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Roundtable Recap: May 21 – Solo Entrepreneurs Are Vital for the AI Era and They Are Ballooning

Posted on Friday, May 22nd

The era of corporate job security is officially dead. With tech layoffs averaging 850 job losses per day in 2026, the excuse of AI-driven restructuring has left millions vulnerable. But a massive macroeconomic shift is happening right under our noses. The rise of the autonomous builder. According to new Carta data from Peter Walker, solo-founded

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The Solo Founder Rise

Posted on Tuesday, May 12th

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sramana Mitra Announces New Strategic Framework as Data Confirms Solo Founders Now Represent 36% of New Startups; 1Mby1M Methodology Validates Individual Founder Model MENLO PARK, CA – Leading entrepreneurship expert Sramana Mitra today released a strategic analysis of the significant rise in solo-founded startups, backed by recent industry data from Carta. According

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Are You Chasing Investors Ahead of Customers?

Posted on Monday, Jun 2nd

Startups are trying to blitzscale and become Unicorns while the market around is falling apart. In the last 18 months, numerous erstwhile Unicorns have stopped growing and started failing.Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later is a MUCH better strategy than Blitzscaling with ridiculous amounts of capital. In 1Mby1M, we prefer Bootstrapping early, then raising small amounts

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