If you are looking for investor introductions, you have to be READY.
What does it mean to be READY?
Being READY means you need to be able to tell a credible story to defend a high velocity revenue growth investment thesis.
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 – Mid Afternoon IV
Mid Afternoon IV | Sramana Mitra, 2022 | Watercolor, Ink | 9 x 5, On Paper
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.
The increased adoption of AI has led to a surge of new use cases across all industries. One such interesting use-case is being developed by San Francisco-based Exa which is trying build a search engine for AI.
>>>Can you hit $1M+ in Revenue in 2025?
In working through the current landscape of our industry, a few trends become evident:
Over the past decade, I’ve had the privilege of working with many bootstrapped entrepreneurs.
I love working with self-financed startups and modestly capitalized ones that operate in a capital-efficient manner applying the principles of bootstrapping.
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 – Mid Afternoon III
Mid Afternoon III | Sramana Mitra, 2022 | Watercolor, Ink | 9 x 5, On Paper
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 – Mid Afternoon II
Mid Afternoon II | Sramana Mitra, 2022 | Watercolor, Ink | 9 x 5, On Paper