Credibility

Let me start with why I can guide you through fundraising: I've lived both ends of it. At 25, I quit a high-paying job at Deloitte and moved to the beach to build a social-enterprise sunglasses company. I raised $40K from friends and family that first year, spent a January pitching investors and retailers in California, and the next spring ran a crowdfunding campaign that raised $10K in under 36 hours. From there, I secured a lead investor from Facebook for our next round, sold sunglasses directly to the CEO of Under Armour, signed a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback