Resilient: How to Overcome Anything and Build a Million Dollar Business With or Without Capital

Length: 176 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
ISBN-10: 1119773873
ISBN-13: 9781119773870
Sales Rank: #392212 (See Top 100 Books)

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

Discover how to overcome anything, bootstrap, and go from initial concept to Series A funding with this firsthand look at entrepreneurship

Resilient delivers an invaluable collection of private journal entries mapping out a path from bootstrapping a multi-million dollar business to raising millions in Series A funding for another. Entrepreneur and Resilia CEO Sevetri Wilson describes her journey from self-funding to venture capital success. Written for ambitious and aspiring entrepreneurs like herself, Wilson covers a wide variety of topics about the entrepreneurial journey:

How to go from idea to product
The correct way to dive into the hiring process
Preparing to raise money
Building a tech company as a non-technical founder
How to select the right accelerators, programs, and pitch competitions
Creating wealth while building a business

The author also shares her “Simple Agreement for Future Equity” (SAFE) agreement and first pitch deck. Perfect for entrepreneurs, startup enthusiasts, and founders, Resilient belongs on the bookshelves of anyone interested in the process of bootstrapping and/or raising capital to grow a business in any sector.

Cover
Title page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Coming From Where I’m From
	Triple Threat
Chapter 2 The Difference
	Focus
Chapter 3 Bootstrapping versus Raising Capital
	Professional Services to Startup
	On the Bootstrapping Process
	Repeatable and Predictable Revenue, Regardless
	Money Can’t Be the Only Motivation
Chapter 4 Idea to Product: Building a Startup
	Starting With Funding
	Starting Without Funding
	What Not to Do When Starting a Company
	You’ll Never Get Going Unless . . .
Chapter 5 Building a Team
	Hiring and Finding Freelancers and Others
	Out of the Gate
	Contingency versus Retained Recruiters
	Get Out of the Way
Chapter 6 I Hear You, But I Need Capital
	Financing Terminology
	Preparing to Raise
	What Legal Documents Should I Use?
Chapter 7 Raising a Pre-Seed $400,000
	Pre-Seed, Better Known as a Friends-and-Family Round
	The Pitch
Chapter 8 Accelerators and Pitch Competitions? Bang or Bust
Chapter 9 Raising My Seed Round
Chapter 10 Product Market Fit
	Sales: Remember Predictable, Repeatable Revenue?
Chapter 11 Raising a Series A
Chapter 12 Holy Crap—A Pandemic!
	Prioritizing Mental Well-Being
Chapter 13 The Murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and BLM
	The Talk I Had With My Team
	The Role of Philanthropy in Creating Equity
	Systemic Issues Facing Black-Led Technology Companies
Chapter 14 My Hopes, and Losing an Icon
	The Role Technology Plays
	On Building Generational Wealth
Appendix
Glossary
Rate Sheet
	Resilia’s Investor Deck
Online Resources
About the Author
Index
EULA