February 23 – 600th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 600th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, February 23, 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!

Featured Videos

599th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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

Roundtable Recap: February 16 – Two-Sided Marketplaces Don’t Work if You Boil the Ocean

During this week’s roundtable, we had one pitch and another five conversations with entrepreneurs.

Invest4energy

We first had Phuong Skovgaard from London, UK, pitch Invest4energy, a 2-sided marketplace for funding solar panels. We discussed the need for focus and restraint.

Two-sided marketplaces in all kinds of verticals and niche markets have become a key trend in the e-commerce startup space. We explore the various nuances and case studies of how entrepreneurs are building two-sided marketplaces in the Udemy course, How to Build 2-Sided E-commerce Marketplaces | Sramana Mitra.  

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Video FAQs

Building a PropTech Venture with a Virtual Team: Discount Lots President Paul Hersko (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is your primary use case? City dwellers wanting to buy property outside the city?

Paul Hersko: Yes, I would say so.

Sramana Mitra: Were you self-financing still at this point?

Generative AI: A Strategy Blueprint for Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship

Ever since ChatGPT was made available to the general public, everybody is talking about how it will impact the world as we know it. 

ChatGPT is a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3 family of large language models (LLMs). Generative AI is trained on vast amounts of data that enable it to understand and respond like a human. It helps create new content from previously created content. It can write and debug computer programs, compose music, plays, and student essays, and answer test questions. 

OpenAI’s Journey and Financials

OpenAI was originally founded in 2015 with a stated goal of promoting and developing friendly AI in a way that benefits humanity as a whole. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, AWS, Infosys, and YC Research pledged over $1 billion to the venture. 

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Building a PropTech Venture with a Virtual Team: Discount Lots President Paul Hersko (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: All of the properties are in Los Angeles?

Paul Hersko: In the desert though, like near Joshua Tree. That’s how we started. We just bought a bunch of properties.

Sramana Mitra: Why did you choose outside of Los Angeles area?