1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Mohanjit Jolly, Partner at Iron Pillar (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Unfortunately, the media has framed entrepreneurship as financing. Entrepreneurship is customers, revenues, and profits. Financing is optional. Exit is optional. The media has completely confused entrepreneurs with this financing-centric narrative.

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November 20 – 709th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

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If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to Pitch and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register to Attend to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

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708th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Yanev Suissa, SineWave Ventures

Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures, discusses changes in Venture Capital and his firm’s investment thesis.

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Roundtable Recap: November 13 – AI Investment Thesis with Yanev Suissa, SineWave Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures, discuss changes in Venture Capital and his firm’s investment thesis.

Synch Cycle

As for our entrepreneur pitches, first we had Ravikumar K. from Atlanta, Georgia, pitch SynchCycle, a FemTech idea.

Lumiera

Next, we had Maryam Lopes from Ithaca, New York, pitch Lumiera, also a FemTech business.

Difinity.ai

Then we had Atiq Khan from Sydney, Australia, pitch Difinity.ai, a compliance SaaS product.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Mohanjit Jolly, Partner at Iron Pillar (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You probably know this. In 1 Million by 1 Million, we have taken a different approach than the typical venture capital mantra of “blitzscale out of the gate, go big or go home.” We don’t believe in any of that. We do “bootstrap first, raise money later,” and that has produced a lot of very interesting success stories. FreshWorks was incubated in 1Mby1M. The first three years of FreshWorks were here. We didn’t raise money for FreshWorks until they had paying customers.

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