Catching Up On Readings: State of LLM Developers

This research report from CB Insights explores the key trends in the large language model (LLM) developer landscape including top developers, funding, unicorns, and active investors. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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July 20 – Brainstorming on Eastern India Startup Development Roundtable

During this special program, we will be Brainstorming on Eastern India Startup Development Strategy. If you would like to share your thoughts for a few minutes during this program, please Register Here. We will share ideas and hope to accommodate a variety of perspectives. Be sure to read my series of blogs beforehand: Startup Ecosystem

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1Mby1M Udemy Courses with Sramana Mitra: Bootstrapping

Over the course of two years, we have released over 70 courses on Udemy with the aim to democratize entrepreneurship education at scale globally. This series of posts aims to help you find the one you need easily and provide you with discount coupons.

611th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Through Massive Challenges to $15M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  When you run a business over a long period of time, technology changes create massive challenges. When we spoke in 2016, CEO David Braun had navigated TemplateMonster through several of these. In 2019, David became a Member of Parliament in the Ukraine. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the

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Roundtable Recap: July 13 – Fail Fast, Try Again

During this week’s roundtable, we had two discussions with startups in the early stages. InfiNET First up, we had Ean Mikale from Colorado Springs, Colorado, pitch InfiNET, a Quantum hosting service. My guidance was to adjust the positioning. Anaitik Next, we had Hritik Sharma from Chandigarh, India, pitch Anaitik, a fast turnaround custom T-shirt e-commerce

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Niche E-Commerce Business to $54M and Exit

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Dara Greaney bootstrapped BuyAutoParts to $54 million in profitable revenue and sold the company to private equity. Yet another story of success in the niche e-commerce domain. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born,

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611th Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 611th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 13, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. MEETING NUMBER: 2552 149 0830 PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!