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Faisal is one of those rare entrepreneurs who have managed to grow his business with no outside financing to significant scale. We discuss his journey
There’s a common problem with Founder-led Sales: Positioning changes on the fly on a daily basis.
Let’s look at a scenario for a virtual meeting product out to compete wit… Read More
IBM (NYSE: IBM) recently announced strong results for its second quarter that surpassed analyst estimates driven by a boost in its AI business.
IBM’s Financials
Revenues for… Read More
I always love Bootstrapping to Exit stories. Chris and his brother bootstrapped a wonderful startup and sold it for $40M. Read on for the nuances.
Sramana Mitra: All right… Read More
What problem does your product solve with a unique unfair advantage?
What ideal customer has that problem?
These questions are at the heart of Positioning.
To derive Segmentatio… Read More
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I see segmentation errors left, right and center.
As such, I see sloppy TAM models left, right and center too.
Segmentation requires a precise profiling of your ideal customer with a h… Read More
Sramana Mitra: So let me double click down on the second one. I will come to the picks and shovels in a moment, but my observation is that to build a vertical application on top of an LLM, y… Read More
Sramana Mitra: Power story is a very complex story. As you were talking about your training, I was thinking about my engineering training and one of my favorite courses at MIT was Anant Agar… Read More
More often than not, an honest Total Available Market (TAM) analysis yields small or medium sized markets. This could range from $50M, $100M, $200M to $500M.
If you have such a situat… Read More
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) recently reported its fourth quarter results that missed estimates. But despite the weak results, the market was impressed given the strong Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (O… Read More
Sramana Mitra: All right, let’s discuss the second example.
Ashmeet Sidana: Sure, another example I’m very proud of is a company called Robust Intelligence. Again, I was the f… Read More
An acute lack of understanding of Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) and an inadequate Market Segmentation result in artificially bloated TAM.
Often, Segmentation is too broad.
Let’s l… Read More
Ashmeet Sidana, Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital, talks about his AI investment thesis. It’s a wonderful discussion that not only entrepreneurs should listen to, but investors sho… Read More
Building A High-Impact EdTech Venture From Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 7) - Sramana Mitra
Sramana Mitra: What percentage of the students of these 10K students on your platform are performing at high levels?
Josh Jones: Let me, tell you our latest number. I think it is 581 in t… Read More
I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and… Read More
I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and… Read More
Building A High-Impact EdTech Venture From Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 6) - Sramana Mitra
Sramana Mitra: Can you discuss pricing for this K-12 data science training program? What kind of schools? Is this part of the curriculum now? Is data science being taught at a curriculum lev… Read More
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Naganand Doraswamy, Managing Partner and Founder at Ideaspring Capital, discusses how he is thinking about investing in AI. There’s a lot of confusion around AI right now. The hype is… Read More
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During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Naganand Doraswamy, Managing Partner and Founder at Ideaspring Capital. We discussed how he is thinking about investing in AI.
The… Read More
Accurate estimation of Total Available Market (TAM) is an essential component of a high velocity startup.
I see a chronic overestimation of TAM in my work with startups.
Firs… Read More
In 2015, Elon Musk was a key founding member of the OpenAI non-profit entity. But over the course of time, due to disagreements between the rest of the team, he left OpenAI. Last summer, he… Read More
Building A High-Impact EdTech Venture From Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 5) - Sramana Mitra
Sramana Mitra: How did you engineer your go-to-market organization to sell large deals to enterprises?
Josh Jones: We sell all the way down to a company hiring a single person. In fact, i… Read More
Today’s 646th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 18, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join… Read More
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Building A High-Impact EdTech Venture From Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 4) - Sramana Mitra
Sramana Mitra: So who were these corporate customers? The corporate customers were not for this hiring interviewing tool. Then, you were selling something else besides this product, right?… Read More
Building A High-Impact EdTech Venture From Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 3) - Sramana Mitra
Sramana Mitra: Were you using third party software for these projects? What was the lay of the land in terms of tools and technologies for doing this work at that time?
