The Accelerator Conundrum: 1Mby1M vs Y Combinator

The Accelerator Conundrum is a multipart series that challenges the prevailing wisdom of the tech startup ecosystem that entrepreneurs should Blitzscale out of the gate. Written by Sramana Mitra, the Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million (1Mby1M), the world’s first global virtual accelerator, it emphatically argues that a better strategy is to Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later, focus

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

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

691st 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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

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,

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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.

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

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Roundtable Recap: June 19 – AI Investment Thesis with Felix Hartmann, Hartmann Capital

During this week’s roundtable, we had Felix Hartmann, Managing Partner at Hartmann Capital, discussing his firm’s investment thesis. This segment triggered an excellent discussion on Human Augmentation. (Related reading: Man and Superman). Coach 55 As for entrepreneur pitches, we had Phani Goruganthu from Hyderabad, India, pitch Coach 55, a 2-sided SaaS-enabled marketplace project for sports

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How You Can Plan for an Early Exit

Did you know that the vast majority of acquisitions happen in the sub $50 million valuation range? The best way to make money off such acquisitions is to build a startup with capital efficiency. If you can bootstrap, great. If not, raise small amounts of money so that you own a large percentage of the

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