July 27 – 613th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable Spotlighting Women Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 613th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 27, 2023, at 8:30 p.m. India IST/ 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST.

During this special roundtable, women entrepreneurs will have first priority to Pitch. 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!

Featured Videos

612th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording: Brainstorming on Eastern India Startup Development

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

Colors: October 4

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – October 4

October 4 | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Brush Pen | 8  x 8, On Paper

Video FAQs

Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship from the Czech Republic: Runecast CEO Stan Markov (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about the VMWare Marketplace. How many VMWare admins are on the marketplace?

Stan Markov: It’s not the biggest source of leads. If I compare it to the AWS Marketplace or the Azure marketplace, VMWare Marketplace is not as popular. It’s one of the ways to get to either VMWare or third-party products.

Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship from the Czech Republic: Runecast CEO Stan Markov (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: They invested because the five of you had deep domain knowledge. This is a very desirable team.

Stan Markov: In addition to that, we had all the certificates. I was the first one in the entire IBM to get the highest VMWare certificate – VMWare Certified Design Expert. Only around 300 in the world have it.

Colors: October 3

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – October 3

October 3 | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Brush Pen | 8  x 8, On Paper

Roundtable Recap: July 20 – Startup Ecosystem Development Strategy for Underdeveloped India

During this week’s roundtable, we did a strategy session on how to develop startup ecosystems and pipelines of entrepreneurs outside of the six major metros based on my blog series, Startup Ecosystem in Kolkata: A Strategy Discussion. Very interesting discussion.

BRIKS Technology

For our entrepreneur pitch, we had Kiran Das from Cochin, India, pitch BRIKS Technology, a Generative AI startup focused on e-commerce sales enablement through virtual assistants and chatbots.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Cloud Stocks: Analysis of IBM’s Apptio Acquisition

IBM (NYSE: IBM) recently announced mixed results for its second-quarter. The company continues to grow through acquisitions and recently bought Apptio, a Unicorn player whose founder I had spoken with a few years ago.