Sasha Mirchandani has a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Strayer University, and did his Management Development Programme from IIM Ahmedabad.

As the ecosystem started maturing, quick-moving seed funds was an opportunity that I made sense out of.

Siddhartha Ahluwalia, Co-founder of SHEROES, caught up with Sasha Mirchandani in this episode of 100x Entrepreneur podcast, a series featuring venture capitalists and angel investors.

Tune in to listen to Sasha Mirchandani in conversation with Siddhartha:What makes a successful founder?

“Part of our due diligence is to understand how much the founders understand each other and more importantly, respect each other. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574901006.7255054/It-is-inexcusable-to-have-founders-who-cannot-get-along-run-a-company,-says-Sasha-Mirchandani-of-Kae-Capital?ref=audio_experience

But a lot of sales this weekend have products that make great Black Friday business deals perfect for the small business looking to upgrade some technology or try a new product or service.

We’ve put together a list of some of the best Black Friday business deals we could find.

Be on the lookout for other great Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday and Cyber Week deals that could benefit your small business, too!

Black Friday Business DealsIf you’re headed out to the stores to join the Black Friday shopping madness or plan on curling up with a warm beverage and shopping for great deals online, check out these special offers we think are the best Black Friday business deals for your company.

Amazon Black Friday DealsAmazon’s running special Black Friday deals already. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574899211.3848927/Black-Friday-Business-Deals-You-Can’t-Miss?ref=audio_experience

Blockchain folks love to exude, expulse, and expectorate jargon, but what this means is that S4 will apply its crop monitoring technology to Food Trust’s network.

The goal is to reduce food waste in Latin America through more effective monitoring and data.

“Blockchain technology has the potential to transform any industry, especially in sectors with multiple environments, companies, and organizations, such as in the food supply chain,” said Martin Hagelstrom, Blockchain executive for IBM Latin America.

From the food chain to the blockchainIn the long run, the use of blockchain should bring increased transparency and reliability to the food industry.

Furthermore, S4’s agreement with Food Trust will allow it to decisively share information regarding food products with supply chain actors. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574897410.907653/Argentine-agrotech-S4-collaborates-with-IBM-to-get-food-on-the-blockchain?ref=audio_experience

Contxto – The Innóvate Perú Summit closed on a very positive note last Friday.

It called for its 8th generation (8G) of entrepreneurs to participate in the Startup Perú contest.

For anyone seeking to validate a business model they have in the works, Startup Perú may grant up to PEN$50,000 (almost US$15,000) in the category of Innovative Entrepreneurs.

Or, as an established startup, it may be eligible for the Dynamic Entrepreneurs category.

As a government-funded project, no doubt Startup Perú provides an invaluable lifeline for these budding businesses. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574895615.6034722/Startup-Perú-begins-hunt-for-8th-generation-innovators?ref=audio_experience

The company last year raised a $10 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, after having sold life insurance coverage to thousands of families.

The idea, the company explained at the time, was to offer today’s busy parents a better alternative to meetings with agents to discuss complicated life insurance products.

Using the Fabric app, parents can take advantage of any of its offerings, including the option to apply for life insurance from the phone and get immediate approval.

The app, which we put through its paces (but didn’t purchase life insurance through), is very easy to use.

Naturally, this includes the life insurance application, as this is where Fabric’s revenue lies. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574893834.8962183/Fabric’s-new-app-helps-parents-with-the-hard-stuff,-including-wills,-life-insurance-&-shared-finances-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience

ZNL Ventures, an early-stage "India First" focussed fund based in Silicon Valley, has just announced a new fund.

With a Silicon Valley experience deep-rooted in Indian culture, it plans to bring in success for early-stage startups.

YourStory: You have garnered interest with Y Combinator and 500 Startups and you are the only Indian fund to invest with 14 Y Combinator startups.

SR: We have a great understanding of India-US corridor and we are well-networked in the Silicon Valley and India based investor ecosystem.

In these cases, ZNL ventures becomes a systematic vehicle with all the backend support and legal support/process for Indian investors to participate in these opportunities. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574892017.9899707/Silicon-Valley-based-ZNL-Ventures-launches-new-angel-fund-worth-$3M?ref=audio_experience

Recently, this Chilean governmental entity paired-up with ERA Global to provide soft landing support to Latin American startups seeking international growth.

ERA Global stands on the other side of the partnership.

On a more institutional level, it also partners with various global government initiatives, like CORFO.

Together, ERA Global and CORFO will launch a program as part of the Chilean government’s inconveniently militaristic-sounding “Consolidate and Expand” efforts.

Latin American companies that have gone through the programming ERA Global has to offer reportedly raised more than US$350 million. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574890209.0853093/Chile’s-CORFO-and-ERA-Global-to-launch-soft-landing-for-ambitious-startups?ref=audio_experience

Prevailing wisdom states that as an enterprise SaaS company evolves, there’s a tendency to sacrifice profitability for growth — understandably so, especially in the early days of the company.

Box CEO Aaron Levie says the goal moving forward is to find better balance between growth and profitability.

“As we shared in October [at BoxWorks], we are focused on driving a balance of long-term growth and improved profitability as measured by the combination of revenue growth plus free cash flow margin.

While many struggle to understand the company’s business model, it provides content management in the cloud and modernizing that aspect of enterprise software.

As a result, there are few pure-play content management vendors that can do what Box does in a cloud context. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574888408.8823256/Box-looks-to-balance-growth-and-profitability-as-it-matures-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience

Start the green card process for Indian and Chinese employees right away.

Although I am an ardent feminist, the truth is that under our current immigration laws and policy, a good faith marriage offers the fastest route to a green card.

I often inform our clients of this path, as well as all other employment-based green card options.

Spouses of U.S. citizens are exempt from green card quotas, so there’s no backlog for any particular country.

Filing for a marriage-based green card is typically quicker and less costly than sponsoring an employment-based green card (provided the marriage is genuine). | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574886608.2407842/9-Hacks-to-Make-Hiring-Immigrants-Easier:-Part-Two?ref=audio_experience

A digital strategy is meant to bridge that gap, offering a plan of attack for charity leaders to build stronger organizations.

Where digital strategy uses technology as a point solution or within a silo, digital transformation redesigns your entire organization to integrate digital tools and processes throughout.

“We know that 70 percent of digital transformation efforts fail.

“We know that 70 percent of digital transformation efforts fail,” said Glogovac.

It’s because of culture.”Glogovac explained many of the core reasons digital transformation efforts fail, noting it’s rarely because of tech. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574884806.7792573/Digital-For-Good-Summit-gets-real-about-the-need-for-charities-to-adopt-transformation?ref=audio_experience