Josh Jones: We… Read More
According to a recent report, the global computer graphics market is projected to grow at 9% CAGR to reach $35.1 billion by 2030. Australia-based Canva is a big player in the industry that h… Read More
Building A High-Impact EdTech Venture From Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 2) - Sramana Mitra
Sramana Mitra: Okay, so we’re doing an Entrepreneur Journey story. I need a journey. So give me timelines. When did you do what and what led to what and so on. So, you were trying to d… Read More
Building A High-Impact EdTech Venture From Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 1) - Sramana Mitra
Josh is building a Data Science training company from Alabama. It’s a very interesting model, going deep into high school level skill development in what the market needs today… Read More
I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and… Read More
Sramana Mitra: You must have seen in the media how we’ve advocated very, very seriously bootstrapped startups. As a forum, we have legitimized bootstrapped startups. So today bootstrap… Read More
I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and… Read More
Sramana Mitra: I’m asking a simpler question. Are these all B to B companies – businesses selling to hospitals or insurance companies or pharmaceutical companies?
Julien Pham:… Read More
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Ashmeet Sidana, Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital, talks about his AI investment thesis. It’s a wonderful discussion that not only entrepreneurs should listen to, but investors sho… Read More
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: Read More
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ashmeet Sidana, Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital. It’s a wonderful discussion that not only entrepreneurs should listen to… Read More
According to a market report, the use of AI in medical diagnostics is expected to grow at 25% CAGR from $0.8 billion in 2022. Chicago-based Tempus AI (Nasdaq: TEM) is a leading player in the… Read More
Sramana Mitra: So in that context, what companies have you invested in and what’s going on?
Julien Pham: Yeah. So for Fund One, we’ve invested in 15 companies so far. We&rsquo… Read More
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Sramana Mitra: Exactly, and the other thing on your empathy question, the fundamental issue around AI is that why is it even necessary for us to replace all healthcare with AI? It’s re… Read More
Sramana Mitra: So let me comment on that. I would like to double click down on some of your companies, but on the broad level, I’m very bullish about education as well. I’m extre… Read More
The rapid rise of generative AI technology has led to a growing concern around safety and security around the development of the technology. Backed by both Google and Amazon, Anthropic PBC i… Read More
Sramana Mitra: So, now let’s talk about healthcare, specifically in the US. What kinds of opportunities are you zeroing in on with these investments? I would like to actually brainstor… Read More
Julien Pham, Founder GP at 3CC | Third Culture Capital, talks about the firm’s focus on HealthTech. Julien is a physician by training. Excellent discussion!
Sramana Mitra: It’… Read More
I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and… Read More
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This report from Nasdaq looks at the highlights of IPO listings in the first half of 2024. There were 66 IPOs in the first half of the year that together raised $8.7 billion. For this week&r… Read More
Sramana Mitra: You have about a $12-$15 million company right now, is that right?
Abhinav Girdhar: I would say north of that, but i don’t have the real numbers on top of my head… Read More
Sramana Mitra: Okay, when did the Automate product come out?
Abhinav Girdhar: That was prior to Design. We launched it during the thick of Covid. Now, we’ve got three of these produ… Read More
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According to a recent report, the global robotic process automation (RPA) market is expected to grow at 40% CAGR from $2.94 billion in 2023. San Francisco-based Automation Anywhere… Read More
Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about the pricing strategy?
Abhinav Girdhar: We strategize in terms of what value we are adding to the platform. So we started as an app builder, later on we s… Read More
Sramana Mitra: Ok, so you spun it out around $1 million ARR?
Abhinav Girdhar: That’s correct.
Sramana Mitra: So now that you’re at $1M ARR, has a shakeout happened in the m… Read More
When it comes to AI, the one company that comes to everyone’s mind is OpenAI. It was founded in 2015 as a non-profit entity by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Joh… Read More
Sramana Mitra: Out of the 10,000 registrations, how many converted into paying customers?
Abhinav Girdhar: Mostly these were small customers, so people were coming in on a freemium m… Read More
Sramana Mitra: So what precisely was the gap? Is it a pricing gap, was it more expensive, or was it a support gap? What was the gap?
Abhinav Girdhar: The gap was mostly on the support sid… Read More
Abhinav has built a $15M+ ARR business by bootstrapping using services. Of his three products, one is a GenerativeAI design tool. Read on for more nuance.
Sramana Mitra: All right, A… Read More
Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur or a seasoned developer, our courses offer a clear pathway to success. They encompass everything from case studies on building ML startups to anal… Read More
This annual ranking feature from Gartner ranks the leading supply chain organizations and identifies the underlying trends that drove their performance. Schneider Electric was at the top, fo… Read More
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Sramana Mitra: Right. What else do you want to share with me?
