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Sramana Mitra

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. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur

and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On

Strategy, and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and

Vision India 2020. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for

Forbes. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS,

Intarka, and Uuma. Sramana has a master’s degree in electrical

engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology.

Recent posts

Bootstrapping Products with Services

Because it’s often so difficult for entrepreneurs to obtain seed funding for their startups, bootstrapping is one of the best methods to self-fund their projects. And offering a service is one... Read more »
Bootstrapping With A Paycheck

Entrepreneurs looking to launch their startups are often faced with myriad difficult decisions, chief among them being the question of seed financing. If you’ve ever found yourself asking, “How can I... Read more »
Healthcare IT: Making Good Progress

The cost of healthcare administration is a hot issue in America. According to the Center for American progress, in the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $361 billion annually goes to cover... Read more »
Crowdsourced Workforces Rising

Crowdsourcing is a growing trend in the tech startup industry, and one that has the potential to address pressing needs in various markets. In particular, crowdsourcing of workforces is seeing tremendous... Read more »
Innovations in Financial Technology: Wisdom of the Crowd

It is of particular interest to me when an established industry begins to innovate and move in new directions. Financial technology has been an active area of innovation all along, but... Read more »
The Series A Crunch: Don’t Get Discouraged

Much is being said on a daily basis about the “Series A crunch.” Supposedly, there aren’t enough venture investors to support all the startups winning seed funding these days.... Read more »
The Million Dollar Club

I had two conversations last week, each of which reinforces a simple phenomenon that I have constantly emphasized over the last five years in my writings.

On Wednesday, I had lunch... Read more »
Women ARE Running Startups

There has been tremendous sensationalizing of the women and entrepreneurship issue. Self-proclaimed (male) pundits pontificate on how women entrepreneurs face tremendous obstacles, huge prejudice.

I disagree.

A blog post that I... Read more »
A Wake-Up Call for Angel Investors

[Editor's note: To tap the wisdom of our distinguished group of Xconomists, we asked a few of them to answer this question heading into 2013: What does your gut tell... Read more »
TrendSpotting: eFood, iEat

The food industry may seem like the last bastion of brick and mortar companies, relying solely on human efforts. Think again. A new crop of entrepreneurs are taking our love of... Read more »
Trendspotting: The Variegated Social Web

The social Web is gradually taking over the Internet. From search to shopping, everything is getting social these days. Time for an overview of what we see in the 1M/1M portfolio... Read more »
Trendspotting: The Era of E-Sharing

From sharing maternity clothing to sharing car rides, this seems to be the era of sharing, and the Internet is playing the role of the grand facilitator. A few people have... Read more »
Small Companies Storm the Edutech Market

Online education is now available for everyone. Parents can home school their children from the moment they start kindergarten until they graduate from high school. Online colleges and universities continue to... Read more »
India vs. Silicon Valley: A SaaSy War

Software as a service (SaaS) probably grew in popularity as quickly as it did thanks to Salesforce.com. The customer relationship management (CRM) giant made the lives of sales professionals much... Read more »
SaaS Spreads to India and Beyond

Software as a service is a thriving and still growing industry with dozens of multi-million dollar companies making their mark around the world. According to Gartner, global spending on the Software-as-a-Service... Read more »
Entrepreneurship Flowers Far Away from Silicon Valley

These days, the media are getting better at reporting on entrepreneurship outside Silicon Valley. Within Silicon Valley, however, people tend to be somewhat cocky about the region’s place in the entrepreneurship... Read more »
Silicon Valley *Is* a Meritocracy

Of late, there has been talk that Silicon Valley is not a meritocracy, and that it is biased against women, black, and older entrepreneurs. I don’t believe this is true.... Read more »
The Other 99 Percent: Entrepreneurs

In my recent piece Reengineering Capitalism I highlighted a phenomenon that the global entrepreneurship ecosystem is paying very little attention to: Over 99 percent of entrepreneurs who seek funding get rejected.... Read more »
Reengineering Capitalism

In the fading months of 2011, we find ourselves in an uncertain world.

On the one hand, America is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, and the nation’s faith in... Read more »
Bootstrapping Our Way Back From the Collapse

Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers last year (along with broader financial markets) the question at the top of my mind has been, “What next?” or maybe, “Where to from here?”... Read more »

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