This entrepreneur went from 50 investor rejections to $200 million in sales:
, he describes first hand how it can be a bumpy road, but also how things can scale far beyond what you expected if you are willing to fail and bring in others to share the journey with.Nick Green went to Harvard. He thought he would end up being a lawyer. Maybe an investment banker. Instead, his freshman year side gig took him down a completely different path.
As simple as the success story sounds now, he says “The truth is, I feel like I failed my way to success in many ways in that business.” He says the classroom doesn't translate at all into what it takes to be a really scrappy entrepreneur. They raised their first eight million dollars from their own fans instead. Piece by piece in $25,000 plus installments.
There's always this debate as to whether good customers are born or made, maybe it's both. Nick says they haven’t always got it right. He admits “I know there were times in the heady early days where we would bring someone in with a really deep discounted offer.
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