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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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Start With Customers Not Investors
For our Seed Capital series of podcasts, I’ve interviewed hundreds of investors, especially micro-VCs and angels who play an important role in the early-stage game. The toughest round of funding an entrepreneur will seek to raise is Pre-seed. How do you increase your odds? Pre-seed has the lowest probability of success. Over 99% of the
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped an AI Deep Learning Venture to $5M+
It is always thrilling for me to listen to 1Mby1M entrepreneurs achieving great things. This interview capture’s CEO Bharath Gaddam’s 6-year journey of bootstrapping to over $5M ARR. At this point, I am fairly confident that Data Poem can blitzscale to become a legitimate Unicorn. Not fluff, not fumes, clear, concrete ROI-driven revenue growth that
Roundtable Recap: July 10 – AI Investment Thesis with Ray Wu, Alumni Ventures AI Fund
During this week’s roundtable, we had Ray Wu, Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures AI Fund, discussing the fund’s investment thesis. Axon Network KI As for our entrepreneur pitches, first we had Antony Alappatt from Chennai, India, pitch Axon Network Karmic Intelligence. Q3D Sensing, Inc. Next we had Tainyue Yu from Santa Clara, California, pitch Q3D
July 10 – 693rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 693rd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 10, 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,
692nd 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:
Best of Bootstrapping: Solopreneur Bootstrapped with Paycheck to $15M+
SoPost Founder and CEO Jonathan Grubin started as a solo entrepreneur, bootstrapped with a paycheck, and had built an over $15 Million revenue global business with a small amount of funding when we spoke in 2021. Excellent story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were
Build Your Company Before Chasing Venture Capital
Are you trying to get into Y Combinator? Beware, they have a 98% rejection rate. They need to see that you are building something that can be blitzscaled with gobs of venture capital. Blitzscaling, however, is NOT the only way to build a successful company. Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later is a MUCH better strategy
The Accelerator Conundrum: 1Mby1M vs Y Combinator
The Accelerator Conundrum is a multipart series that challenges the prevailing wisdom of the tech startup ecosystem that entrepreneurs should Blitzscale out of the gate. Written by Sramana Mitra, the Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million (1Mby1M), the world’s first global virtual accelerator, it emphatically argues that a better strategy is to Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later, focus
