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seed investment
How Not To Sell Equity Too Cheap, Too Soon
By guest author Irina Patterson At our 1M/1M roundtables, we often hear horror stories of entrepreneurs who have sold 25% of their company to investors in exchange for $15,000. I always find Sramana jumping off her chair when she works with those entrepreneurs.
How Do You Connect Deeply To Silicon Valley?
By guest author Irina Patterson Amidst widespread talk of tech bubbles, it is clear that Silicon Valley is back. Sramana Mitra, the owner of this blog and founder of the 1M/1M Program for entrepreneurs, has been a Silicon Valley insider for more than 15 years. She can connect the dots and open many Silicon Valley
How Not To Waste Your Money On Useless Things
By guest author Irina Patterson Entrepreneurs often say to me, “I love 1M/1M. I’d love to join, but I don’t have $1,000.” Then we talk some more and I find out that they spend $15,000 on building their site without validating their idea. Or, they paid someone $2,000 to write their business plan in hope
How To Reduce The Infant Entrepreneur Mortality Rate
By guest author Irina Patterson Over the past year, we have been talking to various investors – VCs and angels, and incubators and accelerators. What we discovered that the entire startup ecosystem is structured to look for and invest in the less than 1% of the entrepreneurs who are ready and fundable. For example, Highway
The Myth About Seed Funding
By guest author Irina Patterson We, at 1M/1M, have invested significant resources to dispel the myth about seed funding. We engaged with and interviewed some very successful entrepreneurs who bootstrapped multimillion dollar businesses without outside funding. Here are just a few examples: Zoho [CEO Sridhar Vembu], RightNow [CEO Greg Gianforte], eClinicalWorks [CEO Girish Navani] ClubPlanet
MBA vs. 1M/1M, Let’s Do The Math
By guest author Irina Patterson I recently read a book by Philip Delves Broughton called Ahead of the Curve – Two Years at Harvard Business School. The book is about Philip’s firsthand experience at HBS during 2004-2006. The book is so sarcastic that, reportedly, it made Harvard very unhappy. I enjoyed the book, but it
How Do You Scale Mentoring?
By guest author Irina Patterson To date, on this blog, we have interviewed more than 30 incubator managers and more than 40 angel investors, and all of them are looking for solutions to scalable and effective mentoring resources. Most mentors are active or retired entrepreneurs, senior executives, and incubator managers themselves. Most seek not only emotional satisfaction
How Much Is An Entrepreneur’s Time Worth?
By guest author Irina Patterson Ms. Sramana Mitra, the owner of this blog and founder of 1M/1M, interviewed hundreds of successful technology entrepreneurs, many of whom are her good friends. All of them built successful multi-million dollar technology companies by trial and error. Many made mistakes that easily cost them a few million dollars in lengthy
