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212th 1M/1M Roundtable: Series A Pitch Needs Clarity On Hard Numbers
By Guest Post at April 26, 2014 | 9:13 am | 0 Comment
212th 1M/1M Roundtable: Series A Pitch Needs Clarity On Hard Numbers During this week’s roundtable we listened to four presentations. The first two entrepreneurs are a part of the Startup Palm Beach meetup, the others are from our general community. Krowde First up, Daniel Gudema from Boca Raton, Florida, pitched Krowde, a mobile social network for small more...
209th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Penn Students
By Guest Post at March 24, 2014 | 10:19 am | 0 Comment
209th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Penn Students During this week’s roundtable, we collaborated with the University of Pennsylvania to support their student entrepreneurship drive. All four presenters today are semi finalists of the PennVention competition. AWARE First up, John Bergantino from Philadelphia, PA, pitched AWARE, a very more...
In The Wake of WhatsApp
By Guest Post at February 24, 2014 | 8:10 am | 0 Comment
The day started with the WhatsApp acquisition by Facebook hanging over entrepreneurs. Everyone is a bit stunned at the price, so it certainly was a topic of discussion at the roundtable. During this week’s roundtable, we saw some really nice businesses, at least a couple of them seem perfectly viable to me. Fish Harmony First up, Nancy Coughlin comes to us more...
204th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: First Time, From Barbados
By Guest Post at February 8, 2014 | 8:36 am | 0 Comment
204th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: First Time, From Barbados You know how much I love seeing entrepreneurs from exotic places at these roundtables. During this week’s roundtable, we had one from Barbados. Approyo First, Chris Carter from Wisconsin pitched Approyo, a Big Data solutions provider in the SAP HANA eco-system. Chris is a member of our more...
202nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: All Emerging Market Ventures
By Guest Post at January 24, 2014 | 8:35 am | 0 Comment
202nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: All Emerging Market Ventures Today’s roundtable, once again, had huge geographical diversity, spanning presenters from Venezuela, China, India, and callers from Ireland, New York, Georgia, Virginia, etc. I always love to hear from entrepreneurs from so many different parts of the world. It’s thrilling to experience the more...
201st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Investors Fund Businesses, Not Concepts
By Guest Post at January 18, 2014 | 11:56 am | 0 Comment
201st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Investors Fund Businesses, Not Concepts During today’s roundtable, we had a couple of formal slide presentations, and a number of shorter dialogues. Direct Dialect First, Thelson Richardson from Miami, Florida, pitched Direct Dialect, a language teaching application. Thelson started off by saying that he wants to more...
200th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Startup Mentoring Takes Patience
By Guest Post at January 10, 2014 | 8:17 am | 0 Comment
200th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Startup Mentoring Takes Patience Of course, today’s roundtable is a major milestone in the history of 1M/1M. It reminds me of our baby-steps and experiments early on in 2008, long before 1M/1M came into being. There is always a bit of poignancy in celebrating such milestones. You can read our synthesis: Mentoring more...
199th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Final One For 2013
By Guest Post at December 21, 2013 | 8:52 am | 0 Comment
199th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Final One For 2013 During today’s roundtable, we had representation from Texas, California, and three cities in India. Nanothermo First up, Rekha Bangalore from Austin, Texas, pitched Nanothermo, a thermal cooling technology for LED lighting. Rekha needs some funding, and is having difficulty cracking the seed market more...
198th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Kae Capital, India
By Guest Post at December 13, 2013 | 10:33 am | 0 Comment
198th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Kae Capital, India During today’s roundtable, we saw a couple of entrepreneurs from the portfolio of Kae Capital based in India. Shopsense First up, Farooq Adam, working with Kae Capital from Mumbai, India, pitched Shopsense, a retail technology solution that enables brick-and-mortar retailers to place more...
197th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Seed India Book Launch
By Guest Post at December 6, 2013 | 10:39 am | 0 Comment
197th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Seed India Book Launch During today’s roundtable, we launched the book Seed India: How To Navigate The Seed Capital Gap In India. The Indian seed eco-system, after improving somewhat for a few years, is stalling, if not regressing, currently. This book is a realistic, pragmatic look at the options entrepreneurs have in more...
