July 3 – 692nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 692nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 3, 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,

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691st 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting in 30 Minutes

Today’s 691st FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, June 26, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

Best of Bootstrapping: VC-Funded Venture After Bootstrapping to Exit

A very effective way to dance the entrepreneurial Waltz is to do a bootstrapped company first, sell it, and then do another venture with a more ambitious agenda. From 2021, Jeremy Swift’s journey as Co-founder and CEO of Cordial is a great case study of this method. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of

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What Makes Your Startup Hard to Copy

AI is making it easy to build ultralight startups. AI is also making it easy for copycats to flood the market with competing products. Investors HATE a market full of copycats. If you are looking to raise funding, you have to be able to establish a defensibility thesis. By and large, if you are building

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Are You Looking for a Startup Idea?

Are you looking for a startup Idea? Let me give you some notes on my Ideation Methodology.

June 26 – 691st 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 691st FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, June 26, 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,

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690th 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting in 30 Minutes

Today’s 690th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, June 19, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

Positioning Drives Velocity

VCs are salivating over ultralight startups right now. The stigma around solo entrepreneurs will vanish soon. Positioning will remain key to achieving Velocity. And Velocity will continue to drive Fundability. Are you trying to raise money for your startup and getting rejections? It’s worth understanding WHY. VCs are looking for Velocity. Their goal is to

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