How do you think leaders can lean into funding their vision?
What did it take for you guys to actually get this off
the ground and then not even that,
to be where you are right now from here to Mexico
and moving forward?
Tell me more about how do you think leaders can
lean into funding their vision from your examples?
Yeah, I think funding is most underrated part
of the whole entrepreneurship journey, I feel.
There are many ways to do a business, right?
Small businesses are very different.
It's more about you having initial capital
or your ability to take some loan or risk that part.
And then you run into Silicon Valley businesses
or the tech businesses, which are more about having
the bigger vision and your ability to sell the world
and raise initial money to take baby steps towards that.
But what I kind of learned is the whole funding process
or fundraising is very similar to sales.
It's really similar to sales.
In sales, you are selling to a customer.
Here, you are trying to sell it to an investor.
You are trying to convince with a very different agenda,
motives, motivation aspects.
But you need to take time.
You need to separate a good chunk of time into that
and iterate daily.
You get feedback.
You need to update your decks.
You need to update information.
And keep people posted about your progress.
Everyone wants to invest into a story at this stage.
We are in the very early stages.
People are investing into you, your discipline,
your ability to communicate, your understanding
of the problem sector.
Like it's really belief.
Belief is nothing else, right?
Yeah.
Because there are a lot of great ideas.
It's really people who make it execute.
Like, will this person just quit in a year?
He's just going to do a haywire?
Like, how serious is he?
It's like things like that, right?
Just having the continuous thing going, right?
Yeah.
I think that is very critical to fund raising.
And it never ends.
Like, at least in the tech space,
it gets bigger and bigger.
And everything you did previously,
you will learn more now that you are raising more capital.