Sramana Mitra
107th 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012
By Guest Post at December 9, 2011 | 9:09 am | 0 Comment
107th 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012 At today’s roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. Social Contacts Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. And what do entrepreneurs do? They market and they sell. Well, at the very more...
106th 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
By Guest Post at December 2, 2011 | 8:37 am | 0 Comment
106th 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Premium Company Freshdesk Wins Funding From Accel Partners At today’s roundtable, we announced 1M/1M Premium company Freshdesk’s $1M funding from Accel Partners. Freshdesk is a social customer support startup offering a SaaS solution to small businesses. The team is led by Girish Mathrubootham and more...
104th 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right
By Guest Post at November 4, 2011 | 8:16 am | 0 Comment
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...
103rd 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr
By Guest Post at October 28, 2011 | 9:30 am | 1 Comments
103rd 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr During today’s roundtable, we had some excellent discussions of product marketing for a couple of different concepts. The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at more...
102nd 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: Non-profits And For-profits
By Guest Post at October 21, 2011 | 8:33 am | 0 Comment
102nd 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: Non-profits And For-profits During today’s roundtable, we had a lot of discussion around non-profits and for-profits. Foundups Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups, which he claims will be a platform for Open Corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs more...
101st 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: FREE Is Not A Business Model
By Guest Post at October 14, 2011 | 8:46 am | 0 Comment
101st 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: FREE Is Not A Business Model At today’s roundtable, we had a chance to discuss a topic that continues to bother me endlessly – the Internet’s obsession with FREE. MyStream Richard Zelson, from New York, discussed MyStream, a music streaming app that allows multiple people to listen to the playlist of one more...
100th 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
By Guest Post at October 7, 2011 | 8:17 am | 0 Comment
100th 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism "Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes ... the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree more...
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From California to Canada
By Guest Post at September 30, 2011 | 8:27 am | 0 Comment
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From California to Canada During this week’s roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. In addition, we had attendees from many other parts of the world. more...
How Do You Catalyze A Region’s Entrepreneurship?
By Guest Post at September 23, 2011 | 8:20 am | 0 Comment
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...
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: A View Into Israeli Start-ups
By Guest Post at September 9, 2011 | 8:19 am | 0 Comment
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: A View Into Israeli Start-ups At today’s roundtable, we had a jam-packed pitch session with five Israeli start-ups. Israel Startup Network (ISN), led by Arlene Marom, one of our affiliate partners, organized the event with us. Both the audience and the presenters had a significant representation from that extraordinary more...
Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap post
By Guest Post at September 2, 2011 | 8:44 am | 0 Comment
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...
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How To Use Twitter For Lead Generation
By Guest Post at August 26, 2011 | 8:43 am | 0 Comment
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How To Use Twitter For Lead Generation During this week’s roundtable, we followed a slightly different format than our usual five entrepreneur pitches. We did only one entrepreneur pitch, but we did a couple of tutorials on how to run a comprehensive Twitter campaign. I explained the 1M/1M Twitter strategy, followed by more...
How Do You Bootstrap Freemium Ventures?
By Guest Post at August 10, 2011 | 10:11 am | 0 Comment
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...
Why Investors & Incubators Need To Look At Pre-Incubation?
By Guest Post at August 3, 2011 | 10:59 am | 0 Comment
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...
Q&A with Sramana Mitra: Founder of One Million by One Million
By Rile at June 30, 2011 | 11:16 am | 0 Comment
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...
