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709th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

Posted on Friday, Nov 21st

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

Roundtable Recap: November 20 – Manipur Discovers 1Mby1M

Posted on Friday, Nov 21st

During this week’s roundtable, we had our first ever entrepreneur pitch from the tiny Indian state of Manipur, tucked away in the fast Eastern corner, by the Myanmar border. In a discussion at the end of the session, we learned that the state has about 90 startups, and a WhatsApp group has about 180 entrepreneurs

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695th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Vinit Bhansali, Takshil Venture Partners

Posted on Wednesday, Jul 30th

Vinit Bhansali, Founder and General Partner at Takshil Venture Partners, discusses how his firm is investing in India.

Best of Bootstrapping: AI Chatbot Startup Bootstrapped with a Paycheck

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 8th

It took CoRover CEO Ankush Sabharwal and his co-founders two years to launch their first customer, The Indian Railways. During this time, the founders held on to their jobs, diligently fulfilling their responsibilities while also pursuing their dreams. Here is our conversation from 2023. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your journey.

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Best of Bootstrapping: Co-founders Bootstrapped First, Scaled to $16M

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 4th

This is a textbook case study of founders with deep domain knowledge in starting with services and then productizing, eventually raising institutional capital. EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati told us all about their journey in 2021. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born? Where does

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $26M and a Fabulous Exit

Posted on Thursday, May 15th

When we spoke in 2021, Founder CEO Vamsi Kora had bootstrapped Gathi Analytics to over $26 million in revenue in four years and exited at a fabulous multiple. Much to learn from his journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a New Age AI Services Venture

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 23rd

CEO Anji Maram has bootstrapped CriticalRiver to $50M in revenue and is introducing AI into his services business model. We expect to see a lot of this happening all over the tech services ecosystem. AI Services is going to become a massively valuable category. Sramana Mitra: All right, Anji, let’s start at the very beginning

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