2025 Resolution: Make VCs Pursue YOU to Fund Your Startup

Please post this on your wall in 2025:

“Startups: Do NOT Go to VCs as Beggars. Go as Kings.”

This is the 1Mby1M mantra and it works.

Over 99% of founders chase funding before they are fundable.

We teach entrepreneurs about how to build with customer money (otherwise known as revenue) until a startup reaches that fundable stage.

Once fundable, a startup can go to investors like a king, not a beggar.

Nowadays, startups can be built while a founder is still fully employed. Many entrepreneurs start as solo founders and achieve great progress until they need a team. Virtual teams are common these days and easily affordable.

At 1Mby1M, we support employed entrepreneurs and solopreneurs who are at the very beginning of their journeys. They might not even know what to build or how to build it.

We encourage entrepreneurs not to quit their day job until their business becomes fundable or sustainable.

Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs get rejected by investors and accelerators every year. Y Combinator rejects over 95% of their applicants. Andreessen Horowitz rejects 99% of theirs.

In this mind-boggling stream of rejections, there are numerous high potential companies that need to bootstrap their way to fundability or sustainability.
We accelerate their learning with the 1Mby1M Curriculum and thousands of case studies of real-life success stories.

We support their fund-raising efforts through personal introductions to investors when they become ready.

If you think you need help, consider a free online mentoring session with me. I will diagnose your roadblocks and we can discuss a path forward.

You can also jump into a full-year Acceleration by joining the 1Mby1M Premium program with me.

This segment is a part in the series : 2025 Resolution