May 7 – 725th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 725th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, May 7, 2026, 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 from Sramana Mitra, advice

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724th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: March 5 – Startup Strategy Prompts for the 1Mby1M AI Mentor

During last week’s roundtable, we discussed how to use high quality prompts in 57 languages to frame your startup strategy discussions in our AI Mentor. The 1Mby1M AI Mentor is a 24/7 digital advisory tool designed to provide founders with instant, high-level strategic guidance based on the 1Mby1M methodology. Think of it as having access

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Free Course to Use the 1Mby1M AI Mentor Effectively and Coupons

AI can be a powerful strategic partner for entrepreneurs, but only if you know how to engage it correctly. To help founders get maximum value from the 1Mby1M AI Mentor, we’ve launched a new free Udemy course, AI Mentoring Prompts to Develop Startup Strategy, created expressly to teach entrepreneurs how to work effectively with the

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714th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: February 5 – Niche is Good

During this week’s roundtable, I worked with three founders of niche startups from India. The Reader AI App First up, Midhun Thomson from Bengaluru, India, pitched TheReader.AI app. The product is seeing a small number of paying customers.  KinderStories Next, we had Ajay Sadhu from Hyderabad, India, pitch KinderStories, a niche app for pre-school teachers. 

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How to Validate a Startup Idea Before Writing Any Code

You should not spend 5-7 years of your life on a bogus startup idea. Before you commit invaluable years of your life to an idea, before you write a line of code, you should TEST your idea. How do you do that?

Validate Your Startup Idea Before Writing Any Code

Techie founders generally operate in their comfort zones: they like to write code. They often start developing software before they validate with customers. As such, they often build solutions looking for problems. Do NOT write code before you immerse yourself in customers and develop a deep understanding of what pain you are solving.