Bootstrapping Course: Welcome

>>>

Featured Videos

The Startup Velocity Question: What Hinders Acceleration in VC Funded Companies?

I have been running 1Mby1M since 2010. I find myself saying to entrepreneurs ad nauseam that VCs want to invest in startups that can go from zero to $100 million in revenue in 5 to 7 years.

Startups that do not have what it takes to achieve velocity should not be venture funded.

Experienced VCs, over time, have developed heuristics to gauge what constitutes a high growth venture investment thesis. 

Agentic AI: Hippocratic AI is Building a Marketplace of Clinician Agent Creators

The global AI healthcare market is projected to expand at 38.5% CAGR from $19.27 billion in 2023 to $187.7 billion by 2030 driven by the increasing demand for enhanced efficiency, accuracy, and improved patient outcomes. Palo Alto-based Hippocratic AI has emerged as a significant player in this evolving landscape.

Featured Videos

New AI Startup Ideas Course + April Coupons

With AI booming, how do you find real startup opportunities amid the hype? Our new AI Startup Ideas course helps entrepreneurs identify high-potential ventures by exploring AI’s biggest impacts and untapped potential. You’ll learn how successful startups assess market needs, navigate AI challenges and scale effectively. Covering trends like enterprise AI adoption and the specialized vs. general AI debate, this course equips you with the insights to spot viable AI business ideas in a rapidly evolving landscape.

Whether you’re a first-time founder bootstrapping your way forward or a seasoned professional pivoting into AI and tech, our expert-led courses provide the knowledge and strategies you need to succeed. With AI transforming industries faster than ever, staying ahead of the curve is essential. Our courses offer practical insights into launching machine learning ventures, while our methodology courses equip you with real-world strategies to navigate AI-driven innovation.

This April, take advantage of the following course discounts – save up to 85% on our top-rated startup courses before these deals expire on April 30, 2025. Don’t miss this opportunity to upskill, gain confidence and accelerate your entrepreneurial journey.

Enroll today and make 2025 the year your startup takes off!

Artificial Intelligence:

AI Startup Ideas with Sramana Mitra: TRY1MBY1MAPR2025AIID

>>>

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped with Services to $10M and an Exit

Among the biases of the Venture Capital industry that need to be categorically ignored, Bootstrapping Using Services happens to be on the top of the list. Zimit Founder and co-CEO James Cramer shared yet another fantastic textbook case study when we spoke in 2021. Zimit was acquired by Workday in September 2021.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have?

James Cramer: I was born in Southern California. I grew up in a family that moved around a lot. My dad worked in the automotive industry, and so every few years we would change locations. That put me in Seattle, Southern California, the Carolinas, and then ultimately in Florida.

>>>

Video FAQs

Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: You said at the beginning of the interview that you were trying to make up for the margin gap in services companies with velocity. Did you succeed in doing that? In the ten years that you’ve been in business, did you succeed in growing at a very high velocity?

Colors: Zahara I

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Zahara I

Zahara I | Sramana Mitra, 2019 | Watercolor, Ink | 16  x 20, On Paper

Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: A lot of enterprise conversational AI applications that you’re talking about are happening more on the customer end – customer service, sales, or customer relationship management. It’s not much on the finance end. So, you rightly point out that this is a more of an open area where you’re starting to see traction.

What is the business model of how you are going to market with your AI solutions? When you do this conversational AI or automation projects, how are you pricing it?

Colors: Illusion V

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Illusion V

Illusion V | Sramana Mitra, 2019 | Watercolor, Ink | 16  x 20, On Paper

April 3 – 679th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 679th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, April 3, 2025, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to Pitch and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register to Attend to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and REGISTER TO PITCH OR ATTEND HERE. Register and you will receive the recording by email, even if you are unable to attend. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be