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Mar 2022
30m 16s

Raising and selling - no bootstrapping, ...

KONSTANTIN DUBOVITSKIY
About this episode

Nick Desai - Founder and CEO at HeyRenee in this episode talks about how he started 5 companies and how many of them actually made it. He also explains why he chose to raise money from VCs for all his companies and how that decision affected the business.

HeyRenee site: https://www.heyrenee.co/

Nick's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdesaiheal/

Can your investors fire me? Here is an episode of Fundraising Radio explaining this question: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/Jeb-Banner/

If you choose to go the other route, check out our course about reaching out to investors! https://www.fundraising-courses.com/

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