Personalized Mentorship

How personalized is the mentorship – will Sramana Mitra or the team actually understand my specific business and industry challenges?

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Building a Venture Scale Cyber Security Startup in the Age of AI: Alon Jackson, CEO of Astrix Security (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: So, two questions on AI. First one is, as you said, there is a tailwind, clearly, because agentic AI this year in 2025 has started to take off, and we are doing this interview in June 2025. We have started hearing about agents quite aggressively all through this year.

So, the vulnerabilities caused by agentic AI are already becoming a bigger opportunity than what you had originally set out to work on. Now, my question is very specific. In your enterprise customers, is agentic AI an issue yet?

Colors: Ronda I

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 – Ronda I

Ronda I | Sramana Mitra, 2018 | Watercolor, Ink, Pastel | 18 x 24, On Paper

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Facilitation for Potential Acquisitions

Does 1Mby1M facilitate connections to potential acquirers, analysts, or media for social proof and market validation?

Yes,1Mby1M does facilitate connections to potential acquirers.

Here’s a breakdown of how:

August 28 – 700th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 700th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, August 28, 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 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.

699th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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

Roundtable Recap: August 21 – Contrarian POV, LLM Wrappers are Okay to Build Businesses Around

During this week’s roundtable, we discussed two businesses.

PeanutWise

We first had Sree Vishnu from Chennai, India, pitch PeanutWise, a D2C e-commerce business.

Guestrix

Then we had Suchita Kuandin from Chicago, Illinois, pitch Guestrix, an LLM wrapper product for property owners who need to manage guests for their AirBnb or other Vacation Rental side businesses.

This discussion is important and relevant because of the ongoing debate on the merit of LLM Wrappers being viable businesses.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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What We Have Learned from Mentoring Startups Since 2008

These days, everyone seems to be a startup mentor. Whether they have ever done a startup or not, whether they have ever raised money or not, they are ready to advise entrepreneurs. I want to share with you some things we have learned in running the 1Mby1M program since 2008. Over 680 free mentoring roundtables. Over 300,000 entrepreneurs have participated.

We started experimenting with the roundtable format of online mentoring way back in the fall of 2008. At the time, 1Mby1M did not exist, not even in our heads. It wasn’t until my January 2010 New Year Resolution that the concept was born.

The 1Mby1M Premium program was launched at the end of 2010. It took us about one year to figure out how to do what we were hoping to do: help entrepreneurs at scale.

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