD Capital, discusses seed investing in the startup eco-system in the Mid-West from Ohio.

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368th Roundtable Recording On September 21, 2017: With Cindy Padnos, Illuminate Ventures

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Roundtable Recap: September 21 – Cindy Padnos of Illuminate Ventures on Multi-phase Seed Funding

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Cindy Padnos, Founder and Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures. Cindy spoke on a topic that we’ve been highlighting recently: the need for multiple seed rounds as a way to bridge the Series A gap.

OLB Tech
As for the pitches, first up, we had Miguel Ortiz and
Amarilis Ortiz from Atlanta, Georgia, pitching OLB Tech. This team has a nailpolish dispenser that applies and dries polish rapidly. Looks to me like a perfect Kickstarter campaign!

iCustomMadeIt
Next, 1Mby1M premium member Raj Iyer pitched iCustomMadeIt, a 2-sided marketplace for custom merchandise. We went over Raj’s investor pitch, and how to revise it. The company already has revenue and a significant channel partner through 1Mby1M.

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6 Podcast Interviews with Seed Investors

There are shifts happening in the world of seed investing. Some questions are emerging:

How do you process the current investment climate where capital is moving further and further upstream? How does an angel investor (or an entrepreneur, for that matter) mitigate the Series A gap? How do you parse Unicorn mania? As an angel investor, you could get buried under later stage liquidation preferences. How do you protect yourself?

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365th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Venktesh Shukla, TiE Angels

Venktesh Shukla, founder of TiE Angels and General Partner Monta Vista Capital, discusses some shifts happening in the world of seed investing.

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364th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Greg Besner, CultureIQ

Greg Besner, Founder and CEO at CultureIQ, is a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor. We discuss both his journey as an entrepreneur, lessons thereof, as well as his methodology and philosophy of angel investing.

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363rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Swati Chaturvedi, Propel(x)

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).

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310th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With T.M. Ravi, The Hive

T.M. Ravi is Managing Director and Co-founder of The Hive, a venture studio. The discussion touches upon a couple of key issues: the prevalent incubator/accelerator model of 3-month classes, we agreed, is bogus; and the Future of Work: Utopia or Dystopia?

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365th Roundtable Recording on August 31, 2017: With Venktesh Shukla, TiE Angels

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here [interview begins at 1:09:55]:

Roundtable Recap: August 31 – What Seed Investors Are Looking For with Venk Shukla of Monta Vista Capital and TiE Angels

There are shifts happening in the world of seed investing.

Questions are emerging:

How do you process the current investment climate where capital is moving further and further upstream? How does an angel investor (or an entrepreneur, for that matter) mitigate the Series A gap? How do you parse Unicorn mania? As an angel investor, you could get buried under later stage liquidation preferences. How do you protect yourself?

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