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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
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Tony Olivito was recorded in May 2020. Tony Olivito, Partner at Comeback Capital, discusses his firm’s Midwest-focused investment thesis.
Rich Waldron: There was one person who really liked us. The reason was, as a team, there is a clear CTO, a business person, and a product/CEO type. We had an interesting balance of skill sets. We were technically savvy. We were able to produce and build the things that we wanted to. Even if
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 491st FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, June 25, 2020, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your