Bootstrapping your products business by offering services is a controversial move, but Sramana Mitra believes she has good evidence that it’s often a successful strategy. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million by One Million) Because it’s often so difficult for entrepreneurs to obtain seed funding for their startups, bootstrapping is one of the best methods [...]
Posts Tagged "Sramana Mitra"
Should You Move to Silicon Valley?
April 19, 2013 – 6:00 am
Don’t be lured by the hype. Think logically and consider all the advantages of other locations before you make a move, advises Sramana Mitra. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) I run the only global, virtual incubator for startups in the world. As such, we constantly get questions from entrepreneurs around the [...]
Trend Spotting: Love and Startups
April 10, 2013 – 7:00 am
A growing high tech startup industry trend has little to do with tech, and a lot to do with togetherness. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) There was a time in Silicon Valley when VCs did not like the idea of funding couples. Nonetheless, Cisco and 3Com – two legendary Valley startups [...]
Five Mompreneurs Say You Can Do It All
February 27, 2013 – 6:00 am
Here are five “mompreneurs” who are charting their own ways in business while still raising a family. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) I frequently facilitate discussions of female entrepreneurs, and the company vs. children question, and I would like to do so again. We’ve seen through conversations with entrepreneurial women like [...]
Women Entrepreneurs: May Be, Baby!
February 15, 2013 – 2:34 pm
After spending time traveling, working with two startups, and a brief stint on staff at a culinary school, Sara Sutton Fell was once again looking for something new. However, the game had changed: Sara was pregnant. In a society filled with full-time mothers, Sara sought emotional fulfillment from work-life balance. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One [...]
Who Said Women Entrepreneurs Don’t Raise Venture Capital?
January 14, 2013 – 6:00 am
Victoria Ransom has crossed all those supposedly insurmountable obstacles: starting up, bootstrapping to validation, raising venture capital to scale, building a solid revenue stream, and finally, achieving a successful exit. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) A blog post that I wrote on the subject in October 2010 still garners readership and [...]
The Best Work-From-Home Opportunity: Your Own Venture
January 13, 2013 – 6:00 am
CableOrganizer has reached close to the $16 million mark with CEO and co-founder Valerie Holstein at the helm. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) Parisian-born Valerie Holstein had a difficult time finding a place where she felt she belonged from the time she first came to the U.S. to attend college in [...]
Startup Lesson: Talk To Customers Before Building Anything
December 30, 2012 – 10:00 am
Through her research, Gülin not only isolated the trend toward automation within the industry, but addressed demand by developing a product that would eliminate outages due to human error. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) In our One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global virtual incubator, we always advise entrepreneurs to talk [...]
Cookie Marenco’s World Of Music
November 21, 2012 – 6:09 pm
Cookie’s entrepreneurial journey is challenging, but also gratifying. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) Cookie Marenco knows the music industry inside out. She started her career at the age of fourteen as a piano teacher. In 1982, she bootstrapped her recording studio with a partner and received Grammy nominations and two Gold [...]
Israeli Entrepreneur Racheli Levkovich, Co-Founder Of Zuznow
October 17, 2012 – 6:00 am
Racheli is from Tel-Aviv, Israel, a country with a population of eight million with more than 4,000 active technology startups. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) Israel has become a hot bed of technological innovation, earning the Startup Nation nickname. Coming from a tradition of strong, capable women, Racheli Levkovich exemplifies both [...]
