1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Mohanjit Jolly, Partner at Iron Pillar (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Unfortunately, the media has framed entrepreneurship as financing. Entrepreneurship is customers, revenues, and profits. Financing is optional. Exit is optional. The media has completely confused entrepreneurs with this financing-centric narrative.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Gaurav Chaturvedi, Partner at Kae Capital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Okay. The reason I’m asking this question Gaurav is, so as you know, AI is easier to control in a more constrained mode. The more degrees of freedom you give it, the more it is difficult to control all the issues like hallucination and precision. AI has a tendency to make things up and go a little bit haywire. I’m very curious about what is going to happen when this is actually operating in real world scenarios and how are they constraining?

Bootstrapping Using Services from Pune: Mindbowser CEO Ayush Jain (Part 1)

Services companies are easy to bootstrap, but often, they grow slowly in the beginning. How do you accelerate? This discussion is about the levers of acceleration.

Best of Bootstrapping: Building a Bootstrapped Unicorn from India

Netcore Cloud Founder 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?

Rajesh Jain: I was born and raised in Mumbai and did my schooling there. Then I did Electrical Engineering (EE) from IIT Bombay from 1984 to 1988. Then I went to Columbia for my masters in EE. I worked for two years in the US, and then I came back.

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1Mby1M Udemy Courses with Sramana Mitra: For Educators

For educators and people who want to build thriving communities of entrepreneurs, we have designed a couple of courses that give a roadmap.

Roundtable Recap: July 27 – July Spotlight on Women Entrepreneurs

During this week’s roundtable, we put the spotlight on women entrepreneurs in India in collaboration with our partners, Aspire for Her.

NevilLabs

First up, we had Neha Mahendarkar Vijaya from Bangalore, India, pitch NevilLabs, an EdTech venture.

Cashvisory

Next, Arpita Sinha, from Kolkata, India, pitched Cashvisory, a wealth management advisory platform.

Ecoplore

Then Prerna Prasad from Delhi, India, pitched Ecoplore, an online travel agency for sustainable eco-tourism.

Zevaraati

Aruhima Antarkar from Surat, India, pitched Zevaraati, a diamond jewelry venture.

DermaQ

Next, Ruhi Kurele from Pune, India, pitched DermaQ, a dermatology consulting and treatment app.

iVillage

From Delhi, India, Aryah Vaibhhav Mahajan pitched iVillage, a social enterprise for making cloth bags and such with a mission to replace plastic, manufactured by rural women.

It was an impressive display of energy, talent and immense potential.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Startup Ecosystem in Kolkata: The Help We Need

Join us on Thursday, July 20, at 8:30 p.m. IST / 8 a.m. PDT for a special roundtable program: Brainstorming on Eastern India Startup Development. Come share your perspective, sign up to Speak and we will accommodate as many as possible with a few minutes to talk, register here. In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here.

No, we don’t need money.

We need you to look around in your sphere of influence and find entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs and facilitate their learning.

We need you to guide them to increase their odds of a successful entrepreneurial journey by investing their TIME in a rigorous learning process that is firmly rooted in Bootstrapping. 

Not Blitzscaling. Bootstrapping.

Startup Ecosystem in Kolkata: A Word From Tagore

Join us on Thursday, July 20, at 8:30 p.m. IST / 8 a.m. PDT for a special roundtable program: Brainstorming on Eastern India Startup Development. Come share your perspective, sign up to Speak and we will accommodate as many as possible with a few minutes to talk, register here. In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here.

If you understand the language, listen to this in its Bengali original.

Here’s my English Translation of the poem for those who do not understand the language: