Tewksbury Public Library

Build the d*mn thing, how to start a successful business if you're not a rich white guy, Kathryn Finney

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Build the d*mn thing

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Kathryn Finney

how to start a successful business if you're not a rich white guy

"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

Prologue : a builder's story -- Introduction. Getting started -- Step 1. Get your mind right -- Step 2. Build your toolbox -- Step 3. From idea to problem : building your idea to solve your customer's problem -- Step 4. From problem to product market fit -- Step 5. From product market fit to team -- Step 6. From team to funding -- Step 7. Breathe. You just built the damn thing

Build the damn thing