Bellingham Entrepreneurs' Lunch & Learn: Bootstrapping your Startup

903 North State Street,Bellingham WA 98225

04 November, 2022

Description

Bellingham Entrepreneurs' Lunch & Learn is a one-hour lecture series featuring notable experts who share startup-related information, experience, and insights with our entrepreneurial community. From raising capital to scaling to exit strategies, these seasoned guest speakers deliver valuable content designed to help startups and entrepreneurs thrive. Lectures are typically about 40 minutes and for the remainder of the hour we'll discuss the presented topic amongst the attendees in the room. November 4th Lunch & Learntopic: Bootstrapping your Startup presenter: Chris Hundley, director of engineering, Drift topic description: How do you start a business without external help or capital? Bootstrap! Bootstrapping your startup allows you to own 100 percent of your business, and, under the right conditions, can be incredibly rewarding. That said, bootstrapping is also extremely difficult. Learn the tactics and strategies you'll need to execute and win without relying on (or answering to!) institutional investors. During his presentation, Chris will cover: Founding principlesRealities of startup investingKeys to successThe highs and lowsExit strategyLunch optionschoose to bring your own lunchhave lunch provided (half of a 16" pizza and a canned drink for $10)simply eat at some other time