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1Mby1M Udemy Courses with Sramana Mitra: Financing

Posted on Monday, Jul 17th 2023

Raising money to build a startup is a huge challenge. To be able to raise any money at all, you must first understand how investors think. We have developed the following courses catering to entrepreneurs in different stages of their entrepreneurial journey.

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

Posted on Friday, Mar 28th 2025

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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1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Angel Investor Raju Reddy (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Mar 17th 2025

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, and Board Member Raju Reddy discusses his AI investment thesis.

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674th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Anupam Rastogi, Emergent Ventures

Posted on Monday, Mar 3rd 2025

Anupam Rastogi, Managing Partner at Emergent Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.

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673rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Angel Investor Raju Reddy

Posted on Friday, Feb 21st 2025

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, and Board Member Raju Reddy discusses his AI investment thesis.

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2025 Resolution: Secure Meaningful Investor Introductions for Your Startup

Posted on Wednesday, Jan 29th 2025

Will you be seeking investor introductions for your startup in 2025?

Top VC funds operate in the 98% rejection rate zone.

Let’s avoid the pitfalls of wasting time and money without achieving results.

If you are looking for investor introductions, you have to be READY.

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2025 Resolution: Make VCs Pursue YOU to Fund Your Startup

Posted on Tuesday, Jan 28th 2025

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: Make Your Startup Fundable

Posted on Friday, Jan 24th 2025

As you know, I categorically support bootstrapped entrepreneurs.

There are numerous startups now that have achieved some revenue without any external funding.

However, it has taken time. Sometimes, it has taken 5-7 years to get there.

VCs, however, are looking for velocity.
Their goal is to achieve $100M in 5-7 years.

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AI Investor Forum: Gus Tai on AI in Healthcare (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, Jan 14th 2025

Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures, discusses AI in Healthcare startups. Fascinating, comprehensive discussion with concrete pointers.

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AI Investor Forum: Gus Tai on AI in Education (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, Jan 7th 2025

Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures, discusses ideas and opportunities in Education with an AI-augmented framework.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Mo Islam, Partner at Threshold Ventures (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Dec 16th 2024

Mo Islam, Partner at Threshold Ventures. discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis. We had an excellent discussion on AI-enabled drug discovery, AI-enabled medical imaging, etc.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Krishnakumar Natarajan, Co-Founder of Mela Ventures (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Dec 9th 2024

Krishnakumar Natarajan, Co-founder at Mela Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Viola Ventures (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Nov 22nd 2024

Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Viola Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI Investment thesis. If you have been following this series, you know that it has yielded a lot of insights.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Benjamin Narasin, Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Nov 8th 2024

Benjamin Narasin, Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital, discusses his AI investment point of view.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Venktesh Shukla, Founder and Managing Partner at Monta Vista Capital (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Oct 28th 2024

Venktesh Shukla, Founder and Managing Partner at Monta Vista Capital, discusses why he wants to see Human-in-the-Loop Generative AI startups. We’re hearing this a lot right now.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Investor Gus Tai (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 22nd 2024

At a recent roundtable, we had Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures discuss the implications of human-centric AI, white spaces, comparables, and more.

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