2025 Resolution: Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck and 1Mby1M

We are in 2025.

Hundreds of thousands of tech businesses have already been built successfully.

Let’s learn from those who have come before us.

Girish Navani started eClinicalWorks, a healthcare IT venture by bootstrapping with a paycheck. Girish scaled to over $500M in revenue.

Since 2006, I have spent thousands of hours interviewing successful entrepreneurs. Listening. Asking questions. Understanding. Extrapolating. Learning about their mistakes. Capturing their lessons from the trenches.

I encapsulated their anecdotal knowledge into Methodology.

I have been running One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) since 2010. Our unwavering mission has been to democratize entrepreneurship education, incubation and acceleration.

What is Core Startup Methodology?

Bootstrapping. Positioning. Market Sizing. Customer Validation. Customer Acquisition. Financing. Team Building.

We have to learn Domain Specific nuances. We call them Electives.

Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning. Cloud Computing. E-Commerce. Digital Health. EdTech. FinTech. PropTech. And more. It depends on where your specific interest, expertise and unfair advantage lies.

There is no good reason to quit your job. Not yet. Work on this learning WITH a paycheck. It’s a risk-mitigated, pragmatic strategy.

If entrepreneurship is in your dreams, let’s prepare you for it.

Spend time with successful entrepreneurship case studies through the 1Mby1M Curriculum.

You can join 1Mby1M Basic, and everyday, spend a couple of hours with a successful entrepreneur. Listening to one or two of my in-depth interviews.

It’s like having coffee with two experienced entrepreneurs who explain how to put one foot before the other.

Education and Inspiration will flow effortlessly.

You will save a lot of time by avoiding common mistakes.

Try it. Let me know how it goes.

If you think you need help, consider a free online mentoring session with me.

You can also jump into a full-year Acceleration by joining the 1Mby1M Premium program with me.

Or, start with our curriculum-only 1Mby1M Basic option.

This segment is a part in the series : 2025 Resolution