How To Get FREE Feedback On Your Business Strategy

By guest author Irina Patterson Working on a business? Have you pitched it at the 1M/1M Free Strategy Roundtable yet? It’s a great way to get some early feedback on your business from a Silicon Valley veteran like Sramana Mitra. This kind of expert feedback is not easy to obtain even if you can afford

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How To Turn Fool’s Gold Into The Real Thing

I recently read a book called Fool’s Gold? The Truth Behind Angel Investing in America by Scott Shaine. Scott is an angel investor himself and is a professor of entrepreneurship at Case Western Reserve University.

How To Access Silicon Valley’s Tribal Knowledge

By guest author Irina Patterson Let’s be pragmatic. Sramana labored over six years to assemble over 500+ case studies of successful entrepreneurs. She collected nuggets of entrepreneurial wisdom. A lot of it came from Silicon Valley where she’s based — Silicon Valley’s tribal knowledge — as she calls it. She synthesized this tribal knowledge into

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How To Become An Agent Of Change In Your Region

By guest author Irina Patterson MAD Incubator is a government supported business incubator in Malaysia. MAD is one of 1M/1M strategic partners in Asia. Andrew Wong, managing director of MAD, reached out to 1M/1M, after he read Sramana’s Entrepreneur Journeys book series. After grasping what 1M/1M could do for his region, Andrew rallied his local

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How to Become a Fundable Entrepreneur

By guest author Irina Patterson As we talked to VCs and angels, we discovered that less than 1% of the entrepreneurs who apply for their funding get funded. Think about it, less than 1%. One of the Silicon Valley’s super angels, Mike Maples, told us that he gets 7,000 deals a year and invests in

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Is Your Region Full Of Savvy Entrepreneurs?

By guest author Irina Patterson Unless you’re based in Silicon Valley, I don’t think so. Many economic development organizations and incubators spend considerable time and money to attract savvy entrepreneurs to their regions. Sometimes, they manage to get entrepreneurs from another state or even another country to move to one of their regional incubators. But

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How Not To Sell Equity Too Cheap, Too Soon

By guest author Irina Patterson At our 1M/1M roundtables, we often hear horror stories of entrepreneurs who have sold 25% of their company to investors in exchange for $15,000. I always find Sramana jumping off her chair when she works with those entrepreneurs.

How Do You Connect Deeply To Silicon Valley?

By guest author Irina Patterson Amidst widespread talk of tech bubbles, it is clear that Silicon Valley is back. Sramana Mitra, the owner of this blog and founder of the 1M/1M Program for entrepreneurs, has been a Silicon Valley insider for more than 15 years. She can connect the dots and open many Silicon Valley

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