Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 28, 2023

To recap the year, here are some of 2023’s biggest themes for Version One: 1) Building in AI While still early in the AI wave, we’re seeing not only technological innovation but also business model transformation. 2) Building in India Back in May, Boris took V1’s first trip to India and wrote about his reflections.

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Technical Review India Canada Early Stage 73

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

India has always been renowned as the land of entrepreneurs. After England, it was India which was described by many as the “nation of shopkeepers”. And this has been the way of life here in India. And with the technology available these days, it is convenient to invest in emerging startups. Education tech.

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Technical Review Due Diligence India Startup 146

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2017

Health insurance has seen quite a few events in India. According to a study conducted by Neilson India jointly with a leading insurer concluded that more than 70% of the population feels health insurance to be a more important subject than life insurance. That too points to the changes this industry will be poised for in short term.

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India Balance Sheet Technical Review Differentiation 100

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

1M/1M will be working with Microsoft in helping entrepreneurs prepare for these grants. I will be traveling in India in April, and doing live roundtables in three cities: Chennai (April 9) , Mumbai (April 16) , and Pune (April 17). I will be reporting back on the companies we see on this column from the road. 3gSimplified.

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India Guerilla Entrepreneur New Zealand 119

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Narayana Murthy pulled a Michael Dell when he called time on his two-year-long retired life and retook charge at Infosys, the Indian information technology (IT) giant he had founded three decades ago in a small apartment with six others. Infosys would now be a technology solutions provider. The birth of India’s outsourcing stigma.

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India Technical Review Management Cloud 165

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. From my consulting with entrepreneurs in Europe and other countries, I’m convinced that we all could benefit from adapting to meet their environments.

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Silicon Valley Indonesia Venture Capital Global 312

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- From personal experience. I realized that this was an opportunity to solve a huge problem for an entire generation of parents and their kids using technology. Thanks to Jen Ohlson, Interactive Health Technologies ! #5-

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review SEO 145

ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2022

Accordingly, the Chemical and pharmaceutical industries are also growing business With Technology. Changes have occurred in most businesses, from children’s education to corporate meetings that involve digital technologies for interactivity. Further, many start-ups have been stimulated by fresh concepts and technologies.

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Germany San Jose Technical Review India 175

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

17- India is quite an interesting name. The business idea to do technology-driven customized and personalized trips for travelers coming to India was born sometime in 2009 just before I had to go to study and do my MBA. Something aspirational and something that rang true for almost anybody traveling to India.

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Naming India Chicago Entrepreneur 152

Hearpreneur

JULY 24, 2020

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright and the number of entrepreneurs will increase but others argue these changes are meant to work against budding or would-be entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Security Demand 136

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Being an entrepreneur or business owner has its share of ups and downs. While the downs can be pretty low the ups always seem to triumph for a true entrepreneur at heart. Milestones are what entrepreneurs and business owners work towards. Running an eCom business in India, a developing nation is a bumpy ride.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Africa Revenue 146

Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- To do it for myself. 2- To help entrepreneurs become financially independent. We noticed a clear need for an evolution of wallet styles and technologies and ran with it. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Acquisition Software Review 143

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

We have done almost 90 roundtables so far and, based on this extensive experience of learning directly from entrepreneurs about their core issues, 1M/1M has just launched a new assessment tool for entrepreneurs. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India.

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Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

The hosts were Girish Joshi of Microsoft India and 1M/1M Ambassadors, Praveen Karoshi, Rajesh Nair and Thejas Gupta. As for the presenters, first up, Abinash Karana from Bangalore, India, presented Bizosys and his product 10screens , a specification capture technology for software development workflows. Photo by 7rains.

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India Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Affiliate 115

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

During today's roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support.

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India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

Amongst all the hustle, several women entrepreneurs have made their mark in the business industry. Another reason that makes it difficult for women to gather adequate funds is more than 89% of investors are male in the Venture Capital World, who often overlook women entrepreneurs. Making Balance Between Personal and Professional Life.

