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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New AI FinTech Startup Case Studies Course and Coupons

AI is revolutionizing the FinTech space and our new AI FinTech Startup Case Studies course offers a front-row seat to how today’s most innovative startups are making it happen. From fraud detection to trading, audit, compliance, and hyper-personalization, this course highlights how founders are strategically applying AI to solve real problems and drive massive value.

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Best of Bootstrapping: An AI Startup Bootstrapped Using Services

Co-founder Nitesh Chawla bootstrapped Aunalytics while keeping his academic job at Notre Dame. This is our conversation from 2021. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Nitesh Chawla: I’m from New Delhi although I was born in Calcutta.

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Bootstrapping in the Age of AI

The Age of AI is also the golden age of Bootstrapping. And it is the golden age of Solo Entrepreneurs. With AI, you can build a lot in an ultralight mode and get VCs salivating. The key is Positioning. Let’s discuss the nuances.