June 4 – 729th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 729th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, June 4, 2026, 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 from Sramana Mitra, advice

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May 28 – 728th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 728th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, May 28, 2026, 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 from Sramana Mitra, advice

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February 19 – 716th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 716th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, February 19, 2026, at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 5 p.m. CET / 9:30 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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Startup Success Comes from Customers Not Speculators

I want to share with you an insight from 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. It is a complex exercise to give people a message that

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Art.com First, Raised $30 Million Later

Art.com Co-founder Josh Chodniewicz bootstrapped for 10 years before raising a $30 million first round of funding. He shared his journey with me in 2022. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raise, and in what kind of background? Josh Chodniewicz: I was born

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692nd 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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