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Technical Review Founder United States Cofounder 113

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

It is particularly satisfying for me to work with these entrepreneurs because I have long believed that India needs to diversify out of pure labor arbitrage. Other discussions on India's need for product companies have also been equally controversial. Meanwhile, outsourcing itself is absolutely booming.

Entrepreneur 118

Entrepreneur India Technical Review Los Angeles 118

ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

At the final roundtable, we worked with just two entrepreneurs and then spent the rest of the time on Q&A, which in itself was interesting. First up, Satya Choppadhandi from Bangalore, India, presented Evolutech Networks, a company that manufactures wireless energy monitoring devices for the smart home. Discuss.

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Costa Rica Incubator Silicon Valley India 115

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2020

Similar reports came from India as well. As an entrepreneur and technology enthusiast, he has enabled field sales and service-focused organizations to effectively manage their entire sales & service network with visibility, transparency, and efficiency.

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Leadership Technical Review Java Software Review 189

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session: Dublin, Ireland, and Kolkata, India. Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world.

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Silicon Valley Ireland India Entrepreneur 124

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

I spoke with Steve about innovation in the movie industry, and to Venk about his journey from bureaucrat in India to entrepreneur here in the U.S., and his work helping other Indian entrepreneurs through TiE, the Indus Entrepreneur network. 3D technology in theaters and at home. I didn’t want to come to the U.S.

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Channel India Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts. Not, ‘what's the technology?’

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Lean Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 245

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. In fact, I was pleased to even see an entrepreneur from Kolkata, India, the city in which I was born and raised. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. Estate Lister. ServiceSutra.

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Brazil India Entrepreneur 115

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The product has won a national award from the president of India for its empowerment of people with disabilities.

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

We held a workshop of stakeholders and explored names inspired by a variety of approaches (provenance, roots of our technology, etc). Freeze drying is an incredible technology that leaves fruits nutritionally as intact as when they were ripe. I am originally from India but have been away from the country for almost 16 years.

Naming 105

Naming Artificial Inteligence Kansas Entrepreneur 105

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Asia – especially in countries such as India, China, Vietnam – is fast becoming the place where many entrepreneurs, whether locally born or lured back from Silicon Valley, are setting up shop. Finally, Fannin offers strategies for success for the aspiring (or current) entrepreneur.

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Asia Technical Review Vietnam Singapore 167

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. core competency entrepreneur near shoring offshoring outsource startup'

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Software Review Offshore 238

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Technology level. Protect your intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 222

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

An entrepreneur should pick this one up ASAP. Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. This is an open opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a custom solution. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India.

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Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth 117

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2020

Being an entrepreneur is a state of mind, way of living. An entrepreneur must be realistic, even if creativity is beneficial for society, he must find a good strategy to adopt. As an entrepreneur, choose action rather than reaction. Some entrepreneurs strategically manage their business without even realizing it.

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Technical Review India Leadership Employee 103

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

Regardless, nobody denies its truth when it comes to the change technology brings to our world. And despite technology being available to make even the most polluted water potable, more than 800 million people globally don’t have access to clean drinking water. Collectively we are creating a world of technological abundance.

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Bangladesh Silicon Valley Global India 133

Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – Personal Quest. I’m originally from New Delhi, India and have lived in the US for 10+ years now. My professional experience is in the area of delivering technology solutions for major movie studios. Image Credit: Serena Pau.

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Entrepreneur Hungary Software Review Cofounder 102

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Web technologies and software expedite the process of development. There are tax breaks for investors and they’ve also opened visas for entrepreneurs coming from overseas. Thailand is also very close to other countries with vibrant startup culture such as India and China, providing access to an unimaginable amount of resources.

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San Diego Thailand Technical Review New York City 237

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Over the years, we've had entrepreneurs from all over the world attend and pitch, and I'm delighted to see that we're propagating the methodology and the platform far and wide. With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. ResortHunt.

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Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I know that many, many entrepreneurs are feeling dejected because of investor rejections. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. Statisco Economic Analytics. Discuss.

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North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Need for a better renovation. Companies invest heavily in their technology at the expense of their employees. In 2008, I became an entrepreneur. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. Photo Credit: Dan Meyer. Penney Esq.,

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Entrepreneur LLC San Francisco Mexico 117