Startup Nepal: Comparing Local Accelerators with 1Mby1M

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 on

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Startup Nepal: Why Nepal Needs a Bootstrap First Philosophy in its Accelerators

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 on

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Building an AI EdTech Company: College Guidance Network CEO Jon Carson (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So, in terms of your chronology, what came in what order? You were doing the recordings—these webinars were a key first step.

Startup Pakistan: Comparing Local Accelerators with 1Mby1M

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 on

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Startup Pakistan: Rethinking Startup Acceleration with a Bootstrap First Philosophy

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 on

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India’s Startup 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 on

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped an EdTech Startup to Over $5M

LanguageBird CEO Karyn Koven has built a technology-enabled business that is already over $5M in revenue and sits at the cusp of a tremendous scaling opportunity by leveraging AI. If you are mulling AI startup ideas, this kind of tech-enabled service that is fully optimized with AI could create tremendous value. Sramana Mitra: All right,

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Building an AI EdTech Company: College Guidance Network CEO Jon Carson (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So let’s double-click down on that. I’m not going to go into all the previous projects because it’s going to take time. You want to focus on the current one. Let’s start with the AI part of that. What is the AI part of what you’re doing in the current project?