1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Mohanjit Jolly, Partner at Iron Pillar (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Unfortunately, the media has framed entrepreneurship as financing. Entrepreneurship is customers, revenues, and profits. Financing is optional. Exit is optional. The media has completely confused entrepreneurs with this financing-centric narrative.

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November 20 – 709th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 709th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, November 20, 2025, at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 5 p.m. CET / 9:30 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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708th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Yanev Suissa, SineWave Ventures

Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures, discusses changes in Venture Capital and his firm’s investment thesis.

708th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: November 13 – AI Investment Thesis with Yanev Suissa, SineWave Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures, discuss changes in Venture Capital and his firm’s investment thesis. Synch Cycle As for our entrepreneur pitches, first we had Ravikumar K. from Atlanta, Georgia, pitch SynchCycle, a FemTech idea. Lumiera Next, we had Maryam Lopes from Ithaca, New York,

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Mohanjit Jolly, Partner at Iron Pillar (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You probably know this. In 1 Million by 1 Million, we have taken a different approach than the typical venture capital mantra of “blitzscale out of the gate, go big or go home.” We don’t believe in any of that. We do “bootstrap first, raise money later,” and that has produced a lot

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Top Virtual Accelerators in Mumbai

This article summarizes the top virtual accelerators in Mumbai, comparing them to 1Mby1M across key dimensions. By Guest Author Kaushank Nalin Khandwala | Reviewed by Sramana Mitra The Rise of Virtual-First Founders: Why Virtual Matters, Especially in Mumbai Remote work is here to stay. So why haven’t most accelerators adapted?

Canada’s Startup Accelerator Ecosystem: A Nation of Distributed Innovation

This article is an overview of a series of articles summarizing Canada’s Startup Accelerator Ecosystem – their incubation and acceleration infrastructure, comparing 1Mby1M to what’s available and educating Canadian founders on how to work with Silicon Valley from day zero.  Canada’s startup ecosystem is among the most geographically distributed and intellectually diverse in the world.

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