Persistence Beats Resistance Okay... so you built something great. But how in the world do you get people to buy? How do you get them to buy fast enough? How do you grow revenue quickly before you run out of runway? In less than 5 minutes today you will get: 1. How to sell faster 2. My Marketing Tech Stack Let's go ๐ ____________________________________________________________ How To Sell Faster Let's get straight into it, here are the 3 core principles of how to sell faster: Ideal Customer...
about 1 year agoย โขย 3 min read
Persistence Beats Resistance When I started Siera, I spoke to 100+ customers in a span of 6 weeks to validate my idea. If I hadnโt, Siera would have died an early death similar to my first startup GuideBuddy. In less than 5 minutes today you will get: 1. 5 Principles To Market Validate Your Startup Idea (so you can build something people want) Let's go ๐ ____________________________________________________________ 5 Principles To Market Validate Your Startup Idea 1/ Brute force outreach is...
about 1 year agoย โขย 2 min read
Persistence Beats Resistance ~40% of founders I've spoken to in the last 6 months needed help to raise funding. I get it, it's hard. But I've raised ~$7M personally from both angels and VCs... If there's one thing I've learned... It's that I needed to focus on the 3 core principles of fundraising to raise successfully. In less than 5 minutes today you will get: 1. 3 Core Principles of Raising Funding 2. Founder Spotlight - Iortyer Meshach Let's go ๐...
about 1 year agoย โขย 5 min read
Persistence Beats Resistance I've raised ~$7M in funding from the CEOs of Fortune 500 corporations to New York and Bay Area Venture Capitalists. Whenever the conversation got serious, the toughest challenge for me was to convince the investors that I knew my customers inside out and had the right go-to-market strategy to scale. There were the 5 key questions around Go-To-Market I got asked every time I went to raise capital. Why do investors ask these 5 questions? To understand what it takes...
over 1 year agoย โขย 5 min read
Persistence Beats Resistance A startup cap table, or capitalization table, is a document that tracks the ownership of a company's equity. Most first-time founders and non-investor-backed founders are clueless about it. So, today, I'm going to give you a cap table for dummies lesson :) In less than 5 minutes today you will get: 1. What is a startup cap table? 2. How to build and track your cap table Let's go ๐ ____________________________________________________________ What is a startup cap...
over 1 year agoย โขย 3 min read
Persistence Beats Resistance Founders tend to get systematic about money management AFTER a crisis hits. Wrong! The biggest lesson I've learned is to implement sound money management from day one. But... We are human and make mistakes. So what do you do when you're running out of runway? In less than 5 minutes today you will get: 1. 5 strategies to extend your cash runway 2. 10 absolute must-dos to raise venture capital quickly Let's go ๐...
over 1 year agoย โขย 3 min read
Persistence Beats Resistance What do you do if you have a problematic co-founder whoโs also the CEO and he/she isnโt running the company the way it should be run? Quit your startup? Figure out a way to make him/her quit. Drag the investors into the room and get the co-founder CEO fired? Nah... Let's dig into why co-founder disputes happen and how to resolve them peacefully. In less than 5 minutes today, you will learn: 1. Why do co-founder conflicts happen? 2. How to solve co-founder disputes...
over 1 year agoย โขย 4 min read
Persistence Beats Resistance It was summer 2022, Siera was running dangerously low on cash... The markets were bad and Investor's weren't willing to help. We had less than a few weeks to save our ass, or potentially wind down the business. They were the worst weeks of my life. By far. But we figured it out somehow... In less than 5 minutes today you will get the: 1. The top 3 founder money challenges 2. (deep dive) How Ali killed his money problems with my 3-step system Let's go ๐...
over 1 year agoย โขย 4 min read
Persistence Beats Resistance I talk to a handful of early-stage founders every week. They come to me from all over the world for advice on how to get started... But most (3 out of 5) are really just worried about how to raise funding. So in less than 5 minutes today you will get: 1. The 2 most important choices you need to make before raising venture capital 2. 3 reasons why angel investors are better for first-time founders Let's go ๐...
over 1 year agoย โขย 4 min read