Sramana Mitra: So now, let’s switch a little bit to surgery. Now comes the domain of robotic surgery, which is again, a very, very important and very promising area of AI application. It could really change human’s level of access to healthcare in a very big way. However, from a startup point of view, building surgical robots is an expensive game.
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These days, everyone seems to be a startup mentor.
Whether they have ever done a startup or not, whether they have ever raised money or not, they are ready to advise entrepreneurs.
I want to share some things we have learned in running the 1Mby1M program since 2010.
First, it is difficult to give negative feedback to entrepreneurs without triggering a defensive reaction. But it is necessary.

Are you thinking of starting a venture alone in 2025?
Fred Luddy founded ServiceNow as a Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping with a Paycheck.
Today, ServiceNow is one of history’s most successful SaaS companies.
Sramana Mitra: What has driven the choices of which specialty to go on to next?
Daniel Cane: There are several factors we consider when entering a new specialty. The primary question is: where is there a large, underserved population of dissatisfied physicians?
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Gaurav Chaturvedi, Partner at Kae Capital, discusses the trends he is seeing in the Indian startup ecosystem.
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Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Partner at Nexus Venture Partners, has been investing in AI startups for over a decade. This is an excellent and insightful discussion about his AI investment thesis.
>>>Sramana Mitra: So could you double click on your AI algorithm of finding companies and give us a case study of a company that you found with that algorithm? What were the heuristics of how you found this and what were you looking for? How did the algorithm find what you were looking for? How did it go about developing that relationship and finally investing in that company?
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Rajesh Jain has built a Bootstrapped Unicorn from India. This is an important case study for all the bootstrapped entrepreneurs out there looking for inspiration and methodology to scale.
Sramana Mitra: Alright, Rajesh, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from, where were you born, raised, what kind of background?
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