Sramana: That aligns exactly with the 1M/1M philosophy. That is what we want people to do – get to customers and revenues as quickly as possible. Our belief is that entrepreneurship equals customers, revenues and profits. Financing is optional. Colin Day: We were forced to go that route. If I had not received that call,
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 158th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, January 24, 2013, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others
Sramana Mitra: I would like to talk about a use case that illustrates how customers deploy your big data capabilities. Martin Smith: I can give you a very good example of one of our clients in the retail space. We do a lot of work with Oreck. Oreck has retail, they have multi-channel, and they
Congratulations to the 12 winners of the 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013! They have each been awarded a one-year scholarship to the 1M/1M program. We are looking forward to working with all of you. –RidesApp, Shai Spetgang (Israel) –SITSecure, Purushartha Saini (Mumbai, India) –enMarkit Technologies, Vipin Agarwal (Gurgaon, India) –Penworks, Vrushali Humnabadkar (Pune, India) – 138 –Skillsume, Shashank Shekhar (Erie,
Just because you have been rejected by VCs doesn’t mean you cannot build a great business. Marc Benioff was rejected by pretty much ALL the VCs he approached. Didn’t stop him from building Salesforce.com into a multi billion dollar enterprise with global impact.
Sramana: It’s funny you mention the need for funding. At 1M/1M we are strictly against that point of view. Ideas don’t get funded. You were operating at a time and in a situation where things clicked, but most of the time you need to turn an idea into a business and the business gets funded.
The second final ofthe 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013 was held today during our 157th roundtable. The contest was judged by two successful 1M/1M premium members. Each has been in the program for two years and has traveled the zero to $1M journey and beyond, successfully. Vikrant Mathur, CEO of ifood.tv, runs a profitable multi-channel video
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of the 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013 Finals II here: