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Thursday, May 10

Meet the Founder of World's Largest Virtual Accelerator, Sramana Mitra

SG Fireside Chat

Sramana Mitra is the founder of One Million by One Million (1Mby1M), a global virtual accelerator that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. Sramana ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma. Sramana has a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. Sramana was named one of LinkedIn’s Top 10 Influencers in 2015.

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Past Events

Meet the Founder of a CES Honoree IoT Product Company

Learn How to Win Over Investors While Fundraising

Lets Welcome 2018 At New Venue - Peerbuds Innovation Labs

Founder of Sales Intelligence Company "Datanyze" Shares His Journey

Learn How to Build a Stellar Enterprise Software Business - Funding to Scaling

How To Manage Your Startup Financially Well?

Learn about Early Stage Funding from a Seasoned Investor & Entrepreneur

Summer Party

How to become an Influencer? Learn PR Tips with Murray Newlands

Meet the Futurist & Innovator - How to build an innovative culture at Startup?

Growth Hacking with Rana Gujral (Top 10 Entrepreneurs to follow in 2017 by HuffPo)

How to Build an IoT Company with Mike Farley (Founder & CEO Tile)

Learn How to Build Your Startup Story with Ritika Puri (StoryHackers)

Bastin Gerald (Apptivo)

Prashant Shah (TiE Launchpad)

Andrew Dickson (Acre Designs)

Amit Kumar (Trimian)

Andy Pandharikar (Tall Idea Labs)

Saylee R, Niousha B, Yukte O (Female Founders Month)

Donna Novitsky (Yiftee)

Aaron Carpenter (Hubnami)

Andrew Ponec (Dragonfly Systems)

Preetish Nijhawan (Cervin Ventures)

Micah Yairi (Tactus Technology)

Steve Basta (AlterG)

Karl Mehta (EdCast)

Manish Chandra (Poshmark)

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From the Blog

Q&A With Andrew Ponec, CEO of Dragonfly Systems

Shilpi Sharma • 2016-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

Andrew Ponec is the co-founder and CEO of Dragonfly Systems, a solar technology company spun out from Stanford’s electrical engineering department. Dragonfly Systems develops small electronics devices that improve efficiency and reduce installation costs for large commercial and utility-scale solar power installations. In 2014, Dragonfly Systems was acquired by SunPower Corporation, a US-based solar company with the world’s most efficient commercial solar cells. Andrew was also named in Forbes’ 2014 “30 under 30” list for his work in solar energy, and is currently focusing on building efficient energy use and affordable housing technologies. In this Q&A, we dive into Andrew’s background and the circumstances that enabled him to launch a startup at 19, sell it at 20 and continue to make progress thereafter: