Roundtable Recap: June 25 – Choose a Startup Accelerator that Offers a Pedagogy and a Curriculum

When you join a startup accelerator, you are often looking for guidance, connections, and a path to scale. However, the current landscape of cohort-based, equity-charging incubators and accelerators has a glaring, structural defect. Many operate as mini-venture funds rather than educational institutions, prioritizing institutional fundraising over your long-term success. As a founder, you shouldn’t be

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725th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable Recording

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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

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Turning Services into Startup Traction

Bootstrapping a startup to early revenues by providing services is a tried and true methodology that we practice and espouse in 1Mby1M. Why is this set of skills so important? Raising funding for startups in Silicon Valley is a low-probability game. Fewer than 1% who try actually succeed.

708th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Be Careful Who You Take Startup Advice From

Everybody is a startup mentor these days. On LinkedIn, startup advice is cheap and abundant. It can also be very BAD.

Bahrain’s Startup Accelerator Ecosystem and 1Mby1M’s Potential to Assist

The Accelerator Conundrum is 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, it emphatically argues that a better strategy is to Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later, focus on

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November 6 – 707th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 707th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, November 6, 2025, at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 5 p.m. CET / 9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to Pitch and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps,

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