Build profitable STARTUP in your 20s
Build profitable STARTUP in your 20s
Welcome back to another exciting episode of The Mayank Show. Joining us today is a special friend, Blake Wood (@blakeawood), an expert in FinTech world, previously Founder of APay Financial a company that helps United States students to better manage paying their Loans and he
's currently a Product Manager @ Ramsey Solutions(the company that acquired Blake's product) leading a team that works on a Budgeting App. Blake is a true entrepreneur and helps the community by sharing his knowledge and experiences on Twitter. Today we discussed about Blake's professional experiences, his entrepreneurial journey so far, perspective on fund raising, bootstrap model and how someone can become an Entrepreneur irrespective of whatever field they are currently into.
Blake Wood in conversation with Mayank Gupta.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Highlights
00:00:40 Intro
00:01:20 Blake's journey
00:02:50 How to convert ideas to reality
00:07:02 How to get Angel investment
00:10:05 What is Angel investing
00:11:55 How APay solves the student loans problem
00:15:10 Why took an exit from your company APay Financial
00:18:32 What money you got out of acquisition
00:20:00 What's Compound Journal App
00:23:25 How did you select your next idea
00:25:10 What are the traits of good Entrepreneur
00:31:15 What to find Product Market Fit
00:35:04 Investor Money vs Bootstrapped Startup
00:39:35 Unit economics of the business
00:42:22 Right time to raise funding round
00:44:55 Can CAC be tackled through Social Media Leverage
00:48:45 If not Entrepreneurship then WHAT ?
00:51:00 Outro