Colors: Zahara I

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 – Zahara I

Zahara I | Sramana Mitra, 2019 | Watercolor, Ink | 16  x 20, On Paper

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Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: A lot of enterprise conversational AI applications that you’re talking about are happening more on the customer end – customer service, sales, or customer relationship management. It’s not much on the finance end. So, you rightly point out that this is a more of an open area where you’re starting to see traction.

What is the business model of how you are going to market with your AI solutions? When you do this conversational AI or automation projects, how are you pricing it?

Colors: Illusion V

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 – Illusion V

Illusion V | Sramana Mitra, 2019 | Watercolor, Ink | 16  x 20, On Paper

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April 3 – 679th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 679th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, April 3, 2025, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST.

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.

You can learn more here and REGISTER TO PITCH OR ATTEND HERE. Register and you will receive the recording by email, even if you are unable to attend. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be

678th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: March 27 – The Realities of Pre-Seed Funding

During this week’s roundtable, we had extensive discussions about the realities of pre-seed funding. If you’re in the market for such investment, please review.

Tesser Payments

As for the entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Geetha Panchapakesan from Mountain View, California pitch Tesser Payments, a concept-stage FinTech venture.

Water Current Power

Then we had Michael O’Malley from New Bedford, Massachusetts pitch a hydro-energy idea.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Agentic AI: Lean AI Startup Ninjatech AI Wants to Handle Administrative Tasks End-to-End

The high growth agentic AI market has attracted several players with startups gaining traction as enterprise interest shifts from passive co-pilots to more autonomous systems. Palo Alto-based Ninjatech AI is one such player in the market.

Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Okay. Now I’m going to ask you about the delivery side. So you and your friend Chandra started the business. How did you grow the implementation team?