Roundtable Recap: July 8 – Building HubSpot to a Unicorn: Dharmesh Shah’s Amazing Entrepreneurial Journey

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Dharmesh Shah, Founder and CTO of HubSpot. Dharmesh discussed his entrepreneurial journey with candor, humility and generosity. Wonderful conversation.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shane Neman, Principal at Neman Ventures (Part 1)

Shane Neman is the Founder of EZ Texting, JoonBug.com, and Principal at Neman Ventures. Shane has bootstrapped two companies as a solo entrepreneur, found successful exits for both, and is now an investor. Needless to say, he has no bias against solopreneurs. 

Sramana Mitra: We are going to spend quite a bit of time today with Shane Neman. I met Shane a while ago in his Entrepreneur Journey story. I found a lot of interesting insights and lessons from his journey that I wanted to highlight and showcase for you. That is what we are going to do for a while today then we will see what else we have time for. Welcome to the show, Shane.

Roundtable Recap: June 24 – Discussion on the Europe-US Bridge for Tech Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Rajeev Singh-Morales at Alma Mundi Ventures. We discussed the Europe – US bridge for tech startups.

Adios

As for our entrepreneur pitch, we had Tarun Gulati from Pune, India, pitching Adios, an app for achieving mental clarity. It aligns with the mental health tech startup trend that Rajeev discussed earlier.

FaveKitchens

Next, we had Praveen Akula from Seattle, Washington, pitching FaveKitchens, a restaurant tech startup that is already doing significant revenue and wants to raise a round.

You can listen to the recording here:

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page.

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Video FAQs

Women Entrepreneurs and Investors: Two Sides of the Proverbial Coin

Is entrepreneurship different for women entrepreneurs?

Is there bias against women entrepreneurs?

Is the increasing presence of women investors changing the venture capital industry?

How to Build an Artificial Intelligence Startup

One of the single hottest trends in technology startups is Artificial Intelligence (AI). Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and various other nuances are being constantly applied to problems up and down the alleyways of all industries from Manufacturing, to Retail, to Education, to Drug Discovery.

All the methodology building blocks you have been learning through the 1Mby1M entrepreneurship fundamentals courses apply. You can, for instance, bootstrap an AI startup with Services, then you can raise money (or not). You can build a Unicorn (or not). To apply current discount coupons, click on the courses found HERE.

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5 Courses on the 1Mby1M Bootstrapping Methodology

At 1Mby1M, we’ve been advocating bootstrapped entrepreneurship for 15+ years.

Throughout that journey, we have done extensive research on how entrepreneurs are successfully bootstrapping companies and finding different degrees and nuances of success.

These 5 courses are great starting points for you to efficiently learn synthesized lessons from the trenches. To apply current discount coupons, click on the courses found HERE.

Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later with Sramana Mitra

Bootstrapping a Startup with a Paycheck with Sramana Mitra

Bootstrapping a Startup with Services with Sramana Mitra

How to Bootstrap Startups by Piggybacking with Sramana Mitra

How To Succeed As A Solo Entrepreneur with Sramana Mitra

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Roundtable Recap: June 17 – Two Excellent Bootstrapping Case Studies

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest San Banerjee, Co-founder of ADDA. San talked about her entrepreneurial journey as a bootstrapped entrepreneur tackling heavily funded competitors.

Tech Adaptika

As for our entrepreneur pitch, we had Hosni Zaoual ifrom Toronto, Canada, pitch Tech Adaptika. The company has bootstrapped very well to a $2M ARR level and has a strong pipeline. They’re getting traction in the virtual conferencing market.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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How Investors Think

If you’ve been bootstrapping your company for a bit, and are wondering whether or not to raise money, remember, Investors are looking to multiply the money that they put into startups.

Multiply by how much? 2X? 3X? 5X? 10X? 20X?

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