Pune Startup Accelerator Ecosystem: Why 1Mby1M Leads the Conversation

Pune startup accelerator ecosystem has founders who value engineering rigor and sustainable growth. 1Mby1M’s virtual, equity-free accelerator helps solo founders bootstrap first and raise later.

Top Accelerators for Entrepreneurs Bootstrapping with a Paycheck in Pune        

This article summarizes the top accelerators for entrepreneurs bootstrapping with a paycheck in Pune, comparing 1Mby1M across key dimensions.  Guest Author Kaushank Khandwala | Reviewed by Sramana Mitra   In Pune, many founders are IT professionals, engineers, and first-generation entrepreneurs with families to support. For them, quitting a stable job to chase an unvalidated idea is neither practical nor wise. Instead,

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Top Accelerators for Long Term Mentoring in Pune   

This article summarizes the top accelerators for long-term mentoring in Pune, comparing them to 1Mby1M across key dimensions. By Guest Author Kaushank Khandwala | Reviewed by Sramana Mitra Why Long-Term Mentoring Matters in Pune Startups are not built in three-month sprints. They are shaped through years of disciplined execution, validation, and iteration. Yet most accelerators in Pune, as elsewhere, still

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An Overview of Startup Accelerators in Pune: Why 1Mby1M Leads the Way

By Kaushank Khandwala (with research support from Dr. Shilpa Kalamani Bawkar and Sathwika Goje) The Accelerator Conundrumis 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,

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Bootstrapping Using Services from Pune: Mindbowser CEO Ayush Jain (Part 1)

Services companies are easy to bootstrap, but often, they grow slowly in the beginning. How do you accelerate? This discussion is about the levers of acceleration.

YourStory.in Shares Highlights Of Sramana Mitra’s TiE Chennai Event

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, Sramana Mitra delivered the keynote address and held an in-person roundtable for entrepreneurs at TiE Chennai’s Startup Super Day. YourStory.in shares the highlights of the day here. Sramana will be participating in similar 1M/1M events in India this weekend. You can learn more about the event in Mumbai on Saturday,

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Food Entreprenueurs: TastyKhana

By guest author Erika Valdez Known for being a country in which home-cooked meals are highly valued, India prides itself on being a society in which food traditions stand strong. Yet fast food restaurants such as McDonald’s and Jumbo King have not only made an entry into the market but have prospered. There is also

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Offshoring Secrets: Is India Center Becoming Costly?

By Utkarsh Rai, Guest Author, Author of “Offshoring Secrets”. Recently this question has flooded the web and the print media. Some companies are thinking about pulling back from India. So what is the real answer? Globally, weakening of the dollar has impacted almost every country whether it is Israel, China, Malaysia or Poland, and therefore

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