Udemy Courses Based on 1Mby1M Methodology

Over the years, we have developed a proven methodology for building tech startups. We recently started packaging the 1Mby1M methodology into short courses on Udemy. The courses are very reasonably priced. In addition, Udemy offers them at deep discounts from time to time. This is an extension of our strategy to democratize entrepreneurship education at

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tim Guleri, Managing Director at Sierra Ventures 2021 (Part 5)

Tim Guleri: Point number one is that it would be hard. It takes too much capital. The second is data. For AI to succeed in any domain whether you are building a horizontal platform or bespoke AI for a particular application set, you have a lot of data to train these models. Data tends to

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Best of Bootstrapping: A View into Pre-Seed Funding with Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital

If you have been bootstrapping and think you are ready for investors, you need to learn how investors think. First, please study our free Bootstrapping course and Investor Introductions page. Then start looking for entrepreneur – investor fit. Today I introduce you to Gaurav Jain. Gaurav Jain is Managing Partner at Afore Capital, a firm focused on pre-seed investments.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Brad Cheedle, CEO of Otava (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Brad talks extensively about open problems within the cloud infrastructure (IaaS) industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Otava.

Catching Up On Readings: State of Healthcare Q1’21

This report from CB Insights covers the global healthcare investment trends in key verticals, top deals, and active investors in the sector. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tim Guleri, Managing Director at Sierra Ventures 2021 (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I was thinking about some of the work that we are doing right now around PaaS which is also a distribution innovation. One of the reasons why Salesforce has been successful as it has been is because it managed to do SaaS products but they also did this PaaS strategy early on. They

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tim Guleri, Managing Director at Sierra Ventures 2021 (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do a few case studies. You have developed a very informed perspective on this. Walk us through a couple of examples of what they came to you with and what you saw. What was the business model or distribution model that made them successful? Tim Guleri: The easiest example to give you

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Laurel Touby, Managing Director at Supernode Ventures 2021 (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: One of the big successes of Latin America is Mercado Libre. They were my clients when I was consulting many years ago. I have known them for a long time. That company was a team from Stanford, so they knew how to raise venture capital. In the early stages, Mercado Libre was rather

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