During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Deepak Gupta, Founding Partner at WEH Ventures, discussing his fund’s pre-seed and seed funding strategy for Indian startups. After that, we spent an hour on a workshop on how to teach entrepreneurship using the 1Mby1M methodology and case studies. You can listen to the recording of
I’m a big advocate for building small, capital-efficient startups. Not all entrepreneurs need to chase Unicorns. Not all investors need to chase Unicorns. There are many more viable ideas for those smaller ventures and there are considerably more opportunities for their exits, which means cashing in earlier on your hard work.
Sramana Mitra: You were getting ready to start something else, but you wanted to develop some sales chops. Where did you do that? Jeremy Swift: I actually told this mentor that he’s crazy. I spent the next year or two warring against that. I finally came back around and this mentor said, “You got to
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A very effective way to dance the entrepreneurial Waltz is to do a bootstrapped company first, sell it, and then do another with a more ambitious agenda. Jeremy’s journey is a great case study in this method. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born,
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 554th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, November 18, 2021, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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
In teaching the 1Mby1M methodology of building technology startups, we recommend you start with Bootstrapping. If you’re teaching within a quarter or a semester system, an entire quarter or semester should be dedicated to driving home the importance and the mechanics of this critical subject.
Entrepreneurship is not a career. It is a way of life. For me, this journey began as a graduate student at MIT in 1994. The world watched Netscape go public that spring, and the Internet swept over us like a virus. As I wrote my Masters thesis, I also wrote my first business plan. We