September 4 – 701st 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 701st FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, September 4, 2025, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 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,

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700th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: August 28 – It Has Been Deeply Fulfilling

During this week’s roundtable, we celebrated our milestone 700th session with business as usual. It has been a deeply fulfilling journey working with entrepreneurs in a no-nonsense manner for 20 years. Data Poem First up we had Bharath Gaddam from New York, New York, pitch Data Poem. Bharat is a 1Mby1M Premium member about to

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Alex Benik, Encoded Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you some of the broader trend questions and how you’re processing all this. As we discussed earlier, the market is currently in a human-in-the-loop, highly domain-specific and domain-expertise-oriented business space. The logical next step is going to be more automation, especially as agents become more active inside applications. So how

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The Ultimate 1Mby1M Decision Guide: Confidentiality and Group Sessions

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Alex Benik, Encoded Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do a couple more of your examples of what you’ve invested in. Alex Benik: Sure. At Battery, I was an investor in a company called Packet, which was a bare metal hosting provider. It was acquired by a large data center company Equinix. The founders Zac and Jacob Smith are twin brothers

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Cybersecurity Venture with a Paycheck

Christian Geyer convinced the board of his employer to let him incubate a cybersecurity startup idea as a division of the company with an express intent of spinning it off. Now, ACTFORE has been spun out, doing almost $20M in bootstrapped annual revenue, and may soon find a lucrative exit. This is a phenomenal story

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