Billion Dollar Unicorns (Available for order from Amazon Kindle)

The vast majority of entrepreneurs today are trying to figure out how to build billion dollar Unicorn companies. Venture Capitalists have always been looking for Unicorns to fund.
And yet, the probability of founding or funding a Unicorn, by definition, is minuscule. Over 10,000 companies are born every year who go out to seek financing in the venture capital eco-system. Historically, we have only seen five or six Unicorns a year. The Internet’s reach has expanded dramatically, so this number may increase in the upcoming years. Companies are scaling faster these days, once they find the secret sauce that triggers adoption.
In this twelfth volume of her Entrepreneur Journeys series, Sramana Mitra, founder of the One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) global virtual accelerator, invites 17 entrepreneurs who have built ultra-scalable companies for in-depth discussions on how they navigated their ways through the startup process. Sramana’s goal: to identify learnings that can be broadly applicable for millions of entrepreneurs.
Perhaps, this book will help more entrepreneurs learn to build billion dollar Unicorns.
For sure, it will help many more entrepreneurs learn to build successful businesses.

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck (Available for order from Amazon Kindle)

In this eleventh volume of her acclaimed Entrepreneur Journeys series, Sramana Mitra takes on the subject of starting a company while holding onto a full-time job. She talks to entrepreneurs who have built sizable businesses while navigating the messy, cash-strapped startup phases using their own paychecks, or their spouses’ income. The experience simulates sitting down with each of them, discussing over a cup of coffee, the gory details of their decisions.
Risk appetite varies from entrepreneur to entrepreneur. Family situations, financial obligations, constraints, etc. often come on the way of entrepreneurial dreams. This volume is encouraging particularly because of its message of a flexible, pragmatic approach towards startups.

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Carnival In The Cloud (Available for order from Amazon Kindle)

As cloud computing continues to transform the world of IT, more opportunities for entrepreneurs to build cloud businesses come to light. Entrepreneurs have been the greatest drivers of the cloud revolution, creating both new products, services, and amassing tremendous wealth. Forrester estimates that the public cloud market will reach $191 billion by 2020, from $58 billion in 2013.For entrepreneurs looking to build successful cloud businesses, Sramana Mitra is releasing her latest Entrepreneur Journeys book, Carnival In The Cloud.In the book, Sramana shows there is much upside ahead, and many more opportunities for entrepreneurs to build cloud businesses, some beyond the public cloud in areas such as private and hybrid cloud. She gives readers the experience of sitting down across the table with successful entrepreneurs and sharing a cup of coffee, while learning about their experiences, strategies, and lessons from the trenches. These cloud entrepreneurs have each built companies with substantial revenues. Some have raised venture capital, some have bootstrapped, and some have built billion dollar Unicorn companies.

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From eCommerce To Web 3.0 (Available for order from Amazon Kindle)

In this ninth volume of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series, the spotlight is on eCommerce. Sramana Mitra invites readers on a journey to brainstorm with fifteen really successful eCommerce entrepreneurs. They range from solopreneurs, mompreneurs, and couplepreneurs to entrepreneurs who have built billion dollar businesses. The experience is akin to sitting down with each of them, discussing the experience of building a business from scratch over a cup of coffee.Through these stories, Mitra also traces multiple generations of web technologies, offering a clear, crisp point of view of the direction in which the web is evolving. For eCommerce entrepreneurs, this is a must-read volume that simulates the experience of being mentored by fifteen of the field’s great practitioners.Sramana Mitra’s One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) global virtual accelerator follows this principle of case study-based learning to leverage the experience of successful entrepreneurs to teach and mentor those who are trying to grow their businesses in various sectors of the digital economy.

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Bootstrapping Using Services (Available for order from Amazon Kindle)

Over 99% of entrepreneurs who seek financing get rejected. The seed capital gap leaves many entrepreneurs struggling to get their businesses off the ground. Bootstrapping, a tried and true method to self-fund a business, is a must to bridge this gap in seed funding. And offering a service is one of the best ways to bootstrap. Bootstrapping Using Services (Amazon Kindle), the eighth volume of Sramana Mitra’s Entrepreneur Journeys book series, turns the spotlight on entrepreneurs who have successfully bootstrapped their ventures using services, and in many cases, raised venture capital. As an entrepreneur, writer and founder of the One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) global virtual incubator, Sramana gives readers a seat at the table with eight successful entrepreneurs during her in-depth interviews. She synthesizes what is learned in this inspiring and educational book for everyone looking to take their business concepts to the next level.

