Books by Sramana Mitra
| Entrepreneur Journeys Billion Dollar Unicorns  | In this 12th volume of the Entrepreneur Journeys series, Sramana Mitra, founder of the One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) global virtual accelerator, invites 17 entrepreneurs who have built ultra-scalable companies for in-depth discussions on how they have navigated their ways through the startup process. Sramana’s goal: to identify nuggets that can be broadly applicable for millions of entrepreneurs to learn from them. |
| Entrepreneur Journeys Bootstrapping With a Paycheck  | In this 11th volume of her Entrepreneur Journeys series, Sramana Mitra takes on the subject of starting a company while holding onto a full-time job. She talks to entrepreneurs who have built sizable businesses while navigating the messy, cash-strapped startup phases using their own paychecks, or their spouses’ income. The experience simulates sitting down with each of them, discussing over a cup of coffee, the gory details of their decisions. |
| Entrepreneur Journeys Carnival in the Cloud  | In this 10th volume of her Entrepreneur Journeys series, Sramana Mitra once again simulates the experience of sitting down across the table with successful entrepreneurs and sharing a cup of coffee, while learning about their experiences, strategies, lessons from the trenches. These cloud entrepreneurs have each built companies with substantial revenues. Some have raised venture capital, some have bootstrapped, some have built billion dollar Unicorn companies. |
| Entrepreneur Journeys From eCommerce to Web 3.0  | In this 9th volume of the Entrepreneur Journeys series, Sramana Mitra invites readers on a journey to brainstorm with fifteen really successful ecommerce entrepreneurs. They range from solopreneurs, mompreneurs, and couplepreneurs to entrepreneurs who have built billion dollar businesses. The experience is akin to sitting down with each of them, discussing the experience of building a business from scratch over a cup of coffee. |
| Entrepreneur Journeys Bootstrapping Using Services  | Yes, the startup market is rife with misconceptions, including that VCs do not fund companies that are bootstrapped using services. In the 8th volume of Entrepreneur Journeys, Sramana Mitra turns the spotlight on case studies of entrepreneurs who have successfully bootstrapped their ventures using services, and in many cases, raised venture capital. |
Entrepreneur Journeys Seed India: How To Navigate The Seed Capital Gap In India  | In Seed India, Sramana Mitra analyzes the current state of the Indian ecosystem, and proposes ways of navigating the rest of the decade, such that a robust pipeline of entrepreneurs can survive the current malaise, and thrive, while the ecosystem develops and matures in parallel. Outstanding case studies and role model interviews introduce aspiring and practicing entrepreneurs to the heroes who have managed to overcome the odds. |
| Entrepreneur Journeys Feminine Feminism  | In this volume, Sramana Mitra presents stories of successful women entrepreneurs. She offers her analysis of how entrepreneurship may be the answer for women looking for a flexible way of balancing an ambitious career while still raising children. Complex, emotional, intimate, candid perspectives offer a window into the struggles and triumphs of women who have chosen to actualize their talents through entrepreneurship. An important message for 21st century women, and a great collection of female role models. |
| Entrepreneur Journeys The Other 99% (Entrepreneurs): Fortune In The Middle Of The Pyramid  | In this collection of essays, Sramana Mitra, presents her analysis of why over 99% of the entrepreneurs who go out to seek financing get rejected. What causes ‘Infant Entrepreneur Mortality’, and how to reduce it? What can be done to help millions of entrepreneurs be successful? What roles do incubators play? What roles do corporations play? How to plug the capital gaps in the eco-system? Why is venture capital not enough? And what could unlock the fortune in the middle of the pyramid? |
Entrepreneur Journeys Innovation: Need Of The Hour  | As in the previous volumes, Sramana Mitra leads specific discussions on bootstrapping and shoestring innovation, which remain the most successful ways to circumvent early-stage funding challenges in order to maintain freedom and control. She turns to innovators in such fields as healthcare and cryptography, gleaning how they found pragmatic and profitable solutions using practical methodologies, such as consulting on intellectual property to generate cash flow. |
Vision India 2020 | In this “futuristic retrospective,” Sramana Mitra shows how over the next decade, start-up companies in India could be turned into billion dollar enterprises. This book encompasses a wide range of sectors from technology to infrastructure, healthcare to education, environmental issues to entertainment, and proves how even the most sizeable problems can be solved by exercising bold, ambitious measures. |
| Entrepreneur Journeys Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market  | In the 3rd book in her Entrepreneur Journeys series, Sramana Mitra offers a close look at the process of sculpting your idea into a sharply defined Go To Market strategy. Clarity, Mitra confirms, is the ultimate tool in building a successful business. But such clarity cannot be purchased or assumed – it requires asking the right questions. Mitra showcases case study after case study of successful entrepreneurs who have answered these questions, analyzed their markets, and defined their value propositions through differentiation, competitive analysis, market sizing, and, among other core elements of a compelling strategic marketing plan, segmentation. |
| Entrepreneur Journeys Bootstrapping: Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction  | The 2nd book in the Entrepreneur Journeys series, takes aim at a core issue missed by most entrepreneurship books: bootstrapping as an essential route along the roadmap to startup success. In Sramana Mitra’s characteristic narrative style, she showcases a dozen entrepreneurs and their lessons from the bootstrapping trenches. Her incisive analysis and commentary shepherd readers through an inspiring expedition into venture-land, a territory she hopes will be claimed by many more in the years to come. |
Entrepreneur Journeys  | In Entrepreneur Journeys, Forbes columnist and serial entrepreneur Sramana Mitra presents an intimate glimpse into the world of tech startups. Through her candid conversations with some of the most innovative practitioners of our times, she captures the stories of entrepreneurs that have come before to offer readers an inside view of how to navigate an entrepreneurial path. |
