Startup Latin America: Deep Dive Into Belo Horizonte’s Accelerator Ecosystem

The Accelerator Conundrum is a multipart series that challenges the prevailing wisdom of the tech startup ecosystem that entrepreneurs should Blitzscale out of the gate. Written by Sramana Mitra, the Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million (1Mby1M), the world’s first global virtual accelerator, it emphatically argues that a better strategy is to Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later, focus

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Startup Latin America: Deep Dive Into Florianópolis’ Accelerator Ecosystem

The Accelerator Conundrum is a multipart series that challenges the prevailing wisdom of the tech startup ecosystem that entrepreneurs should Blitzscale out of the gate. Written by Sramana Mitra, the Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million (1Mby1M), the world’s first global virtual accelerator, it emphatically argues that a better strategy is to Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later, focus

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Startup Latin America: Deep Dive Into Rio de Janeiro’s Accelerator Ecosystem

The Accelerator Conundrum is a multipart series that challenges the prevailing wisdom of the tech startup ecosystem that entrepreneurs should Blitzscale out of the gate. Written by Sramana Mitra, the Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million (1Mby1M), the world’s first global virtual accelerator, it emphatically argues that a better strategy is to Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later, focus

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Startup Latin America: Deep Dive Into São Paulo’s Accelerator Ecosystem

The Accelerator Conundrum is a multipart series that challenges the prevailing wisdom of the tech startup ecosystem that entrepreneurs should Blitzscale out of the gate. Written by Sramana Mitra, the Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million (1Mby1M), the world’s first global virtual accelerator, it emphatically argues that a better strategy is to Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later, focus

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Startup Latin America: Deep Dive Into Brazil’s Accelerator Ecosystem

The Accelerator Conundrum is a multipart series that challenges the prevailing wisdom of the tech startup ecosystem that entrepreneurs should Blitzscale out of the gate. Written by Sramana Mitra, the Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million (1Mby1M), the world’s first global virtual accelerator, it emphatically argues that a better strategy is to Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later, focus

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Niche E-commerce Business to $20M

Niche e-commerce still produces compelling success stories. Here is how CEO Brian Lim built iHeartRaves from our conversation in 2018. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Brian Lim: I was raised in LA County. My

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Startup Latin America: Why the 1Mby1M Global Virtual Accelerator is a Game-changer for Latin American Startup Accelerator Ecosystem

This article is an overview of a series of articles summarizing Latin American Startup Accelerator Ecosystem – their incubation and acceleration infrastructure, compare 1Mby1M to what’s available and educate Latin American solo founders on how to work with Silicon Valley from day zero. In the summer of 2007, I got a call from Pedro Ant,

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Building a Venture Scale FinTech SaaS Startup: Mike Whitmire, co-founder and CEO of FloQast (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Now, if you lift yourself a little bit on the product philosophy level, what are you seeing right now? Is it human-in-the-loop? Is it real agent-to-AI automation? What is your product roadmap philosophy, and what are you seeing in the market in terms of what is acceptable for customers?