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How Startups Overcome the Capital Gap

Harvard Business Review

You can go to an incubator and potentially try to convince them to write a $15-$25K check to get your idea off the ground. However, the best incubators also look for large, venture fundable business opportunities. In the fall of 2007, I met Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho. Certainly not VCs.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Ganguly, CEO of DimDim, suggested that we organized “virtual book readings” over their platform. Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.