427th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Daniel Keiper-Knorr, SpeedInvest

Daniel Keiper-Knorr is Founder and General Partner at SpeedInvest, a venture firm based in Vienna. It’s great to see exciting energy and activity in Vienna, one of my favorite cities.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alireza Rahnema of 7 Gate 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 Alireza Rahnema was recorded in January 2019.

Alireza Rahnema, Principal and General Partner at 7 Gate Ventures, talks about the Vancouver startup ecosystem and his firm’s investment thesis.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by getting you acquainted with our audience. Tell us about you. Tell us about 7 Gate Ventures. What kind of investment strategy are you following? >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sumner Douglas of BoomStartup (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 George Spencer was recorded in January 2019.

Sumner Douglas is Managing Director and Venture Partner at BoomStartup, a Utah-based accelerator that offers pre-seed funding.

Sramana Mitra: Tell us what you’ve been up to. Tell us a bit about yourself as well about BoomStartup. >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Stone of Sierra Wasatch Capital (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: So geography. You said you’ve invested in Los Angeles. You invested in New York. Are those the two places where you invest mostly or are there other places as well?

Susan Stone: You know we’re pretty open within the US. Because we have that hands-on strategy, we really like to invest in places where we can be there.

Sramana Mitra: You said Michigan too, right? The lawn one is in Michigan.

Susan Stone: The lawn one was in Michigan. >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Stone of Sierra Wasatch Capital (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. There’s one more?

Susan Stone: There’s one more. The last one is Canvas, which is based in New York. Canvas is the very first company that measures emotions analytically. I’m very proud of the founder Jared Feldman for really opening up that market for emotional measurement. >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Stone of Sierra Wasatch Capital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: But I think Mighty Network is not just for entrepreneurs. I’ve talked to Gina about this. It’s also about educators who want to run their own courses and they want conversations around certain topics that they are experts in. There’re are many use cases.

Susan Stone: You don’t have to use it to make money. If you’re a niche brand, you can use it to bring people together around your niche brand.

Sramana Mitra:  It’s a great brand marketing tool actually. Personal brand as well as any kind of brand. It’s a good marketing tool.

Sustan Stone: Absolutely. By the way, we think of all those people as entrepreneurs. All those people fit into our definition of entrepreneurs. >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Stone of Sierra Wasatch Capital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Can you walk me through a bit of a use case? For example, I’m just going to use our own video content as proxy. We have a YouTube channel, that is the 1M1M roundtable channel that’s full of entrepreneurship-related content. If I were to use your technology to distribute this content, what are you bringing to me? What is this company bringing to me?

Susan Stone: I’m not sure that you would necessarily want to use this technology because you’re using YouTube. If you’re already distributing on YouTube, you’vea little bit of this already because YouTube has a personalization engine. When somebody watches your video, they’ll give you the thumbnail of who you should watch next. >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Stone of Sierra Wasatch Capital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting and quite different from a lot of the perspective that we see because there is a huge question mark around the media industry’s evolution. I’m quite involved in a bunch of things. We have at least one partnership with a large media company.

All that aside, I’d like to understand how many investments you have made in this sector with this investment thesis. Could you walk us through what each of those ventures are? I normally would ask for just maybe one or two examples to get a sense or feeling for the thinking.

In the case of the media industry, it would be interesting to see where you see possibilities of sustainable businesses emerging. I’m very interested in working through that with you and bringing that to our audience. >>>