People Or Market - Which Takes Priority For An Investor?
Sramana Mitra
Founder and CEO of One Million by the One Million (1Mby1M) Global Virtual Accelerator
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Jon Staenberg, Managing Partner at Staenberg Venture Partners, and a Seed Investor in over 300 ventures over the last 30 years. Jon drew from his long background and discussed some of what interests him to invest in a startup. He also reflected on the question People or Market: Which takes priority?
You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:
SmartServ
First, Arnav Anand from San Franciso and Pune, India, pitched SmartServ, a mobile SaaS app for managing field technical services SMBs. The company is at about a $180k revenue run rate. Nice execution so far.
Masala Mania
Then Vivek Chhibba from London, UK, pitched Masala Mania, a print-on-demand greeting card concept for the UK market focused on South Asians. It’s a small, niche opportunity, ideal for building a bootstrapped business.
POSable Technologies
Next, Jarryon Paul from Trinidad and Tobago, pitched POSable Technologies, selling solutions for POS systems and workflow for local retailers and restaurants. We discussed his go-to-market strategy.
As always, I would very much like to hear about your business, so let me invite you to come and pitch at one of our free 1M/1M public roundtables. We will be holding future roundtables at 8 a.m. PDT on:
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