196th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Do Your Competitive Analysis
By admin at November 16, 2013 | 11:10 am | 0 Comment
196th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Do Your Competitive Analysis During today’s roundtable, we had a wide variety of businesses. Positive Axis First up, Hary Kalra from Santa Clara, California, pitched Positive Axis, a recruitment concept whereby he wants to build relationships with some candidates and represent them with employers. The closest more...
194th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Book Launch – Feminine Feminism
By Guest Post at November 1, 2013 | 9:34 pm | 0 Comment
194th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Book Launch – Feminine Feminism Today’s roundtable started with the launch of my new book, Feminine Feminism. I read the opening chapter titled ‘Talented Women: Please Do NOT Quit’ for our audience. Here’s how that chapter begins… Five years ago, a good friend of mine hanged herself. I had coffee with her the more...
192nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Serious Entrepreneurs Have Resilience
By Guest Post at October 18, 2013 | 8:14 am | 0 Comment
192nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Serious Entrepreneurs Have Resilience Today’s roundtable had several entrepreneurs who seem like serious folks with the resilience to see their visions through to fruition. HappyWeddings First up, Janaki Pendyala from Hyderabad, India, pitched HappyWeddings, a portal for wedding organizers to connect with vendors like more...
191st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Try To Minimize Capital Risk
By Guest Post at October 11, 2013 | 8:22 am | 0 Comment
191st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Try To Minimize Capital Risk Today’s roundtable had its usual share of entrepreneurs dreaming about raising capital on concepts without validation. Sometimes, I wonder, when, if ever, we’re going to get this epidemic under control! MoYoTv First up, Dollie Darko, from Greenwich, CT, pitched MoYoTv – a television more...
190th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Devil Lies In The Details
By Guest Post at October 5, 2013 | 8:57 am | 0 Comment
190th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Devil Lies In The Details Today’s roundtable had some interesting entrepreneurs from around the world. EventsTiger First up, Nizamudheen Valliyattu, from Chennai, India, pitched EventsTiger, an ‘event community’ where organizers promote events, participants network, etc. My main issue with the idea is that it more...
189th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Launch Of A New Book
By Guest Post at September 28, 2013 | 8:22 am | 0 Comment
189th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Launch Of A New Book We launched a new book at today’s roundtable with a short reading from one of the chapters. The book, The Other 99% (Entrepreneurs): Fortune In The Middle Of The Pyramid, is a collection of essays introducing my current thinking on why over 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing get rejected. It is more...
188th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: SMB Focused Offerings
By Guest Post at September 20, 2013 | 8:20 am | 0 Comment
188th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: SMB Focused Offerings Today’s roundtable had an interesting mix of companies ranging from Internet-of-things to daily deals platforms. SSRLabs We started with Axel Kloth from Palo Alto, California, who pitched SSRLabs, a semiconductor concept. Axel rightly pointed out that chip funding in the Valley has dried up, and more...
187th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Peer Validation Is Irrelevant
By Guest Post at September 14, 2013 | 8:37 am | 0 Comment
187th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Peer Validation Is Irrelevant Today’s roundtable was yet another global event with entrepreneurs pitching from Brazil, India, United States and Europe. UTripz First, Eduardo Cardoso from Minas Gerais, Brazil, pitched UTripz, which he wants to build up to be an ad-supported content site featuring the top 300 travel more...
186th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Mentoring Networks Do Not Work
By Guest Post at September 7, 2013 | 8:23 am | 0 Comment
186th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Mentoring Networks Do Not Work Today’s roundtable had the concluding portion of the presentations from Pakistan that I talked about last week. Smart SurgiSol First, Syed Hassan from Islamabad, Pakistan, pitched Smart SurgiSol, a training solution for surgeons looking to learn how to perform laparoscopic surgery and more...
185th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
By Guest Post at August 30, 2013 | 10:41 am | 0 Comment
185th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Today’s roundtable gave us a unique opportunity to peek into Pakistan’s entrepreneurial eco-system. Due to the efforts of Sennen Desouza with the Institute for Business Administration (IBA), we got to interact with entrepreneurs from Pakistan, and some of them will be pitching at the next roundtable session as well. If you more...
