
Have you started or are you stuck in your startup journey?
Many entrepreneurs think that they need a cofounder or a team to start, but it is really simple.

Unicorn is a startup with an estimated valuation of over $1 billion. More than 1000 unicorns exist today.
Snowflake, Atlassian, ServiceNow are examples of startup unicorns. They’re massive, multi-billion dollar publicly traded companies now. Yet, they all started as an idea, took one step after another, grew in size, and so on.
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Investors generally do not fund businesses unless they have some level of validation, customers, and traction. You most likely will need to bootstrap your way to a point where investors would be interested. Please take a look at our free course on Bootstrapping to get a taste of how we teach at One Million by One Million (1Mby1M). You may also check out some of our Udemy courses to get a feel.
Interested in getting some help with validating your startup? Apply to win a one-year scholarship to the 1Mby1M Premium program, sponsored by DataStax, valued at $1000.
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Congratulations to EnCloudEn Co-founder Abinash Saikia and the entire EnCloudEn team! Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) acquired EnCloudEn, an early stage hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software company. The co-founders mostly bootstrapped the company with very small capital, so this is effectively a bootstrapping to exit deal.
“I joined the 1Mby1M Premium program in 2020 and had a very good experience interacting with Sramana,” shares EnCloudEn Co-founder Abinash Saikia. “Her inputs during the private roundtable sessions added a lot of value; she addressed the exact objectives I had. She also made a number of valuable introductions. Overall, the program had a very positive influence on our journey.”
The EnCloudEn acquisition will enable Quantum to expand the addressable market for the company’s video surveillance portfolio, offering customers a solution using their server hardware of choice with a flexible subscription-based software model. EnCloudEn’s approach to simplicity and automation integrates tightly with Quantum’s strategy to offer customers intuitive end-to-end solutions for the video data lifecycle.

Learn the probability of raising funds for your startup. The One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) virtual accelerator teaches entrepreneurs about all of the nuances of bootstrapping your startup. We believe in the Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later mantra. Once you’re ready, we will get you in front of investors. We will also get you ready for investors.
Interested in getting some help with your funding strategy? Apply to win a one-year scholarship to the 1Mby1M Premium program, sponsored by DataStax, valued at $1000. Check out The DataStax – 1Mby1M Startup Challenge.
Watch – Learn — APPLY – Submit Your Application by October 28, 2021.

Are you having difficulty getting traction for your product? You may need to work on the positioning. The One Million by One Million / 1Mby1M virtual accelerator teaches entrepreneurs how to formulate a crisp positioning for their product or service. Use our Self-Assessment tool to help identify where you may need help.
Interested in getting some help with positioning your product or service? Apply to win a one-year scholarship to the 1Mby1M Premium program, sponsored by DataStax, valued at $1000. Check out The DataStax – 1Mby1M Startup Challenge.

Congratulations to Fullcast Co-founder and CEO Dharmesh Singh and the entire Fullcast team! Fullcast announced today that it closed $4 million in Series A funding to accelerate its growth as the only end-to-end RevOps platform. Back in February, we outlined the company’s position in Deal Radar and discussed the company’s bright future with investor Warren Weiss during our recent interview:

Entrepreneurship is not a career. It is a way of life.
For me, this journey began as a graduate student at MIT in 1994. The world watched Netscape go public that spring, and the Internet swept over us like a virus. As I wrote my Masters thesis, I also wrote my first business plan. We were, as a generation, shaping the Internet during those early years, and, my degree in hand, I was ready to jump into the unknown – from then on really, I have been jumping into unknowns at every turn.
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