Justin Grooms: I just want to share how excited I am for where I think commerce is going around identity. So much has changed… Read More
Sramana Mitra: Interesting. So, the customer, however, has to do the first sale for Bolt to kick in.
Justin Grooms: The customer needs to create a Bolt account somewhere in our network… Read More
I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and… Read More
According to a recent report, the global AI market is estimated to grow at 36% CAGR from $214.6 billion in 2024 to $1.339 trillion by 2030. This has accelerated the growth of companies like… Read More
Sramana Mitra: Can you talk me through the business model evolution of the business? This is probably before your time, but when the company was selling the checkout software, were they char… Read More
Sramana Mitra: So, Bolt started with a software product for online checkouts and sold it to small retailers. Small retailers came on board and used Bolt as their e-commerce checkout system… Read More
Sramana Mitra: What was the technology that were you bringing to market with Bolt? What were you looking for commercialization?
Justin Grooms: We had an initial all-in-one checkout produc… Read More
Digital signature services provider Docusign (Nasdaq: DOCU) recently announced strong quarterly results. The company is looking to expand its market reach through a focused AI-based strategy… Read More
Sramana Mitra: What did you do after you left Datron? Why did you leave Datron? To build something else? A startup?
Justin Grooms: When I was in the defense space, I had a lot of exposure… Read More
Julien Pham, Founder GP at 3CC | Third Culture Capital, talks about the firm’s focus on HealthTech. Julien is a physician by training. Excellent discussion! Read More
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: Read More
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Bolt is doing something unique in e-commerce personalization. Read on for more.
Sramana Mitra: All right, Justin, let’s start at the very beginning of your entrepreneurial jour… Read More
This feature from Bloomberg explores how the AI frenzy is wreaking havoc on the power systems. In the US, data centers are projected to use 8% of total power by 2030, up from 3% in… Read More
Sramana Mitra: So where are you now in terms of numbers? You don’t have to share anything that you don’t feel comfortable.
Sean Minter: We’re in the $10-$15 million ARR… Read More
At 1Mby1M, one of the most popular courses these days is the Artificial Intelligence segment. These courses include case studies that involve discussions on opportunities and challenges in G… Read More
I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and… Read More
I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and… Read More
Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about the next round of financing now. You went from $1 million to $4 million, and then you raised another $12 million round of financing, where were you expa… Read More
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Julien Pham, Founder GP at 3CC | Third Culture Capital. The firm focuses on HealthTech. Julien is a physician by training. Excellent… Read More
The global healthcare cloud computing market is expected to grow 18% annually to reach $320.9 billion by 2034 from $41.1 billion in 2024. The growth in the market is estimated to be dri… Read More
Sramana Mitra: So, when you raised $3.5 million, what did you determine as the place where you needed to invest? Was it people? Was it a certain go-to-market strategy where you were doing cu… Read More
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Sramana Mitra: So it took you four or five years of bootstrapped business building – building the product, getting the POCs going and so forth to get to $1 million ARR. How many POC cu… Read More
Sramana Mitra: Let’s focus on that phase. I just want to go from that zero to $1 million ARR phase. Where did the customers come from and were you building the product with customers o… Read More
Enterprise services provider Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) recently announced its first quarter results that surpassed market expectations. Due to the macro conditions, Workday reduced its subscrip… Read More
Sramana Mitra: What were the highlights of that journey? How long did you do it for? How big did it get and what happened to it?
Sean Minter: That company got to about $5 million in reven… Read More
Sean has bootstrapped AmplifAI to $1M, and then raised over $15M in two rounds of financing. Read on to learn the nuances of his strategy and execution.
Sramana Mitra: All right, Sean… Read More
This feature from Forbes covers the highlights of the Worldwide Developers Conference last week where Apple unveiled its own GenAI vision among other things. For this week’s… Read More
I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and… Read More
I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and… Read More
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 644th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, June 20, 2024, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST.
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During this week’s roundtable, we put the spotlight on a Nigerian startup.
Ruah Technologies
We had Levi Stephen from Abuja, Nigeria, pitch Ruah Technologies, a SaaS business… Read More
