Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship With Janet Kosloff

During this week’s roundtable, our guest was Janet Kosloff, Co-Founder and CEO, InCrowd. Janet has bootstrapped her company, then raised about $2.5 million in funding and will hit $10 million in revenue in 2016. She shared insights from her journey.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

Nobeah

As for the pitches, first up was Andy Williams from Nairobi, Kenya, pitching Nobeah, a marketplace for African entrepreneurs to connect with VCs, angels, impact investors, etc. It feels like a social good type of agenda, which is not always consistent with investor returns, so the core focus of the marketplace needs to be defined more precisely.

Saadh

Then, Manisha Kad from Pune, India, pitched Saadh. Manisha’s core competency is embedded system software development, especially in the domain of sensors. She needs to focus her service business in that domain very precisely, and learn the methodology of how to build a business.

HatchMe

Next, Kevin Cherian from Bangalore, India, pitched HatchMe, yet another marketplace idea for connecting startups with investors. Kevin also wants to use AI and Big Data to offer market analysis to startups. I don’t think this is a viable idea.

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. PST on:

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