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727th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable Recording
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723rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable Recording
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Roundtable Recap: April 16 – Real Customers, Real Revenues MATTER
During this week’s roundtable, I was thrilled to discuss a business from Nigeria and a business that straddles India, the Middle East, and the US – each with revenue. Not huge revenue. Not exponential growth. But, real revenue. Real customers. And THAT is encouraging. With THAT, we can build a business.
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.
How Blitzscaling Can Create Zombie Startups
Nine out of ten startups that sign up for Blitzscaling fail. They become zombie startups. They cannot raise new rounds of financing. They cannot find an Exit either. They just sit there, feeling like failures. Even if they have built $10M in profitable revenue.
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Decisively to Over $5M
RainmakerForce CRO Mack Sundaram had built a successful business optimized for autonomy and profitability when we spoke in 2018, and the company was acquired in 2023. Excellent navigation! Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Tell us where you’re from. Where did you grow up? Where were you born and raised?
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Tuft & Needle to Over $100M
Online mattress is one of the hottest e-commerce categories, and here is yet another one delivering venture-scale growth without venture capital. Tuft & Needle Co-founder JT Marino shared his story with me in 2017. If you’re inspired by Tuft & Needle’s bootstrapped success, explore how a virtual accelerator for solo founders or an equity-free startup
