Navigating Through Massive Challenges
Sramana Mitra
Founder and CEO of One Million by the One Million (1Mby1M) Global Virtual Accelerator
During this week’s roundtable, we had Jana Francis, Founder and President of Steals.com, as our guest. Jana has experienced significant challenges in building her bootstrapped company from Utah. She candidly discussed these challenges, and her experiences were eye-opening and inspiring for our audience.
Quimojo
As for the pitches, first up, Dean Owen from Shanghai, China, pitched Quimojo, a candidate database of recent graduates for hiring managers to tap into. Dean is trying to pilot a somewhat different business and usage model for hiring, and we discussed his validation strategy at the session.
VTechis.com
Next, Arindam Chakraborty from Mumbai, India, pitched VTechis.com, a tiny company with five different seemingly related businesses. My core advice to Arindam is to focus on one business, instead of biting a piece each from five different apples.
WordPress theme development
Last up, Fahad Uddin from Pakistan pitched a WordPress theme development idea, citing the example of another Pakistani entrepreneur who has developed a highly sought after set of WordPress themes, and built a web development business around it. The key question is where is the gap in WordPress themes? There are thousands of them. Is there room for more? I don’t know the answer to this question, but Fahad needs to figure that out for himself.
You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:
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