Thursday, December 19 – 199th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 199th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 19, 2013, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and register to pitch or attend here. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!

198th Roundtable Recording On December 12, 2013

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

December 19 – 199th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 199th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 19, 2013, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and register to pitch or attend here. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!

Mentoring Startups: 10 Lessons We Have Learned

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 with you some things we have learned in running the 1M/1M program for three years. Some background and metrics:

• On January 9th, 2014, 1M/1M will be hosting our 200th free online mentoring roundtable.
• We started experimenting with this format of mentoring way back in the fall of 2008. At the time, 1M/1M did not exist, not even in our heads. It wasn’t until my January 2010 New Year Resolution that the concept was born.
• The 1M/1M premium program was launched at the end of 2010. It took us about one year to figure out how to do what we were hoping to do: help entrepreneurs at scale.
• Almost 20,000 people have participated at our free roundtables. At least 1000 have pitched.
• Recordings are made publicly available at our YouTube channel.
• We use the same format in our private roundtables for the premium members, although those recordings are not available except to the members. We’ve done private sessions every week for the last three years.
• We have been able to develop and enrich a curriculum that entrepreneurs use in web self-service mode over the last 3 years. These curriculums, increasingly, are able to address questions from the entrepreneurs without the need for interactive sessions. As such, when we do get into interactive discussions, they are on more sophisticated issues. The basics can be handled by the curriculum.
• Obviously, the feedback is good, or else, we wouldn’t be able to continue with such a consistent, long-running effort.

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Roundtable Recap: December 12 – Spotlight on Kae Capital, India

During today’s roundtable, we saw a couple of entrepreneurs from the portfolio of Kae Capital based in India.

Shopsense
First up, Farooq Adam, working with Kae Capital from Mumbai, India, pitched Shopsense, a retail technology solution that enables brick-and-mortar retailers to place large tablets at their stores, then offer recommendations to shoppers, replicating an e-commerce like experience in stores.

Shopsense has several customers, and a validated product and business model. They believe that their largest market will be North America, which I think is true.
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198th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 198th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, December 12, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

198th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 198th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, December 12, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Thursday, December 12 – 198th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 198th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 12, 2013, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and register to pitch and attend here. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!