Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Getting started: How to build the damn thing -- Step 1: Get your mind right: How to build your internal foundation -- Step 2: Your personal success toolbox: How to gather the tools to build your company -- Step 3: You're NOT your custoner: How to make sure your business solves a problem -- Step 4: Product-Market fit: How to turn your solution into a money-making business -- Step 5: Squad goals: How to build an amazing team -- Step 6: Getting the bag: How to get the $$$ you need to grow your company -- Epilogue: Breathe. You just built the damn thing.
Summary:
"An indispensable guide to building a startup and breaking down the barriers for diverse entrepreneurs from the visionary venture capitalist and pioneering entrepreneur Kathryn Finney. Build the Damn Thing is a hard-won, battle-tested guide for every entrepreneur who the establishment has left out. Finney, an investor and startup champion, explains how to build a business from the ground up, from developing a business plan to finding investors, growing a team, and refining a product. Finney empowers entrepreneurs to take advantage of their unique networks and resources; arms readers with responses to investors who say, "great pitch but I just don't do Black women"; and inspires them to overcome naysayers while remaining "100% That B*tch." Don't wait for the system to let you in-break down the door and build your damn thing. For all the Builders striving to build their businesses in a world that has overlooked and underestimated them: this is the essential guide to knowing, breaking, remaking and building your own rules of entrepreneurship in a startup and investing world designed for and by the "Entitleds.""-- Provided by publisher.
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