Thursday, December 7 – 626th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 626th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, December 7, 2023, 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, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and REGISTER TO PITCH OR ATTEND HERE. Register and you will receive the recording by email, even if you are unable to attend. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to Over $100M

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

Online mattress is one of the hottest e-commerce category these days, and here is yet another one delivering venture-scale growth without venture capital. Tuft & Needle Co-founder JT Marino shared his story with me in 2017.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

JT Marino: I was born in Phoenix, but I grew up in Pennsylvania. I went to Penn State. That’s where I met my co-founder, Daehee Park. From there, my career took me to Silicon Valley working for several startups. That’s where my co-founder and I stuck together. We were at a company at Palo Alto and we decided that we wanted to build something of our own. Based on our previous experience with startups, we wanted to do it a different way.

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Cloud Stocks: Nutanix Expands Security Offerings

Enterprise cloud computing player Nutanix (Nasdaq: NTNX) recently announced its first quarter results that outpaced market expectations. The outlook for the rest of the year was impressive as well, which helped drive the stock upwards in the after-hours trading session.

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Man and Superman: India’s Prospects in the Age of AI (Part 9)

And that brings me to the role of policy in general, and to AI policy in particular.

The problem the West is trying to get its arms around right now is how to design AI policy that doesn’t hinder the development of benevolent AI but does check the proliferation of destructive AI.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $30M from Florida

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

SproutLoud CEO Jared Shusterman shared his wonderful bootstrapping story with me in 2017.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Jared Shusterman: I was born in Miami, Florida. I’m one of the few South Florida natives. I grew up in a middle class family that had a very heavy focus on education. After I graduated high school, I went to the University of Virginia. I got a Bachelors degree with a concentration in Finance and Marketing. Shortly after that, I moved out to San Francisco and worked for an investment bank in the online media practice. That’s the quick summary of my initial upbringing.

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Man and Superman: India’s Prospects in the Age of AI (Part 8)

Next, we’re going to have to deal with a subject that threatens India’s otherwise bright prospects in the 21st century: climate change.

You are all acutely aware of the intense heat India is experiencing.

There are also acute water problems on the horizon. The Gangotri glacier is melting. 

Catching Up On Readings: Public Cloud 2024

This report from Gartner forecasts that worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will grow 20.4% to total $678.8 billion in 2024, up from $563.6 billion in 2023 driven by GenAI adoption. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Man and Superman: India’s Prospects in the Age of AI (Part 7)

And this is my conclusion about AI-generated Art, Music, Poetry and Literature. AI can do something mechanically. Human beings experience the same creative process as a spiritual endeavor, something that AI cannot take away.