April 3 – 679th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 679th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, April 3, 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, 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

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678th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: March 27 – The Realities of Pre-Seed Funding

During this week’s roundtable, we had extensive discussions about the realities of pre-seed funding. If you’re in the market for such investment, please review.

Tesser Payments

As for the entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Geetha Panchapakesan from Mountain View, California pitch Tesser Payments, a concept-stage FinTech venture.

Water Current Power

Then we had Michael O’Malley from New Bedford, Massachusetts pitch a hydro-energy idea.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Video FAQs

Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Okay. Now I’m going to ask you about the delivery side. So you and your friend Chandra started the business. How did you grow the implementation team?

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped an Employee Engagement Platform

I am always thrilled to do stories of pioneering entrepreneurs building technology startups in remote locations. Vantage Circle Co-founder and CTO Anjan Pathak brought us into the nascent scene in Guwahati, in the northeast Indian state of Assam, when we spoke in 2023.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have?

Anjan Pathak: I was born in a small town in North East India. It’s about 50 kilometers from Guwahati. I spent my childhood there. I studied in a very small school.

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678th 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting in 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 678th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, March 27, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 4 p.m. CET / 8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: If you quantify what was happening in these accounts, you were landing the accounts with your ERP channel and partnership management expertise and then growing those accounts. So, when you landed those accounts, what were the deal sizes and what kind of deal sizes were you able to expand these accounts to?