How To Get Into TechStars
Sramana Mitra
Founder and CEO of One Million by the One Million (1Mby1M) Global Virtual Accelerator
During this week’s roundtable, our guest was Nevin Shetty, CEO of Blueprint Registry. Nevin did TechStars last year, and we discussed some strategies for getting into YCombinator and TechStars, the two seed fund accelerators that are high quality and worth going through. Note, there are very few among the 7500+ accelerators out there that are worth parting with 7-10% equity for.
BuildMyBod
As for pitches, Jonathan Kaplan from San Francisco, California, pitched BuildMyBod, a price-comparison service for patients to find doctors and clinics at better rates. Jonathan is a 1M/1M premium member, and is currently doing $170k in revenue. His value proposition is sound and validated.
PayMyGST
Next, Vihari K. from Andhra Pradesh, Inda, pitched PayMyGST, a software for managing and filing the newly introduced (starting July 1, 2017) GST in India.
Phytopod
Then, Shashank Rao from Belmont, California, pitched Phytopod, a set of products for urban farming.
You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:
As always, I would very much like to hear about your business, so let me invite you to come and pitch at one of our free 1M/1M public roundtables. We will be holding future roundtables at 8 a.m. PST on:
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If you want a deeper relationship with me, you are very welcome to join the 1M/1M premium program. If you have any questions about the program, please, first study the website, especially What to expect from the 1M/1M premium program and the FAQs. If you have additional questions, please email me, and I would be very happy to respond. Please note that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs.
SRB associate-CA
8 年Nice article
systems engineer/analyst, "secessio plebis"
8 年These incubators and accelerators offering such trivial investment for such a relatively high equity amount is ludicrous for entrepreneurs to even consider. How is the model any different from say a rancher (the accelerator) fattening up their cattle (the entrepreneur) to send to the slaughterhouse (the venture capitalists). That's all you are to any of them. It's a numbers game and nothing more. And just like the oblivious cattle waiting for slaughter, this process relies on the ignorance of new entrepreneurs to continue to feed the slaughterhouse.