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December 4 – 710th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 710th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, December 4, 2025, 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
709th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording
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Roundtable Recap: November 20 – Manipur Discovers 1Mby1M
During this week’s roundtable, we had our first ever entrepreneur pitch from the tiny Indian state of Manipur, tucked away in the fast Eastern corner, by the Myanmar border. In a discussion at the end of the session, we learned that the state has about 90 startups, and a WhatsApp group has about 180 entrepreneurs
Validate Your Startup Idea Before Writing Any Code
Techie founders generally operate in their comfort zones: they like to write code. They often start developing software before they validate with customers. As such, they often build solutions looking for problems. Do NOT write code before you immerse yourself in customers and develop a deep understanding of what pain you are solving.
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Algo Using Services from Detroit
I am always thrilled to see great entrepreneurship in various parts of the world that are slightly off-center. Well, Algo Founder Amjad Hussain’s journey as shared in 2018 is a great one from Detroit. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and
Best of Bootstrapping: AI Chatbot Startup Bootstrapped with a Paycheck
It took CoRover CEO Ankush Sabharwal and his co-founders two years to launch their first customer, The Indian Railways. During this time, the founders held on to their jobs, diligently fulfilling their responsibilities while also pursuing their dreams. Here is our conversation from 2023. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your journey.
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
Best of Bootstrapping: An AI Startup Bootstrapped Using Services
Co-founder Nitesh Chawla bootstrapped Aunalytics while keeping his academic job at Notre Dame. This is our conversation from 2021. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Nitesh Chawla: I’m from New Delhi although I was born in Calcutta.
