Sramana Mitra
167th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Positioning And Focus Create Fast Sales Cycles
By Guest Post at March 30, 2013 | 9:11 am | 0 Comment
167th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Positioning And Focus Create Fast Sales Cycles Today’s roundtable had some very interesting businesses, each of which has a high potential for success. Sapience First up, Ranjit Nambiar, from Bangalore, India, pitched Sapience (a 1M/1M premium company). We worked on Sapience’s positioning and go-to-market strategy, more...
166th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Differentiation Is Key
By Guest Post at March 22, 2013 | 8:07 am | 0 Comment
166th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Differentiation Is Key Today’s roundtable had three long pitches and a few additional short discussions on elevator pitches by entrepreneurs. CourseGarage.com First up, Shikha Chaudhry from Ghaziabad, India, pitched CourseGarage.com. She proposes to offer a set of courses to teenagers with the purpose of familiarizing more...
164th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: The Diabetics Epidemic
By Guest Post at March 10, 2013 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
164th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: The Diabetics Epidemic Today’s roundtable gave us a very interesting view into the diabetes epidemic raging all over the world. Mocherla Healthcare First up, Yeshwanth Nag from Chennai, India, pitched Mocherla Healthcare, an ayurvedic supplement for diabetes patients. Diabetes is almost like an epidemic in India, more...
161st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Stealth Is Overrated
By Guest Post at February 15, 2013 | 8:15 am | 0 Comment
161st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Stealth Is Overrated Today’s roundtable had a couple of discussions about the pros and cons of stealth mode startups. Someone from the audience asked if we have members sign NDAs before they listen to other entrepreneurs’ pitches. My answer: Absolutely NOT! Trevi First up, Nav Kesher from Seattle, Washington, pitched more...
158th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Meet The One Million Club
By Guest Post at January 26, 2013 | 10:02 am | 0 Comment
158th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Meet The One Million Club Today’s roundtable started with us introducing the audience to The Million Dollar Club, the 1M/1M premium members who have crossed the $1M mark. We love to introduce you to more and more of them as role models, with the accompanying message that you can do it too. Virtual Freedom As for the more...
155th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Last Few Hours To Vote For 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013
By Guest Post at January 4, 2013 | 8:33 am | 0 Comment
155th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Last Few Hours To Vote For 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013 The voting phase of the 1M/1M New Year Challenge is coming to a close at midnight on January 3 and several promising entrepreneurs are emerging as the frontrunners. Everyone is now able to view the entries here (according to their ranks) and the 20 finalists will be more...
153rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Focus On Artificial Intelligence
By Guest Post at December 14, 2012 | 8:30 am | 0 Comment
153rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Focus On Artificial Intelligence Every year, in December, as I think through the various trends I see from our blog’s coverage, I start to synthesize the nuggets. This year, one of the trends I see clearly is an increased adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in various walks of business. At today’s roundtable, we had more...
152nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: IBM SmartCamp Barcelona
By Guest Post at December 12, 2012 | 8:46 am | 0 Comment
152nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: IBM SmartCamp Barcelona For this week’s roundtable, we worked with Marco Laucelli, who manages IBM’s SmartCamp program in Barcelona. Their recently concluded SmartCamp event had over 90 applicants, and five finalists. In today’s event, three of these five finalists were the presenters. Quadrigram First up, Ayman more...
151st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Year Challenge 2013
By Guest Post at December 7, 2012 | 8:17 am | 0 Comment
151st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Year Challenge 2013 After the 150th roundtable celebration last week, we’re back to regular business! During this week’s roundtable, we had five entrepreneurs pitch. Before I talk about them, I’d like to encourage all entrepreneurs who want to apply for the 1M/1M New Year Challenge to submit completed more...
150th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: An Inside View Into Mentoring 2.0
By Guest Post at November 30, 2012 | 8:23 am | 0 Comment
150th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: An Inside View Into Mentoring 2.0 It is hard to believe that we have been running FREE mentoring sessions for entrepreneurs since 2008, and just concluded our 150th roundtable on Nov 29. What started as an experiment four years back has really caught on, and blossomed into the foremost mentoring solution in the more...
