Roundtable Recap: August 28 – It Has Been Deeply Fulfilling

During this week’s roundtable, we celebrated our milestone 700th session with business as usual. It has been a deeply fulfilling journey working with entrepreneurs in a no-nonsense manner for 20 years. Data Poem First up we had Bharath Gaddam from New York, New York, pitch Data Poem. Bharat is a 1Mby1M Premium member about to

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Do Not Chase Investors Before Chasing Customers

Sridhar Vembu built Zoho with zero outside funding to a billion-dollar ARR SaaS company. I wrote the first piece ever written on him in 2007 in my Forbes column. No one had yet heard of Zoho. But VCs were already salivating. Sridhar validated my philosophy of how I advise startups when he came to see

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: David Evans, Sentiero Ventures (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: To your point about accessibility, you talked about the developed world that lacks people who can do certain things, and enabling them to do those things with AI or robots. That is one angle.

August 14 – 698th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 698th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, August 14, 2025, 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, advice on next steps,

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697th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with JP Persico, shuckerVC

Jean-Philippe ‘JP’ Persico, Cofounder and Managing Partner at shuckerVC, discusses his firm’s investment thesis.

697th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: August 7 – 1Mby1M AI Star Data Poem’s Investor Pitch

During this week’s roundtable, first we had Jean-Philippe ‘JP’ Persico, Cofounder and Managing Partner at shuckerVC, discuss his firm’s investment thesis. Data Poem As for our entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Bharath Gaddam from New York pitch Data Poem. Bharath is a premium member of the 1Mby1M program and has bootstrapped an AI venture

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: David Evans, Sentiero Ventures (Part 5)

David Evans: Most of the literature and research that I’ve read says we need to start fresh and clean. That’s part of the reason why companies like Thinking Machines have raised so much money. We can’t just take what we already have and build on top of it. If that were the case, you’d just

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