August 7 – 697th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 697th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, August 7, 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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696th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: July 31 – AI Investment Thesis with Marina and Nick Davidovs, DVC

During this week’s roundtable, we had Marina and Nick Davidovs, Cofounders and Managing Partners at DVC, a firm that backs only repeat founders doing AI startups. We had a terrific conversation on cutting edge issues within the AI ecosystem. NETSPOC As for our entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Jacob Manamel from Bengaluru, India, pitch

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Start With Customers Not Investors

For our Seed Capital series of podcasts, I’ve interviewed hundreds of investors, especially micro-VCs and angels who play an important role in the early-stage game. The toughest round of funding an entrepreneur will seek to raise is Pre-seed. How do you increase your odds? Pre-seed has the lowest probability of success. Over 99% of the

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July 31 – 696th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 696th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 31, 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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695th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

Roundtable Recap: July 24 – India Investment Thesis with Vinit Bhansali, Takshil Venture Partners

During this week’s roundtable, we had Vinit Bhansali, Founder and General Partner at Takshil Venture Partners, discuss how his firm is investing in India. Indorve As for our entrepreneur pitch, we had Adesh Kumar from Jhansi, India, pitch Indorve. It sounded to me like a TaskRabbit for India. Good idea! You can listen to the

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July 24 – 695th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 695th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 24, 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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