Entrepreneurs are invited to the 706th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 30, 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,
Mohanjit Jolly, Partner at Iron Pillar, discusses his firm’s growth stage investment thesis.
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:
During this week’s roundtable, we had Mohanjit Jolly, Partner at Iron Pillar Fund, discussing his firm’s growth stage investment thesis. You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:
Sramana Mitra: So, tell me exactly what happened. What did you have in the product when customers started asking, “How much”? David Villalon: The main problem we had was that we’d built an engine we could personally make do anything. We could customize it for any customer, but that approach didn’t scale.
Today’s 705th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, October 23, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup All are welcome!
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