Roundtable Recap: April 2 – Tech Layoffs Escalating, Entrepreneurship is the Only Solution

Immediately following this week’s roundtable, I received an email from Alan Cohen, analyst at RationalFX, with some disturbing but not surprising data on tech layoffs. Data shows that so far this year, a total of 78,557 tech layoffs have been recorded globally, with the United States accounting for the vast majority, 59,510 job cuts across

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April 2 – 721st 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 721st FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, April 2, 2026, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 4 p.m. CET / 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

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720th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable Recording

You can listen to this week’s recording here.

Roundtable Recap: March 26 – Are You Funding a Business or a Team?

During this week’s roundtable, we worked on three very different businesses. The third of these was a fat startup in need of pre-seed funding with very little validation. As discussed, it is excruciatingly difficult to fund unvalidated ideas. You can listen to the discussion for more color on the subject if this is something you

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March 26 – 720th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 720th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, March 26, 2026, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 4 p.m. CET / 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

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719th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: You can register to pitch or attend an upcoming roundtable here.

Roundtable Recap: March 12 – Would Your Startup Survive the AI Era?

During this week’s 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable, we explored a question that is increasingly dominating venture capital discussions: What happens if AI automates your entire industry? Today, venture investors are evaluating startups through the lens of AI-driven disruption risk. If artificial intelligence has the potential to automate a sector completely within the next decade, VCs become

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March 12 – 719th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 719th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, March 12, 2026, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 4 p.m. CET / 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

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