492nd Roundtable Recording on July 2, 2020: With Raoul Maier, Eudemian Ventures

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Roundtable Recap: July 2 – Spotlight on Post-Seed Investing

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Raoul Maier, Founder and Managing Partner at Eudemian Ventures, a fund focused on post-seed investment in North America.

Lighthouse

As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Sinjini Sengupta from Gurgaon, India, pitch Lighthouse. The idea is quite nebulous at this point and needs a lot of work.

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491st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Deborah Quazzo, GSV Ventures

Deborah Quazzo is 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.

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491st Roundtable Recording on June 25, 2020: With Deborah Quazzo, GSV Ventures

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tony Olivito of Comeback Capital (Part 3)

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 kinds of companies you like to invest in?

Tony Olivito: Generally if you look at the industries, it makes sense that they’re in the Midwest. There’s logistics and FinTech in the Midwest.

Roundtable Recap: June 25 – Spotlight on Funding for Online Education Startups

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 Shah from Toronto, Canada, pitching an online education platform for teenage entrepreneurs.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tony Olivito of Comeback Capital (Part 2)

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 of big cities. There’s a lot of capital in Chicago.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tony Olivito of Comeback Capital (Part 1)

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.