This Week in Startups • E1015: Open Office Hours LIVE! Jason helps founders with their biggest challenges: gaining interest from investors, scaling while bootstrapping in a niche market, automating operations tasks, acquiring national customers & focusing on customers in the cannabis compliance space @ WSGR • Listen on Fountain
E1015: Open Office Hours LIVE! Jason helps founders with their biggest challenges: gaining interest from investors, scaling while bootstrapping in a niche market, automating operations tasks, acquiring national customers & focusing on customers in the cannabis compliance space @ WSGR
E1015: Open Office Hours LIVE! Jason helps founders with their biggest challenges: gaining interest from investors, scaling while bootstrapping in a niche market, automating operations tasks, acquiring national customers & focusing on customers in the cannabis compliance space @ WSGR
0:47 Jason intros Open Office Hours
2:15 Trevor from Moovin (on-demand software to rent professional furniture) asks Jason to share some hacks on how to gain interest from investors
18:31 Jelica from Saddle Shoppe (e-commerce luxury equestrian clothing/gear) asks Jason best practices on scaling while bootstrapping in a niche market
34:49 Antonio from Youcanevent (event services marketplace) asks Jason what and how to automate operations tasks
44:44 Ossie from PICKL (B2B product/consumer data platform) asks Jason about acquiring national customers outside of California
55:57 Jontae from NatureTrak (compliance platform connecting Cannabis companies and banks) asks Jason about staying focused on different customers in a two-sided marketplace
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