148th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Never Too Old To Startup
By Guest Post at November 15, 2012 | 9:39 am | 0 Comment
148th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Never Too Old To Startup During this week’s roundtable, we worked with four entrepreneurs, two of whom are premium members of the 1M/1M program. One of them, John Lynch, is our oldest member. At 90, John is doing a startup company in the area of innovative story-telling and legacy preservation for seniors. I hope that all more...
147th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Kolkata MUST Clinch This Time
By Guest Post at November 9, 2012 | 8:43 am | 0 Comment
147th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Kolkata MUST Clinch This Time I have been trying to get entrepreneurship development in Kolkata moving since 1995, when I started my own entrepreneurial career. At the time, I was one of the first to set up a Silicon Valley startup with a development back-end in Kolkata. The environment was hard. The infrastructure was more...
146th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Emerging Kerala
By Guest Post at November 3, 2012 | 8:47 am | 0 Comment
146th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Emerging Kerala I spent the last few days in Cochin, at the inaugural edition of TiECon Kerala. To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t sure how much entrepreneurial energy exists in Kerala today, so I had some concerns about the event. The organizers of TiECon also did not have a clear sense of what to expect. Registration was at more...
145th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Carbon Trading In Bulgaria
By Guest Post at October 20, 2012 | 8:55 am | 0 Comment
145th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Carbon Trading In Bulgaria Soon I am off to India to deliver the keynote address at TiECon in Kerala and help judge a 1M/1M Pitch-Fest competition next Friday, October 26. Then, on Thursday, November 1, I will be leading the Kolkata 1M/1M Pitch-Fest Competition at iLEAD. As part of a joint effort with local leaders to more...
143rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Kolkata 1M/1M Pitch-Fest
By Guest Post at October 6, 2012 | 9:06 am | 0 Comment
143rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Kolkata 1M/1M Pitch-Fest During today’s roundtable, we spoke with three entrepreneurs. Before I get into the details of those discussions, let me alert you to an upcoming contest. On November 1st, at iLEAD in Kolkata, India, 10 companies will be selected to pitch their businesses during the Kolkata 1M/1M Pitch-Fest more...
142nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Five 1M/1M Ambassadors Win Scholarships
By Guest Post at September 14, 2012 | 8:29 am | 0 Comment
142nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Five 1M/1M Ambassadors Win Scholarships During today’s roundtable, we started the session by celebrating five of our high performing ambassadors: Danielle Faber from Ontario, Canada; Erin Frank from Madison, Wisconsin;Javier Hernández Pérez from Madrid, Spain; Shilpa Kolte from Singapore, Malaysia; and Saikat Sengupta from more...
140th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Hybrid Business Models
By Guest Post at September 1, 2012 | 8:25 am | 0 Comment
140th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Hybrid Business Models During today’s roundtable, we discussed a diverse range of businesses, the best of which has a hybrid business model, with a deep understanding of e-commerce and physical supply chains. LocalFitTank First, Christina Hall from San Diego, California, pitched LocalFitTank, a service for fitness more...
139th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Attention, FinTech Entrepreneurs!
By Guest Post at August 25, 2012 | 9:43 am | 0 Comment
139th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Attention, FinTech Entrepreneurs! We started today’s roundtable with a reminder that the TradeKing-1M/1M pitch fest is on as we speak, and the application deadline is September 10. The finals are scheduled for October 4 and October 11. The contest is focused on financial technology entrepreneurs, and TradeKing, an online more...
138th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: The Free Rider Problem
By Guest Post at August 3, 2012 | 8:37 am | 0 Comment
138th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: The Free Rider Problem During today’s roundtable, we had two pitches and two discussions with 1M/1M premium members. instruMagic First, Eyal Eldar from Tel-Aviv, Israel, pitched instruMagic, an iPad app for playing songs on a guitar. Eyal is working with one of the largest sites for sheet music distribution and his game more...
137th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Date First, Don’t Rush Into A Marriage
By Guest Post at July 27, 2012 | 8:19 am | 0 Comment
137th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Date First, Don’t Rush Into A Marriage During today’s roundtable, we worked with two 1M/1M premium members, one from Israel and another from Malaysia, and a pharmaceutical entrepreneur from California. Zuznow First, Racheli Levkovich from Tel-Aviv, Israel, pitched Zuznow, a mid-tier solution for transforming more...
