April 9 Roundtable Poll Winner

Girish Mathrubootham’s Freshdesk was chosen the best business of those presented at the live roundtable in Chennai on April 9, 2011, through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can read Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap here.

Roundtable Recap: April 9 – 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3:00 a.m. after a 24-hour journey from California. At 11:00 a.m., a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship.

TiE Chennai organized a Startup Super Day, during which I delivered the keynote address followed by a live strategy roundtable. At the roundtable, five entrepreneurs pitched their businesses to me, and I interacted with them in our usual format, with active participation from the audience.
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Rendezvous With Sramana Mitra In Pune On Sunday, April 17, 2:00 p.m. IST

Persistent Systems and IncuCapital are co-hosting this afternoon event with Sramana Mitra for entrepreneurs in Pune, India, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. IST, on Sunday, April 17, 2011. This event is a part of the 1M/1M initiative, started by Sramana Mitra in 2010 with the goal of helping one million entrepreneurs each reach $1 million in revenues and beyond.

During the roundtable sessions, Sramana will offer help to prepare entrepreneurs to take full advantage of the Microsoft BizSpark India Startup Challenge, which is awarding $100,000 in total grants to four startups with winning ideas in the cloud and mobile categories. You can find more details about the challenge here.

You can find event information and register to pitch during the roundtable or attend the event here.
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Rendezvous With Sramana Mitra In Mumbai On Saturday, April 16, 11 a.m. IST

TiE Mumbai and Indian Angel Network are co-hosting this one day event with Sramana Mitra for entrepreneurs in Mumbai, India, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. IST, on Saturday, April 16, 2011. This event is a part of the 1M/1M initiative, started by Sramana Mitra in 2010 with the goal of helping one million entrepreneurs each reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

During the roundtable sessions, Sramana will offer help to prepare entrepreneurs to take full advantage of the Microsoft BizSpark India Startup Challenge, which is awarding $100,000 in total grants to four startups with winning ideas in the cloud and mobile categories. You can find more details about the challenge here.

You can find event information and register to pitch during the roundtables or attend the event here.
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April 6 Roundtable Poll Winner

Yong Wai Ming’s I-Gamer was chosen the best business of those presented at this week’s roundtable through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can read Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap here or listen to the recording found here.

Rendezvous With Sramana Mitra In Chennai On Saturday, April 9, 11 a.m. IST

TiE Chennai’s Special Interest Group on Startups is hosting a keynote address by Sramana Mitra followed by an in-person 1M/1M strategy roundtable session on Saturday, April 9th, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Entrepreneurs are invited to attend and pitch at the roundtable. The venue is IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai. More details and registration information can be found here.

During the roundtable, Sramana will offer help to prepare entrepreneurs to take full advantage of the Microsoft BizSpark India Startup Challenge, which is awarding $100,000 in total grants to four startups with winning ideas in the cloud and mobile categories. You can find more details here.

Roundtable Recap: April 6 – 1M/1M Announces Important Partnership With MAD Incubator, Malaysia

At this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced a very important  partnership with MAD Incubator, Malaysia for entrepreneurship development in the region. This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley–style technopreneurship in Malaysia. Andrew Wong, CEO of MAD, has been working with us for almost a year, and we have made a mutual choice to deepen the partnership by making MAD a premiere value-added reseller partner of the 1M/1M program.

At today’s session, therefore, all our entrepreneurs were pitching from Malaysia. First up, Alvin Yuen from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, presented ISA Innovation, a company providing a hosted IT asset and inventory management solution.  At present, ISA has a set of pilot clients and is toying with the idea of going global. Well, you can’t really go ‘global’ without a go-to-market strategy that evaluates different markets, and assesses the competitive positioning in each of them. This strategy needs to be developed for ISA, and they have to pick a specific market to go after, rather than going global. >>>

April 6 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, here is the recording: