A lot of aspiring entrepreneurs are trying to figure out how to start a business. Many others are trying to figure out how to grow it, make it sustainable, or to sell it successfully. In this series of blog posts, I will explore several lessons I learned during my entrepreneurial journey starting and running various businesses Enable Us (backed by venture-capital), SchoolMint (backed by venture capital and private equity) and Mismo (previously known as Log(n)) (bootstrapped)) and successfully going through an acquisition process with great outcomes for investors, employees, and founders. I will be covering various topics like:
- Why Start Your Own Company?
- How do you find your first customer?
- How to find the product-market fit?
- How do you calculate your initial Total Addressable Market (TAM) for your business and what strategies to deploy to expand your TAM?
- How to hire and manage teams?
- How to fundraise (or bootstrap)?
- How to grow the business (sales + marketing with organic and inorganic growth)?
- How to delight and retain your customers?
- How to understand the financials and make sure the business is sustainable and profitable?
- How to set your Mission, Vision, and Core Values?
- When and how to hire your first VP of (Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Engineering, and Product)?
- What KPIs would you track for each team?
- Why, when and how to successfully sell your business?
- Understanding the difference between Venture Capital / Private Equity/Debt and finding what’s best for your business?
- How to continue learning and growing as the founder and CEO?
- How to communicate (internal and external with various stakeholders)?
- What books do I read and highly recommend?
Apart from being an entrepreneur, I am also a technology investor, and I will add different perspectives to these topics by putting my investor hat on.
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