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Seed India: How To Navigate The Seed Capital Gap In India (Available for order from Amazon Kindle)

While tremendous interest in entrepreneurship in India continues to surge, there is a troubling and corresponding shortage of seed capital to help get these entrepreneurs’ ventures off the ground. Sramana Mitra analyzes the current state of the startup eco-system in India in this addition to her acclaimed Entrepreneur Journeys book series, Seed India: How To Navigate The Seed Capital Gap In India (Amazon Kindle). Mitra proposes ways of navigating the rest of the decade, such that a robust pipeline of entrepreneurs can survive the current malaise, and thrive, while the eco-system develops and matures in parallel.Sramana also discusses in detail several topics and concerns on the minds of most aspiring and practicing entrepreneurs in India: investors, VCs, moving to Silicon Valley, and bootstrapping. Outstanding case studies and role model interviews introduce heroes who have managed to overcome the odds, including:
• Phanindra Sama of redBus
• Sachin Bansal of Flipkart
• Jaspreet Singh of DruvaThis low probability game of building a sustainable venture in India can be won. Optimistic, but pragmatic, Seed India shows how.

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Feminine Feminism (Available for order from Amazon Kindle)

strives towards 1Mby1M’s audacious goal of helping 1 million entrepreneurs globally to each reach $1 million in annual revenue by 2020. With Feminine Feminism, she aims to inspire women to explore the path of entrepreneurship as part of their pursuit of work – life balance. This series of complex, emotional, intimate, and candid perspectives from a great collection of female role models fall under such headings as:
The feminist movement has suffered some major setbacks. One of the greatest is talented women in their thirties dropping out of the workforce in large numbers. In the latest volume of her Entrepreneur Journeys book series – Feminine Feminism (Amazon Kindle) – Silicon Valley entrepreneur and writer Sramana Mitra presents the struggles and triumphs of successful women entrepreneurs who have chosen to make the most of their many talents. Through this collection of essays and interviews, she illustrates how entrepreneurship may be the answer for many women looking for a flexible way to balance a fulfilling career while raising children. As the founder of the One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) global virtual incubator, Sramana Mitra here.

The Other 99% (Entrepreneurs):Fortune In The Middle Of The Pyramid(Available for order from Amazon Kindle)

With so much attention given to the 1% of entrepreneurs who do receive funding, Sramana Mitra turns the tables and presents her analysis of why over 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing get rejected in her new book, The Other 99% (Entrepreneurs): Fortune In The Middle Of The Pyramid (Amazon Kindle). This collection of instructive and thought-provoking essays by Sramana Mitra, a serial entrepreneur, writer, and founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global virtual incubator, discusses top of mind questions for everyone concerned with startups, entrepreneurs, capital flows, and such.What can be done to help millions of entrepreneurs be successful? What causes ‘Infant Entrepreneur Mortality’, and how to reduce it? What roles do incubators play? What roles do corporations play? How to plug the capital gaps in the eco-system? Why is Venture Capital not enough? And what could unlock the fortune in the middle of the pyramid?Like her well-received Entrepreneur Journeys book series, this volume also includes several of Sramana’s intimate interviews with successful entrepreneurs – from whose stories she derives many of her incisive insights – to round out her analysis of why the middle of the economic pyramid is an essential piece of Capitalism 2.0.

“I’m on a quest, searching for a viable, pragmatic framework for Capitalism 2.0,” explains Sramana. “This collection of essays introduces my current thinking and the basis for the One Million by One Million initiative.

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A callto Indian entrepreneurs everywhere, Vision India 2020 challenges and inspires readers to build the future now. In this “futuristic retrospective,” author Sramana Mitra shows how over the next decade, start-up companies in India could be turned into billion-dollar enterprises.Vision India 2020, which encompasses a wide range of sectors from technology to infrastructure, healthcare to education, environmental issues to entertainment, proves how even the most sizeable problems can be solved by exercising bold, ambitious measures.Renowned in the business world, author Sramana Mitra conceived Vision India 2020 from her years of experience as a Silicon Valley strategy consultant and entrepreneur. Well aware of the challenges facing today’s aspiring entrepreneurs, Mitra provides strategies, business models, references, and comparables as a guide to help entrepreneurs manifest their own world-changing ideas.

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Entrepreneur Journeys begins with a simple idea: technology start-up success, and the knowledge required to achieve it, is out there to be leveraged by anyone who is willing to listen. Using her own intimate knowledge of the entrepreneurial world, in this book renowned strategist and Forbes columnist Sramana Mitra captures the stories of entrepreneurs that have come before to help those who are looking to learn. Offering readers an inside view of how to navigate an entrepreneurial path, Mitra synthesizes candid conversations with her own incisive analysis, to create a unique set of case studies. Truly a book that distinguishes itself from the crowded business-book marketplace, Mitra has written a text that is accessible through its story-telling narrative, and at the same time academic in its depth of insight.Find out more about Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume 1 here.

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