Alternatives to Unicorn Chasing VCs with Sramana Mitra

Case Studies of Investors (Venture Capitalists, Angels) NOT Primarily Interested in Unicorns on Venture Capital Funding

Created by: Sramana Mitra
Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million / 1Mby1M

What Will I Learn?

• Through in-depth interviews and case studies, gain insights on the alternatives to traditional Unicron-chasing VCs.
• Why 99% of entrepreneurs who are seeking funding get rejected by VCs.
• Why traditional VCs only invest in hyper-growth startups with billion-dollar TAMs.
• What non-Unicorn startups are and how investors think about them.
• What some of the key considerations for investors are when they evaluate startups.
• What bootstrapping to exit is and why it is important.
• How entrepreneurs can best position themselves for success when they are building non-Unicorn startups.
• What some of the common mistakes are that entrepreneurs make when pitching their startups to VCs.
• What is the fastest way to find relevant sources of funding when building non-Unicorn startups.

Requirements

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

Target audience

• Ambitious entrepreneurs who want to pursue ideas for which they have both passion and expertise.
• Engineers who want to turn their tech knowledge into multi-million dollar revenue businesses by becoming startup founders rather than remain employees.
• Aspiring founders who want to increase their chances of being accepted into top startup accelerators 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.