How To Succeed As A Solo Entrepreneur With Sramana Mitra

Learn From The Successes And Mistakes Of Solo Entrepreneurs Through Case Studies on Innovation and Business Models

What you'll learn

How to navigate to success as a solo entrepreneur through in-depth interviews with successful solo founders, who share their insights on the subject.

How to identify startup ideas for solo entrepreneurs.

What the trends, new innovations and best business models are for soloprepreneurs.

When and how to bring on a team when you are a solo entrepreneur.

When to start raising funds for your startup when you are a solo entrepreneur.

How to scale your startup when you are a soloprepreneur.

What the exit options are for a solo entrepreneur.

Requirements

The only requirement for this course is an open mind and a willingness to learn.

Description

Want to start a venture of your own?Find a niche. Start solo and run lean.Capital efficient ventures remain the best way to build healthy, robust businesses for a large number of entrepreneurs.Sure, there are exceptions like Facebook, Google, and Amazon that are built differently.But those are low probability scenarios. And raising money for fat startups has become very difficult.And don’t believe the myth that solo entrepreneurs do not succeed.Can you succeed as a solo entrepreneur?Yes. Without a doubt.You ALWAYS start alone.And in these days of virtual companies, you can get lots of help as a solopreneur and get very far in your quest for product-market fit, validation, even traction. You can even bootstrap with a paycheck.Can a solopreneur raise funding?You don’t need a full executive team for seed funding.However, solo entrepreneurs typically have difficulty in raising seed funding.Investors prefer at least one co-founder.If you are a solo founder bootstrapping, you should put all your energy into getting to product-market fit, and getting to paying customers. Not on trying to artificially fill a co-founder position.The way to mitigate this is by bootstrapping your startup to traction, where you have paying customers and a clear path to high velocity customer acquisition as a solo founder. If those metrics are in place, you can raise money without a co-founder.Listen to several successful founders tell you how they began as solopreneurs, bootstrapped, built virtual companies, raised funding, built Unicorns.The 1Mby1M courses are all heavily based on interview-based case studies on Innovation, Business Models, Go To Market Strategies, Validation Principles, and various other nuances of an entrepreneur's journey. We offer extensive opportunities for entrepreneurs to learn the lessons from the trenches from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before.Use this course as a starting point in your acceleration journey with the 1Mby1M global virtual accelerator. Supplement it with the Weekly Free Mentoring Roundtables (Office Hours) on the 1Mby1M website. You can bring your issues and questions, and Sramana will answer.You can also ask questions in the Q&A section of this course, and Sramana will answer.The 1Mby1M Methodology is based on case studies. In this course, Sramana Mitra shares the tribal knowledge of tech entrepreneurs by giving students the rare seat at the table with the entrepreneurs, investors and thought leaders who provide the most instructive perspectives on how to build a thriving business. Through these conversations, students gain access to case studies exploring the alleys of entrepreneurship. Sramana’s synthesis of key learnings and incisive analysis add great depth to each discussion.This course is a Pre-1Mby1M Accelerator course.

Overview

Section 1: How To Succeed As A Solo Entrepreneur

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 How To Succeed As A Solo Entrepreneur

Lecture 3 Developer to Entrepreneur with $20M in Revenue: NLP Cloud CEO Julien Salinas

Lecture 4 From Solo Techie Entrepreneur to High Growth Enterprise AI Success Story

Lecture 5 Nick Carter on Building a Two-sided Farm to Table Marketplace from Indiana

Lecture 6 Solopreneur Fred Luddy Founded ServiceNow

Lecture 7 Fred Luddy, Founder of ServiceNow, Builds an Enterprise Software Giant

Lecture 8 Solo Student Entrepreneur to Over $50M Revenue

Lecture 9 From Developer to Solo Entrepreneur to $5M+ Revenue: SPORCLE Founder Matt Ramme

Lecture 10 From Solo Developer to Venture Scale Entrepreneur: Jordan Boesch, CEO of 7Shifts

Lecture 11 Solo Founder to Funded FinTech Startup: Torpago CEO Brent Jackson

Lecture 12 Solo Entrepreneur and GuideCX CEO Peter Ord Bootstraps First, Raises Money Later

Lecture 13 Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping with a Paycheck to over $15M Revenue

Lecture 14 A Solo Entrepreneur Case Study: EZ Texting and JoonBug Founder Shane Neman

Lecture 15 Solo Entrepreneur Building a Venture Scale EdTech Company from India

Lecture 16 Building A $9 Million Lifestyle Business: Kean Graham, MonetizeMore

Lecture 17 From Solo Entrepreneur To $65 Million In Revenue

Lecture 18 From Student Entrepreneur to a $15M Revenue Ultralight E-commerce Business

Lecture 19 FineArtAmerica CEO Sean Broihier Reaches $5 Million A Year With Three Employees

Lecture 20 Conversation with Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator

Lecture 21 Rare VC in Support of Solo Entrepreneurs: Cameron Kramlich, Angelneers

Lecture 22 Investor Perspective from Nihal Mehta, ENIAC Ventures

Lecture 23 Investors Should Take Solo Founders More Seriously: Michael Smerklo, Next Coast

Section 2: How To Build A Virtual Company

Lecture 24 Bootstraps to $15M with Virtual Team: Ernie Bray, CEO of AutoClaims Direct

Lecture 25 Bootstrapping a 100% Virtual Company from Ireland with Shane Evans, ScrapingHub

Lecture 26 Investor Perspective from Sumant Mandal, March Capital

Section 3: Bootstrap Using A Paycheck

Lecture 27 Bootstrapping A Startup With A Paycheck

Section 4: Frequently Asked Questions / FAQs

Lecture 28 How Can A Solopreneur Build A Tech Business And Exit In 2-3 Years?

Lecture 29 Can You Be Accepted Into Y Combinator As A Solo Founder?

Lecture 30 Do You Have Any Startup Ideas For A Solopreneur To Execute On?

Lecture 31 What Are Some Good Examples Of Virtual Companies?

Lecture 32 Can Solopreneurs Succeed?

Section 5: Case Studies of Solo Entrepreneurs

Lecture 33 Solo Entrepreneurs Case Studies

Section 6: Conclusion

Lecture 34 Bonus Lecture

Ambitious entrepreneurs with limited resources who don’t have co-founders, yet are eager to start validating and building their businesses.,Engineers who want to turn their tech knowledge into multi-million revenue businesses by becoming startup founders rather than remain employees.,Non-tech founders who want to build startups as solo entrepreneurs.,Aspiring founders who want to increase their chances of getting accepted into a top startup accelerator such as Y Combinator, Techstars, and 500 Startups.,Any entrepreneur who wants to learn from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before and from investors who have supported them.,Professors teaching technology entrepreneurship courses anywhere in the world.