Roundtable Recap: November 6 – Be Careful About Rock-Bottom Pricing Strategy

During this week’s roundtable, we had three entrepreneur pitches. Innotek Furniture Fittings Up first we had Udayan Dave from Ahmedabad, India, pitch Innotek Furniture Fittings – a brick and mortar furniture components business with aspirations to broaden into multi-channel. The company is already in revenue. ContentLens.ai Next, we had Rohan Sahu from Bangalore, India, pitch

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Your Plan B Against the AI Layoff Trend

AI may not replace all engineers. AI may not replace all job functions. AI WILL vastly reduce headcount at all sizes of companies. What do you do for your Plan B?

Autonomy Is the Ultimate Entrepreneurial Luxury

Autonomy is an underrated luxury. Somehow, investors have convinced entrepreneurs that working 80 hour weeks to make money for them is PRESTIGIOUS. More so than personal wealth creation. More so than family, relationships, health and wellbeing.

Building a Startup Is a Marathon Not a Sprint

Building a startup takes patience and persistence. At 1Mby1M, we’ve learned through thousands of entrepreneurs that success comes from hard work, not shortcuts. Entrepreneurship is a marathon, not a sprint.

AI Startup Case Studies and Courses with Coupons

Artificial intelligence continues to be one of the most transformative forces in technology and some of the most successful startups are emerging directly from this wave of innovation. Our latest set of courses explores how founders across industries are building, bootstrapping and scaling AI ventures that solve real-world problems. In How to Build AI /

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How Entrepreneurs Learn Through Real Case Studies

I want to share with you some things we have learned in running the 1Mby1M program since 2008. Over 700 free mentoring roundtables with over 300k entrepreneurs. Thousands of case studies of successful entrepreneurs – the who’s who of tech startups – through interview based methodology development. Our hypothesis about case-study based learning and mentoring

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1Mby1M Introduces Sramana Mitra’s Digital Mind – An AI Mentor for Startups

Dear Entrepreneurs, We have some exciting news … We’re ready to offer you a privileged (preview) access to the new AI Mentor product from 1Mby1M: Sramana’s Digital Mind. You can “talk” to Sramana’s Digital Mind and ask questions about your strategy, your options, your idea, and anything else that is top of mind and needs

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Ray Wu, Alumni Ventures AI Fund (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Yes, but I was not asking you about AI rollups. I’m asking you about this Y Combinator model of starting a full stack company from scratch.