658.11 FINNEY

xxiii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index.

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."-- Provided by publisher.

New business enterprises -- Management.

Minority business enterprises -- Management.

Women-owned business enterprises -- Management.

Entrepreneurship.

Success in business.

9780593329269 (hardcover)

0593329260 (hardcover)

Online version: Finney, Kathryn. Build the damn thing [New York] : Portfolio/Penguin, [2022] 9780593329276 (DLC) 2021055260.