2025 Resolution: Make VCs Chase 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.

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2025 Resolution: Bootstrap to $1 Million Revenue with Your Startup

Can you hit $1M+ in Revenue in 2025?

In working through the current landscape of our industry, a few trends become evident:

• A large percentage of VCs are chasing Unicorns.

• Too much money chasing too few deals capable of delivering hyper growth bids up valuations.

• Many Death by Overfunding tragedies have emerged.

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2025 Resolution: Bootstrap to an Early Exit with Your Startup

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.

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Colors: Mid Afternoon III

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

Colors: Mid Afternoon II

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

2025 Resolution: Find an Exit for Your Startup

As the new year begins, entrepreneurs need to think about new year resolutions.

Perhaps you have come to the conclusion that you will not seek further funding.

Instead, you will look for an Exit.

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2025 Resolution: Achieve Repeatability with Your Startup to Become Fundable

Will you be going after funding in 2025?

To raise your FIRST institutional funding round OR to raise your NEXT round of funding, the requirement is similar.

You need to show a path to High Velocity Growth.

Velocity, however, is squarely dependent on Repeatability.

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