Sramana Mitra: Our philosophy is Bootstrap First and Raise Money Later – or not at all. Even if it’s bootstrapping with a small amount of capital and you can get to an early exit, that is considered a perfectly fine outcome. Can you talk about a couple of examples from your portfolio that represents the
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Deborah Quazzo, Managing Partner at GSV Ventures, a fund focused on Online Education ventures. This is a very good discussion on patterns of success and failure in the sector, and what investors are gravitating towards. Teenager Startups As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Sulay
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Sramana Mitra: By the time you raised money, what did you have? Rich Waldron: We raised a $2.2 million round in December of 2014. That was the first institutional check. Prior to that, we had some capital from the accelerators and we raised a small angel round off the back of that. Sramana Mitra: How
Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about geography. You talked about this bus tour being the catalyst to founding this firm. Talk about what is your philosophy on location. Tony Olivito: For us, it’s the Midwest. We started the firm because we saw an opportunity due to lack of capital in the Midwest, specifically in areas outside
Rich Waldron: Deep down, we weren’t that passionate about solving email. Email wasn’t a thing we had a problem with. We were being pushed to think through how you want to spend the next 20 years of your life. Some of the bad traits from Europe that we’d picked up is pitching ideas that we
Some audience questions answered by Sramana: – Is there a startup idea to help women return to the workforce? – Is there a startup idea to help older, laid-off engineers? – Do you have any startup ideas for a solopreneur to execute on? – What could be good ideas for Artificial Intelligence startups? – How