Roundtable Recap: March 6 – Don’t Quit Your Job During Ideation

During this week’s roundtable, we had one entrepreneur pitch and several questions about our Ideation Methodology.

If you are ideating, our methodology suggests that you do NOT quit your job. Do the 1Mby1M curriculum. Attend the roundtables. Join 1Mby1M Premium if you want active mentoring. But do it all in a Bootstrapping with a Paycheck mode.

Harmonia Music Production Studio

As for the pitch, today we had Monideepa Roy from Pune, India pitch Harmonia Music Production Studio.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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