Catching Up On Readings: Chip Wars

This feature from The Wall Street Journal covers in detail how chips have become the new oil and how the two superpowers are racing for dominance in the industry and artificial intelligence. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Thursday, January 19 – 598th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 598th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, January 19, 2023, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sergey Jakimov, Co-Founder and Partner at LongeVC (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: There is the opportunity for gene editing before a baby is born. Then there is the opportunity for gene editing later in life. Sergey Jakimov: There is a huge ethical component. If you leave that aside, what makes total sense is identifying potential life-threatening diseases or disabilities with DNA-driven factors for unborn babies

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Best of Bootstrapping: Serial Entrepreneur Bootstrapped Two Startups to Enormous Revenue

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Oversee.net Founder and Manage.com Co-founder Fred Hsu bootstrapped two companies with huge amounts of revenue. The first, he sold to a private equity firm. The second was acquired by Criteo in 2018. We spoke in 2015, amazing story! Sramana Mitra:

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sergey Jakimov, Co-Founder and Partner at LongeVC (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Are you looking for something in this DNA testing and sequencing area that you haven’t found yet? Sergey Jakimov: I would be looking for a merge between DNA sequencing capacity and actionable insights based on that. I would be looking at the comprehensive model where the company offers you DNA sequencing and a

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped an Evergreen Business from Oregon

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. There is a trend among entrepreneurs wanting to keep running companies without seeking an exit. Kristin Quinlan, CEO of Certified Languages International (CLI), told us about one such evergreen company in 2015. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sergey Jakimov, Co-Founder and Partner at LongeVC (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s switch gears to another category. Pick another category where there is a heavy computer science element. Sergey Jakimov: Another interesting one is digital health. If we’re talking longevity, it’s of course aging clocks and all sorts of consumer-facing risk calculators. That’s another very interesting angle of how we taught algorithms to work

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Highly Profitable Company in Social Media Marketing

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. When we spoke in 2015, Founder Jamie Tedford had bootstrapped Brand Networks to a highly profitable, large business, leveraging the disruption in brand marketing caused by social media. Excellent execution! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your

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