Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business If You're Not a Rich White Guy

By Kathryn Finney

Book Overview

An indispensable guide to building a startup and breaking down the barriers for diverse entrepreneurs from the visionary venture capitalist and pioneering entrepreneur Kathryn Finney.

Build the Damn Thing is a hard-won, battle-tested guide for every entrepreneur who the establishment has left out. Finney, an investor and startup champion, explains how to build a business from the ground up, from developing a business plan to finding investors, growing a team, and refining a product. Finney empowers entrepreneurs to take advantage of their unique networks and resources; arms readers with responses to investors who say, "great pitch but I just don't do Black women"; and inspires them to overcome naysayers while remaining "100% That B*tch."

Don't wait for the system to let you in--break down the door and build your damn thing. For all the Builders striving to build their businesses in a world that has overlooked and underestimated them: this is the essential guide to knowing, breaking, remaking and building your own rules of entrepreneurship in a startup and investing world designed for and by the "Entitleds."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593329260
• ISBN13: 9780593329269
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Portfolio
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"