Startup Africa: Namibia’s Startup Accelerator Ecosystem – A Deep Dive

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 Africa: South Africa’s Startup Accelerator Ecosystem – A Deep Dive

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 Africa: Southern Africa’s Startup Accelerator Ecosystem – An Overview

The Accelerator Conundrumis 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 on

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Building a Venture Scale FinTech SaaS Startup: Mike Whitmire, co-founder and CEO of FloQast (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So, when you started going after companies that looked like Cornerstone, were you doing that as a bootstrap company or a venture-funded company? Mike Whitmire: We had taken a small seed round of funding. We raised $1.3 million at the time to build out the first iteration of the product and prove we

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped an EdTech Venture to $6M

Prepory CEO Daniel Santos’ story is a great example of an EdTech company that has built a validated, bootstrapped, profitable business that can potentially be scaled using AI. Sramana Mitra: Alright, Daniel, let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised? What kind of background? Daniel

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An Overview of Startup Accelerators in the Greater New York Region

This article is an overview of a series of articles summarizing the top Startup Accelerators in the Greater New York region, comparing 1Mby1M across ten key dimensions—from validation to bootstrapping, solo founders to long-term mentoring.  Guest Author Armaan Kapur | Reviewed by Sramana Mitra Over a series of ten posts, inspired by The Accelerator Conundrum Series, I’ve gone deep

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Startup Africa: Algeria’s Startup Accelerator Ecosystem – A Deep Dive

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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Building a Venture Scale FinTech SaaS Startup: Mike Whitmire, co-founder and CEO of FloQast (Part 1)

Mike has raised over $300M and built an over $250M ARR FinTech SaaS business. Now, AI offers FloQast an opportunity to further strengthen their product roadmap with deep domain knowledge.