Bootstrap Your Startup Dreams and Keep Your Day Job + Course Coupons

If you work in tech and are seeing your entrepreneurial friends build their own businesses, you might be wondering if it’s possible for you to do the same without giving up your full-time job. The answer is YES – it’s not only possible, but it’s also a major trend in today’s entrepreneurial landscape.

The truth is, you don’t have to take the plunge into full-time entrepreneurship immediately. In fact, many successful founders, like Girish Navani of eClinicalWorks, built thriving businesses while keeping their day job. The key is to validate your business idea – talk to customers, ensure they’re buying, and confirm that your idea has traction.

Our Bootstrapping a Startup with a Paycheck course is designed for people just like you: tech workers with big ideas but also financial obligations. Entrepreneurs today are navigating the risky, cash-strapped early stages of their startups by leveraging their steady paycheck, or sometimes, their spouse’s income, to stay afloat. Learn directly from entrepreneurs who have successfully walked this path and gain insights on how to validate your idea, manage risk, and decide when to make the leap.

For the month of October, we are offering you up to 85% off this course and all of those listed below.

All of the discount coupons will expire on October 31, 2024, so enroll today!

Bootstrapping:

Bootstrapping a Startup with a Paycheck with Sramana Mitra: TRY1MBY1MOCT2024PAY

Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later with Sramana Mitra: TRY1MBY1MOCT2024BTS

Bootstrapping a Startup with Services with Sramana Mitra: TRY1MBY1MOCT2024SVC

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Featured Videos

Bootstrapping Using Services from Pune: Mindbowser CEO Ayush Jain (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What was the startup that you were working on?

Ayush Jain: At that time, I was working on launching a website focused on exchanging old and new books. The idea was for people to list their books online, similar to eBay, but specifically for books. Other people could then buy them. As a book reader, I noticed that many people have lots of books, and I wanted to create a solution for that.

Bootstrapping Using Services from Pune: Mindbowser CEO Ayush Jain (Part 1)

Services companies are easy to bootstrap, but often, they grow slowly in the beginning. How do you accelerate? This discussion is about the levers of acceleration.

Video FAQs

656th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Investor Gus Tai (Part 1, 2024)

During this week’s roundtable, we had Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures discuss the implications of Human-centric AI, white spaces, comparables and more.

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October 3 – 657th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 657th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 3, 2024, 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 interested. All are welcome!

656th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Partner at Nexus Venture Partners (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Just know, I have a slightly different question on capitalization of these companies. So you talk about these two kids from MIT who are commercializing their PhD thesis, I guess. You have this CalTech professor who’s commercializing his work in the domain of drug discovery using AI. Talk to me a little bit about how you structure these deals. You’re getting in at almost an R&D level.

Roundtable Recap: September 26 – AI Investment Thesis with Investor Gus Tai

During this week’s roundtable, we had Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures discuss the implications of Human-centric AI, white spaces, comparables and more.

Zets

As for pitches, first, we had Nischal Sharma from Jaipur, India, pitch Zets, a ride-sharing service.

Startrit

Next Santosh Kumar from Bengaluru, India, pitched Startrit, a traffic management and surveillance solution.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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