One Million by One Million

104th 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

By at November 4, 2011 | 8:16 am | 0 Comment

104th 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

104th 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right I know that many, many entrepreneurs are feeling dejected because of investor rejections. Today, I want to share with you a story of an amazing entrepreneurial team led by Alex Bouzari, CEO of Data Direct. In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds, Alex and I explore the company's more...

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How Do You Catalyze A Region’s Entrepreneurship?

By at September 23, 2011 | 8:20 am | 0 Comment

How Do You Catalyze A Region’s Entrepreneurship?

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region’s Entrepreneurship? I have thought a lot about the issue of how to stimulate a region’s entrepreneurship over the years. Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session: Dublin, Ireland, more...

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Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap post

By at September 2, 2011 | 8:44 am | 0 Comment

Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap post

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Fall Call To Action At today’s roundtable, I synthesized some posts from our blog to give entrepreneurs, incubators, investors, and economic development agencies a flavor of what we've been doing this summer to make life easier for you. In How Not To Sell Equity Too Cheap, Too Soon, entrepreneurs would find a discussion of what we more...

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How Do You Bootstrap Freemium Ventures?

By at August 10, 2011 | 10:11 am | 0 Comment

How Do You Bootstrap Freemium Ventures?

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Bootstrap Freemium Ventures? During this week’s roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. I think this is a question on many minds, and we discussed it today as a core more...

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Why Investors & Incubators Need To Look At Pre-Incubation?

By at August 3, 2011 | 10:59 am | 0 Comment

Why Investors & Incubators Need To Look At Pre-Incubation?

Why Investors & Incubators Need To Look At Pre-Incubation This week, I’ve had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system. One theme seems to come up over and again, especially from geographies outside Silicon Valley: lack of a reliable pipeline of deals. On July 1, 2006, more...

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Q&A with Sramana Mitra: Founder of One Million by One Million

By at June 30, 2011 | 11:16 am | 0 Comment

Q&A with Sramana Mitra: Founder of One Million by One Million

One Million by One Million (1M/1M) is a global initiative to nurture a million entrepreneurs to each reach a million dollars in annual revenue. VisionWiz had a Q&A with its founder Sramana Mitra, Founder of One Million by One Million. 1. What was the impetus behind creating such a tool? sm: Since the fall of 2008, we have been hosting FREE online strategy more...

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