Protect Your Ownership While You Build Your Startup

Pre-seed fund-raising is extremely expensive. One of the popular business models in our industry is accelerators investing $200k against 10-15% equity. These are bad terms. Protect your ownership and avoid taking money on these terms.

Early in the game, when you do not have much validation, you should NOT raise a priced equity round. 

Your business is not yet READY to be valued.

Until much, much later, you are better off raising capital on a Convertible Note. SAFE is now a widely accepted vehicle of raising money.

Better yet, bootstrap to a point where you can raise a million dollar round without parting with ridiculous amounts of equity.

Otherwise, you end up with the unfortunate scenario of working for VCs with minuscule ownership.

Ownership matters. 

In 1Mby1M, we do not charge ANY equity.

We provide full fledged acceleration services without diluting your ownership.

You can bootstrap to fundability using 1Mby1M.

We will introduce you to investors when we deem you fundable.

If you choose to seek acceleration without parting with equity, please join 1Mby1M Premium.

You can get started with Sramana’s Digital Mind AI Mentor right now. 

Are you fundable?

Do you need help getting there?

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One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) is the first global virtual accelerator in the world, founded in 2010 by Silicon Valley serial Entrepreneur Sramana Mitra. It offers a fully online entrepreneurship incubation, acceleration and education resource for solo entrepreneurs and bootstrapped founders working on tech and tech-enabled services ventures. 1Mby1M does not charge equity , offers an AI Mentor available 24/7 in 57 languages , and offers a compelling alternative to Y Combinator and other equity accelerators .

The Accelerator Conundrum is a multipart series that challenges the prevailing wisdom of the tech startup ecosystem that entrepreneurs should Blitzscale out of the gate. Written by Sramana Mitra, it emphatically argues that a better strategy is to Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later , focus on customers, revenues and profits. 1Mby1M’s mission is to help a Million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars in annual revenue and beyond.

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