She gives away her time to critique entrepreneurs presentations (See http://www.sramanamitra.com/entrepreneurship-strategy-roundt... ) in roundtables that are free to call in and available afterward on her site. She has written four books on bootstrapping and researched a number of success stories. They are as useful in their way as "Founders at Work" or "Four Steps to the Epiphany."
I am not affiliated with her but admire both what she and Eric Ries are trying to do to provide practical guidance to entrepreneurs who are bootstrapping.
I have volunteered to be an ambassador for the program (subsequent to my earlier comment) and as I get a closer look I am beginning to worry that your assessment is correct.
Through the Entrepreneur Journeys project, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur’s life is the pre $1 million revenue stage. This is where numerous ventures fail. Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity.
Thus, I have come to the conclusion that if I could help a million entrepreneurs globally reach $1 million in revenue (and beyond), that would be the foundation of a robust, distributed, and sustainable economic value creation that would add up to a trillion dollars in global GDP.
quite ambitious, especially because $10 quadrillion is about 185 times the total amount of money in circulation throughout the world (according to the World Bank).
screams annoying-advertising-that-tries-to-mask-as-philantropy to me.