659th 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 659th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 17, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!         

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659th 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting in 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 659th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, October 17, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to Exit from Oklahoma

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

How often do you hear of a successful entrepreneurship story out of Oklahoma? Well, meet Robin Roberson, Co-founder of WeGoLook. This is our conversation from 2015. WeGoLook was acquired by Crawford & Company in 2017.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of circumstances?

Robin Roberson: I was born in Oklahoma. I was raised, primarily, on a farm. There were about 12 kids in my class. I didn’t know much about the outside world other than what was there in town. I started my entrepreneurial journey in the second grade making yarn belts on the playground. I was able to talk a few of my friends into making them with me. We had quite the distributorship going with yarn belts until the Principal shut us down. When he asked us to stop making yarn belts, I started making Christmas tree ornaments to sell. He shut that down too.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Ashish Gupta, Partner at Clearvision Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So Ashish, I’m gonna switch gears a little bit and ask you about hallucination. Now, here’s an amusing anecdote. A friend of mine sent me a screenshot. He tested what Meta has to say about Sramana Mitra.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Freemium Business Using a Paycheck

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

Aytekin Tank, Founder and CEO of JotForm, is a Turkish entrepreneur who bootstrapped his company with a paycheck. When we spoke in 2015, he was using a freemium business model, and a virtual team strategy to scale.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Aytekin Tank: I was born in Istanbul. I spent my childhood moving from city to city since my family worked for the government. Constantly having to adapt and make friends instilled in me an appreciation for different cultures and meeting new people. We have offices in San Francisco and in Turkey. We have remote workers in 20 countries.

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AI Unicorns: Mistral AI Brings Stiff Competition to Other LLMs

In a market where Open AI and Anthropic remain the giants, there is a relatively new entrant in the space, that is causing quite a stir. Paris-based Mistral AI has been building an alternative to the large language models, and it is being rewarded with a significant market valuation.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Ashish Gupta, Partner at Clearvision Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I’ve recently talked to a number of people who are looking at the services aspect and the human-in-the-loop aspect. Have you invested in companies with human-in-the-loop?

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Ashish Gupta, Partner at Clearvision Ventures (Part 1)

Ashish Gupta, Partner at Clearvision Ventures, has been in the industry for a long time and has an interesting perspective on AI investing.