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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
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
Positioning is Key for Product-Market Fit and Funding
Are you struggling with attracting customers? There’s a very good chance that your Positioning is off. Positioning drives Product Market Fit (PMF). You HAVE to get it right. Let’s discuss how.
Grow Your Startup With a Paycheck
Are you still employed but dreaming of starting a company? I’m going to give you some contrarian advice: Do NOT quit your job. In 1Mby1M, we support entrepreneurs Bootstrapping with a Paycheck. There is no good reason to quit your job before validating your startup idea.
