$Found In The Rockies - Stef Sample (FUNDID) \\ Simplifying business finance & access to capital$

Stef Sample (FUNDID) \\ Simplifying business finance & access to capital

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11/09/22 • 50 min

Found In The Rockies

Here’s a closer look at the episode:

Growing up in Billings, MT
Moving to Missoula to study Chinese
The Insight Studio and supporting other entrepreneurs
How The Insight Studio helped inspire FUNDID.
Raising her Seed round.
Thinking of fundraising like a competitive sport
The importance of having a good marketing plan in an ecosystem.
If you ask for advice, you get money. If you don’t ask for money you get advice.
How the VC world is broken.
Closing the seed round.
Getting business funding to small businesses - which account for 98% of all women owned businesses
Launching a business charge card direct to those who need it.
A move to Salt Lake to grow FUNDID
Family Balance

Resources:

Website: https://www.getfundid.com/

Stef LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefaniesample/

FUNDID LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fundid/

Here’s a closer look at the episode:

Growing up in Billings, MT
Moving to Missoula to study Chinese
The Insight Studio and supporting other entrepreneurs
How The Insight Studio helped inspire FUNDID.
Raising her Seed round.
Thinking of fundraising like a competitive sport
The importance of having a good marketing plan in an ecosystem.
If you ask for advice, you get money. If you don’t ask for money you get advice.
How the VC world is broken.
Closing the seed round.
Getting business funding to small businesses - which account for 98% of all women owned businesses
Launching a business charge card direct to those who need it.
A move to Salt Lake to grow FUNDID
Family Balance

Resources:

Website: https://www.getfundid.com/

Stef LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefaniesample/

FUNDID LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fundid/

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Found In The Rockies - Stef Sample (FUNDID) \\ Simplifying business finance & access to capital

Transcript

Stef 00:00

I think because I jumped all in so quickly with multiple companies from day one. I've never had the problem of being stuck in the business doing the work. I've always built companies from a high level, and trusted and hired excellent people. And I've never felt the need to micromanage it. And I think it was a necessity then a learned skill because I had so much from the very first day I was in it.

Les 00:36