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AI and Tech Startup Course Coupons for February

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 18th 2026
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Founders who know how to turn AI into real products, customers, and revenue are pulling ahead. If you want to move faster and avoid costly mistakes with your startup across Generative AI, Machine Learning, FinTech, HealthTech, Cybersecurity, or automation, the smartest move is learning from proven founder playbooks, not trial and error.

To help you act now, we’re offering limited-time February discounts across our full AI course portfolio. Choose focused case studies or flagship strategy programs covering bootstrapping, VC readiness, and building AI startups from the ground up. Whether you’re an engineer or a founder, these coupons make it easy to invest in practical AI education and accelerate your startup progress starting today.

We are currently offering up to 85% off with the startup course coupons listed below.

All our tech startup course coupons expire on February 28, so take advantage of these discounts and enroll today!

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Free Course to Use the 1Mby1M AI Mentor Effectively and Coupons

Posted on Monday, Feb 9th 2026
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AI can be a powerful strategic partner for entrepreneurs, but only if you know how to engage it correctly. To help founders get maximum value from the 1Mby1M AI Mentor, we’ve launched a new free Udemy course, AI Mentoring Prompts to Develop Startup Strategy, created expressly to teach entrepreneurs how to work effectively with the 1Mby1M AI Mentor.

This course is designed for tech founders, solo entrepreneurs, bootstrappers and aspiring entrepreneurs who want to have higher-quality, more strategic conversations with the 1Mby1M AI Mentor. Whether you are preparing for investor pitches, evaluating product-market fit, or shaping long-term strategy, the course shows you how to frame clear, targeted prompts that unlock deeper insight, surface blind spots and generate more actionable guidance from the AI Mentor.

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Top Accelerators for Entrepreneurs Interested in Building Real Unicorns in Hyderabad

Posted on Saturday, Feb 7th 2026

Guest Authors Snigdha Rani Sahoo & Kaushank Nalin Khandwala

The startup ecosystem often glorifies unicorns, but many are built on unsustainable foundations of cash burn, inflated valuations, and a relentless pursuit of vanity metrics. This article, part of the Pro-Founder Series, is for founders in Hyderabad who aspire to build real unicorns: profitable, scalable, and globally impactful businesses that prioritize customer value and long-term sustainability over fleeting hype. We’ll explore accelerators in Hyderabad that support this vision, focusing on those that foster genuine growth and profitability.

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Top Accelerators for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Focus on Validation  in Hyderabad

Posted on Friday, Feb 6th 2026

Guest Authors Snigdha Rani Sahoo & Kaushank Nalin Khandwala

In the bustling startup ecosystem of Hyderabad, many founders are pressured to prioritize rapid building and early fundraising. However, without rigorous validation, these efforts often lead to wasted resources and ultimately, failure. This article identifies and highlights accelerator programs in Hyderabad that genuinely prioritize validation—testing business ideas, understanding customer needs, refining pricing strategies, and establishing clear market positioning—before encouraging founders to scale or seek funding.

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Top Non-Equity Accelerators in Hyderabad

Posted on Thursday, Feb 5th 2026

Guest Authors Snigdha Rani Sahoo & Kaushank Nalin Khandwala

This article, part of the Pro-Founder Series, delves into the landscape of non-equity accelerators in Hyderabad, India, offering a research-driven perspective for founders seeking support without relinquishing ownership. In the post-COVID era, where capital efficiency and sustainable growth are paramount, we analyze over 30 programs, filtering for those that prioritize founder-first principles, mentorship, and long-term value creation, aligning with the ethos of 1Mby1M and the insights from “The Accelerator Conundrum” by Sramana Mitra. This is not a ranking, but a guide to help bootstrapped entrepreneurs navigate the ecosystem and find the right fit for their validation-first journey.

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How Blitzscaling Can Create Zombie Startups

Posted on Wednesday, Jan 14th 2026
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Nine out of ten startups that sign up for Blitzscaling fail. They become zombie startups. They cannot raise new rounds of financing. They cannot find an Exit either. They just sit there, feeling like failures. Even if they have built $10M in profitable revenue.

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Why Hypergrowth Is Rare for Startups

Posted on Tuesday, Jan 13th 2026
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I have been running the 1Mby1M global virtual accelerator since 2010. I find myself saying to entrepreneurs ad nauseam that VCs want to invest in startups that can go from zero to $100 million in revenue in 5 to 7 years, which is hypergrowth.

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The Twilight Zone of Venture Funded Startups

Posted on Monday, Jan 12th 2026
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There is a Twilight Zone in which many venture funded startups exist. The company isn’t growing at a high velocity. No further financing is viable. No exit is viable either. What happens to such startups? And how do you avoid becoming one of these walking deads?

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AI and Tech Startup Course Coupons for January

Posted on Friday, Jan 9th 2026
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As the New Year begins, Artificial Intelligence is reshaping every industry and giving founders who act early a decisive edge. 2026 is the year to move from experimentation to execution. Entrepreneurs who understand how to build, validate and scale AI startups are best positioned to capture emerging opportunities across Generative AI, Machine Learning, FinTech, HealthTech, Cybersecurity, customer support automation and more. We provide the following AI startup course coupons to help you start the year with clarity, momentum and a proven path from idea to scalable product, grounded in real-world case studies, best practices and actionable founder frameworks.

To help you kick off the year strong, we’re offering January discount coupons across our entire AI course portfolio. You can dive into focused case-study courses in Generative AI Marketing, AI Cybersecurity, FinTech, HealthTech, Services, and Machine Learning, or choose strategic programs like How to Bootstrap an AI Startup First and Blitzscale Later, How VC Investors Think About AI Startups, and How to Build AI and Machine Learning Startups. Engineers can also explore From Developer to Entrepreneur and AI Startup Ideas. These limited-time coupons make it easier to invest in founder-focused AI education and accelerate your progress in the rapidly expanding AI economy starting now.

We are currently offering up to 85% off with the startup course coupons listed below.

All our tech startup course coupons expire on January 31, so take advantage of these discounts and enroll today!

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How to Validate a Startup Idea Before Writing Any Code

Posted on Thursday, Dec 11th 2025
Woman with digital coding overlay illustrating the process of testing a new startup idea before building.

You should not spend 5-7 years of your life on a bogus startup idea. Before you commit invaluable years of your life to an idea, before you write a line of code, you should TEST your idea. How do you do that?

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