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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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Startup Strategy
July 10 – 693rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 693rd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 10, 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,
Seedstrapping to Exit
In 1Mby1M, we like Seedstrapping to Exit. An example would be Adya’s acquisition by Qualys. Adya raised a small seed round. I introduced them to Philippe Courtot, CEO of Qualys. Qualys acquired Adya. For our Seed Capital series of podcasts, I’ve interviewed hundreds of investors, especially micro-VCs and angels who play an important role in
691st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with David Evans, Sentiero Ventures
David Evans, Managing Partner at Sentiero Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.
Roundtable Recap: June 26 – AI Investment Thesis with David Evans, Sentiero Ventures
During this week’s roundtable, we had David Evans, Managing Partner at Sentiero Ventures, discussing his firm’s AI investment thesis. Espotz As for entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Parshavv Jain from Ontario, Canada, pitch espotz. Inflahormony Next, we had Yamini Bynagari from San Ramon, California, pitch Inflahormony. Void Then we had Venkat Kalyan from Brisbane,
Ownership Still Matters
Ownership matters. If you end your startup journey with a $50 million exit and own 60% of the company, you make $30 million dollars. But if you have raised a ton of money and own just 5%, you need a $600 million exit to make that same $30 million. Much harder to get to.
Best of Bootstrapping: VC-Funded Venture After Bootstrapping to Exit
A very effective way to dance the entrepreneurial Waltz is to do a bootstrapped company first, sell it, and then do another venture with a more ambitious agenda. From 2021, Jeremy Swift’s journey as Co-founder and CEO of Cordial is a great case study of this method. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of
What Makes Your Startup Hard to Copy
AI is making it easy to build ultralight startups. AI is also making it easy for copycats to flood the market with competing products. Investors HATE a market full of copycats. If you are looking to raise funding, you have to be able to establish a defensibility thesis. By and large, if you are building
Why VCs Keep Saying No
Are you trying to raise money for your startup and getting rejections? It’s worth understanding WHY. VCs are looking for Velocity. Their goal is to achieve $100M in revenue in 5-7 years. How do you do that?
