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Roundtable Recap: May 7 – Startup Accelerators Should Be Equity-Free
During this week’s roundtable, we kicked off the session with a discussion of research we’re publishing based on Carta data that has been published this year. Our key conclusion is that Startup Accelerators Should Be Equity-Free. By charging 7-15% equity for small capital injection, accelerators are setting entrepreneurs up for failure. Please read these two
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
724th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable Recording
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Roundtable Recap: April 23 – You Cannot Build Too Many Things in One Startup
During this week’s roundtable, we had a heated argument with one of the entrepreneurs. I told him that he’s doing too many things and it isn’t possible to build a successful startup with so many agendas right at the beginning. Unfortunately, I see this flawed thinking fairly often in entrepreneurs. MarketKrystal As for the pitches, first
707th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording
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Roundtable Recap: November 6 – Be Careful About Rock-Bottom Pricing Strategy
During this week’s roundtable, we had three entrepreneur pitches. Innotek Furniture Fittings Up first we had Udayan Dave from Ahmedabad, India, pitch Innotek Furniture Fittings – a brick and mortar furniture components business with aspirations to broaden into multi-channel. The company is already in revenue. ContentLens.ai Next, we had Rohan Sahu from Bangalore, India, pitch
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped with a Paycheck to $7M
This conversation from 2023 with AIScreen CEO and Co-founder Nikita Sherbina is a classic bootstrapping story with a very small team to serious revenue. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background? Nikita Sherbina: I was born and
Best of Bootstrapping: VC-Funded Venture After Bootstrapping to Exit
A very effective way to dance the entrepreneurial Waltz is to do a bootstrapped company first, sell it, and then do another venture with a more ambitious agenda. From 2021, Jeremy Swift’s journey as Co-founder and CEO of Cordial is a great case study of this method. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of
