Sramana Mitra: Did you sell for stock or cash? Chris Miglino: We sold for stock. We were fresh out of school. This was the first big business transaction that we had done. We had learned a lot about the stock market. We owned a lot of stock in this company that was having a very
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Aviram Jenik: As time passed, there were little engines on the customer side. Java became popular and started replacing what we were doing. The Internet became faster and faster. We shifted towards remote support for something like a printer driver stopping to work. Anybody who had a computer in the second half of the 90s
If you think venture capital is the only path to funding companies, you are, obviously wrong. Chris talks about a whole other world of OTC. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Chris Miglino: I was
Victoria Pettibone, Managing Director of Astia Angels, a group focused on funding women entrepreneurs. She discusses what they like to invest in, as well as the trends she sees in the deal flow and the portfolio.
Sramana Mitra: You knew that you needed to move out. You didn’t know where to move out to. Aviram Jenik: Exactly. It’s not that we had a brilliant idea at that time. We just thought, “Education is nice, but it’s not big enough. This new market that’s coming is huge.” Our engine was like a
Sramana Mitra: The reason why professors want to see how you are proceeding is because they can’t partially mark you. If you’re going in the right direction and somehow made a mistake and got the wrong answer, they can still give you partial points for how you were moving. That’s, I think, the thinking behind