ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Jacqueline and her partner Cortney are designing and manufacturing the line out of China and selling in the U.S. Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? Well, there are multiple nuances to the answer.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Very shortly after I joined, Greg Gretsch (now my partner at Jackson Square Ventures) co-led oDesk’s Series A along with Venky Ganesan (partner at Menlo Ventures and lead investor in Rev.com). In my case, in the early days of oDesk, I didn’t start with why, but I quickly discovered it.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

I’m originally from New Delhi, India and have lived in the US for 10+ years now. It was at this point that I decided to start Success Partners Australia, a sales training and consulting company. Thanks Ben Lai, Success Partners ! #5 So far, I believe our devotion to getting it right the first time around has gotten us far.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. Globally, this is a much larger number. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. What we have taken on is hard enough.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

During this time she began showing increasing signs of early-stage dementia. I learned firsthand about the everyday challenges those living with early dementia face, including using the telephone. Thanks to Yotam Alroy, Mindspace – Global boutique coworking provider ! #21- Photo Credit: Tavis Schriefer.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

The key take away from that discussion is: convert potential competitors to partners. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). If possible, of course. You can pitch to be featured on my blog following these instructions. Photo by mjamesno.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 21, 2021

Born behind the iron curtain and despite the humble beginnings of UiPath, Daniel had global ambitions from the offset. In early 2017, while the company only had single-digit revenue, it was already operating in North America, Europe, India and Japan. The Global Partners of Accel.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. Today, this thesis is less relevant. American VCs are critical.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

which will help with recruiting employees, finding the best partners, fast-tracking distribution in key countries, and landing marquee customers. Unlike other countries, China’s business environment is quite insular and having the right investors can be the reason you’re able to connect with important potential customers or partners.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners. Their Partners all come from industry, where each has held senior level executive positions delivering industry-leading products.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. Have an account?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The Salon is Hong Kong’s first international pitching platform to connect start-ups with potential investors and business partners. I have benefited so much from the MaD Venture Fellows Programme,” said Jay Krishnan of Wifinity Tech, “I have got some potential investors and clients lined up and identified some manufacturing partners as well.”

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The premium lounge includes an online curriculum addressing the common topics specific to very early stage entrepreneurship; private roundtables that many of you have requested; customer, channel partners, and investor introductions; media and analyst access; and a variety of other value-added services to make our entrepreneurs successful.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Israel Startup Network (ISN), led by Arlene Marom, one of our affiliate partners, organized the event with us. In fact, Saul Singer, author of Start-up Nation had also helped us promote the event, resulting in a massive turnout that offered us a very interesting view into the early-stage Israeli start-up scene.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. While focus is essential in early startup days, we live in a hyperconnected world, and a global network and perspective is becoming essential to startup success.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. While focus is essential in early startup days, we live in a hyperconnected world, and a global network and perspective is becoming essential to startup success.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Today, Andrew Rachmell from Boca Raton, Florida, discussed peerbackers , a crowdsourced fund raising platform to help very early stage entrepreneurs raise small denomination funding ($50, $100) from friends, family, and peers to help finance the prototype development phase with about $25,000 in seed financing. peerbackers.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. Mava Consulting.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. Accenture opened massive operations in India & China and continued its industry dominance. Arthur Andersen was embroiled in the Enron scandal and forced out of business. The things that always differentiated Accenture?

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant. Now it’s glutted.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

While the CAC ratio helps SaaS businesses at scale to manage their Sales and Marketing spend, the SLC is a helpful framework for early stage businesses before you have meaningful data. Ramping up too quickly will burn precious cash reserve and could sink the business.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. The key is to ask the right people what they think – not your friends, parents or partner.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Only a small handful of other venture firms have grown into such global powers, such as Sequoia and Accel. [ Only a small handful of other venture firms have grown into such global powers, such as Sequoia and Accel. [

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 10, 2003

A number of my portfolio companies outsource development to India and other locales. If it works well, you should have an option to eventually buy your partner out and turn your consultants into employees. with partners), most companies cannot properly build their own offshore team. 2k in-house vs. $3-3.5k

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

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