September 12 – Rendezvous Meetup with Sramana Mitra in Menlo Park, CA

For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra in person, please join us for our weekly and informal group meetups. If you are living in the San Francisco Bay Area or are just in town for a visit, we hope you will add these meetups to your calendar and join us. Pre-registration is required,

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411th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Paroon Chadha, Passageways

Paroon Chadha is Co-founder and CEO at Passageways, a company that has been bootstrapped from Indiana to $10 million ARR and has recently raised funding. Textbook case study of our mantra: Bootstrap first, raise money later.

September 6 – 413th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 413th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, September 6, 2018, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register

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10 Seed Investors Discuss Startups in Their Portfolios via the Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum

During my many conversations with seed investors, I’ve asked everyone to talk about their current investment portfolios to help inform early-stage entrepreneurs interested in financing. Here are ten investors who generously share details on what they have invested in, the notable exits, and how they decide which startups to invest in. Mackey Craven, Partner at OpenView

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412th Roundtable Recording on August 30, 2018

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Yanai Oron of Vertex Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: That’s exactly where my question comes from. We are in 2018. There is a lot of stuff that has already been built in all different areas of technology. Right now, there are not as many billion-dollar opportunities, but there are many opportunities that are in that $200 million TAM range. In a way,

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Roundtable Recap: August 30 – Positioning is the Key to Accelerating your Venture

During this week’s roundtable, we had five pitches from different parts of the world. Thinkster First we had Raj Valli from Princeton, NJ, pitching Thinkster Math, an AI-powered online tutoring company that is already doing over $1M ARR. The company can accelerate by fine-tuning its positioning and customer acquisition strategies. Ethnic Khazana Then Altamash Jaffer

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Yipeng Zhao of Embark Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What do you think of the Series A gap? There are hundred thousand seed investments and 1,200 to 1,500 venture investments. How do you process that? Yipeng Zhao: Seed and Series A is always a hard gap. By nature of the business, you will always say most companies die after seed. I don’t think

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