The Accelerator Conundrum: Navigating Your Path to Startup Success

Alright, let’s cut through the noise and get to the brutal truth of the startup accelerator world. Many entrepreneurs, starry-eyed and naive, leap headfirst into 3-month accelerator programs without truly understanding the long-term implications. It’s time for an incisive commentary, a necessary dissection.

1Mby1M Udemy Courses with Sramana Mitra: Financing

Raising money to build a startup is a huge challenge. To be able to raise any money at all, you must first understand how investors think. We have developed the following courses catering to entrepreneurs in different stages of their entrepreneurial journey.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Osayi Igharo at Ripple Venture Capital (Part 1)

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

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Osayi Igharo was recorded in January 2020.

Osayi Igharo, Managing Partner at Ripple Venture Capital discusses startups and venture capital in Africa.

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476th Roundtable Recording on March 12, 2020: With Matt Carbonara, Citi Ventures

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Roundtable Recap: March 12 – Biz Dev for Startups in the Age of Corona Virus

Corona Virus looms over everything we do right now. We had extensive discussion on the subject today. My primary strategy for all our entrepreneurs is that biz dev should go on. Do it online. Do it by phone. Do it through content marketing. Do it through Zoom or Webex. But don’t freeze. Your funnel needs to keep moving.

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473rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ashish Jain, 3Lines Ventures

Ashish Jain, Partner at 3Lines Ventures, discusses his firm’s investment hypothesis.

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472nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Deepak Jeevankumar, Dell Technologies Capital

Deepak Jeevankumar, Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, discusses his fund’s focus and preferences.

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473rd Roundtable Recording on February 20, 2020: With Ashish Jain, 3Lines Ventures

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472nd Roundtable Recording on February 13, 2020: With Deepak Jeevankumar, Dell Technologies Capital

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Roundtable Recap: February 27 – Three Reasonable Startups in Validation Mode

During this week’s roundtable, we had three pitches.

Amma’s Kitchen
First up, Kiran Vasudeva from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, pitched Amma’s
Kitchen, a training and subscription service for cooking Indian
vegetarian recipes for people interested in following a plant-based diet.

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470th Roundtable Recording on January 30, 2020: With Osayi Igharo, Ripple VC

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Roundtable Recap: February 20 – Comparables are Key

As our guest this week, we had Ashish Jain, Partner at 3Lines Ventures. We discussed his firm’s investment hypothesis.

Everydae

As for our entrepreneur pitch, today we had Christine Outram pitching Everydae, an educational app venture. I suggested to Christine to investigate comparables for her venture. In 2020, with so much innovation already under way, competition and comparables are areas that investors cannot ignore.

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Roundtable Recap: February 13 – You Have 30 Seconds to Capture My Attention

As our guest this week, we had Deepak Jeevankumar, Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital. We discussed his fund’s focus and preferences.

PhonePass

As for entrepreneur pitches, first up we had Shantanu Bhattacharya from Canberra, Australia, pitch PhonePass, a two-factor authentication technology.

Liglo

Then we had Nickson Zachary from Nairobi, Kenya, pitch Liglo, a mobile personal finance management app.

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470th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Osayi Igharo, Ripple VC

Osayi Igharo, Managing Partner at Ripple VC, discusses startups and venture capital in Africa.

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Roundtable Recap: January 30 – Spotlight on Startups in Africa

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Osayi Igharo, Managing Partner at Ripple VC, who discussed startups and venture capital in Africa.

Burloe
First up, today, was Parinita Hendre from Mumbai, India, pitching Burloe, an e-commerce company focused on shoes and accessories.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jishnu Battacharjee of Nexus Venture Partners (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Jishnu Battacharjee was recorded in November 2019.

Jishnu Bhattacharjee is Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners, a fundamentals-focused firm that aligns with the 1Mby1M philosophy. Jishnu takes us through several examples of how the firm is thinking about investing in startups. Excellent conversation.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anand Rajaraman of rocketship.vc (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Anand Rajaraman was recorded in October 2019.

Anand Rajaraman, Founding Partner at rocketship.vc, was an early investor in Facebook. Among other things, we discuss how the quality of startups from India has been improving.