Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped an AI Startup to $10M

You hear about fast growth, bootstrapped AI startups. Here’s a great story about one. Undetectable AI CEO Christian Perry is not very interested in raising Venture Capital. Sramana Mitra: All right, Christian, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background?

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September 11 – 702nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 702nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, September 11, 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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Roundtable Recap: September 4 – AI Investment Thesis with Ihar Mahaniok, Geek Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ihar Mahaniok, Managing Partner at Geek Ventures. We had an excellent discussion on AI trends and startup opportunities. AvQuint Innovations As for pitches, first up we had Shantanu Sonawane from Pune, India, pitch AvQuint Innovations, a hardware product for automatically covering cars. Jaovi-Go Then we had

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Roundtable Recap: August 21 – Contrarian POV, LLM Wrappers are Okay to Build Businesses Around

During this week’s roundtable, we discussed two businesses. PeanutWise We first had Sree Vishnu from Chennai, India, pitch PeanutWise, a D2C e-commerce business. Guestrix Then we had Suchita Kuandin from Chicago, Illinois, pitch Guestrix, an LLM wrapper product for property owners who need to manage guests for their AirBnb or other Vacation Rental side businesses.

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New AI Cybersecurity Startup Case Studies Course and Coupons

Cybersecurity is one of the most dynamic sectors in tech, and one of the most challenging for startups to break into. Our new course, AI Cybersecurity Startup Case Studies, is designed to help you navigate this high-stakes industry with real-world examples of startups using AI to solve today’s most urgent security problems. Whether you’re an

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696th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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

691st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with David Evans, Sentiero Ventures

David Evans, Managing Partner at Sentiero Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.

Best of Bootstrapping: Founder Bootstrapped to $10M Using Services

Founder Sameer Maggon discussed bootstrapping SearchStax to $10 million using services with me in 2021. Excellently navigated journey! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, and in what kind of background? Sameer Maggon: I grew up in Delhi. I did my engineering in Computer

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