671st 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

Roundtable Recap: February 6 – TAM Should be Bottom-Up, Not Top-Down

During this week’s roundtable, we had five really interesting presentations. Ottermap Up first Amit Verma from Delhi, India, pitched Ottermap, an area estimation tool for landscaping and other types of service providers in North America using satellite data. The company is already in revenue. Adventuronomy Then Lalit Kumar from Silicon Valley, California, pitched Adventuronomy, an

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2025 Resolution: Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck to Mitigate Risk

Let us say you start your entrepreneurial journey in 2025. The question of funding looms large. If you want to raise funding, most likely you would need to quit your job and go full-time. Investors generally don’t fund companies that are led by part-time founders.

2025 Resolution: Find an Experienced Mentor to Make Your Startup Fundable

As a startup mentor, I always think about how I can make the most impact. These days, everyone claims to be a startup mentor. Whether they have ever done a startup or raised money, they are ready to give advice on how to raise money. Most of the advice you get this way is blind

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2025 Resolution: Bootstrap Your Startup to $1M Revenue

Can you hit $1M+ in Revenue in 2025? In working through the current landscape of our industry, a few trends become evident:

2025 Resolution: Bootstrap Your Startup to an Early Exit

Over the past decade, I’ve had the privilege of working with many bootstrapped entrepreneurs. I’ve helped several of them find Early Exits. I love working with self-financed startups and modestly capitalized ones that operate in a capital-efficient manner applying the principles of bootstrapping. I’ve also interviewed hundreds of investors, especially micro-VCs and angels who are

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January 30 – 670th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 670th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, January 30, 2025, 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,

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669th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: