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Misfit Minute Weekly - How to Get Funded with VenturX CEO, Sydney Wong
This week's Misfit Minute is full of great success advice and...
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June 8th, 2018
Volume 3, Issue 23 |
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Welcome to the Misfit Minute!
This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Sydney Wong.
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Sydney is the founder and CEO of VenturX. VenturX is a platform that prepares startups for funding. She bought a one way ticket to Silicon Valley with no job, no VISA, and no place to live.
She attended every MeetUp event, visited the Yahoo campus, and met as many people in different sectors as possible. She met young, confident entrepreneurs who struggled through many obstacles to get to where they needed to be in order to compete. She found that every Uber driver, every dog walker on WAG, and every house cleaner on TaskRabbit knew the direction they wanted to go; they didn’t shy from sharing their ambitions to strangers.
Along the way, though, something changed. She found she had the opportunity to see people and places that others overlooked for decades. As Sydney says , “The startup industry is like a battlefield with few winners but the opportunity I saw and built my company mission around was “What would it take to produce more winners?” That is how VenturX was born.
Starting a business is hard enough. Getting the funding to help you grow and succeed is even harder. I’ve asked Sydney on to give you the best advice she’s learned on how to navigate the startup funding jungle.
Click Here to Listen to How to Get Funded with VenturX CEO, Sydney Wong
Connect with Sydney:
www.VenturX.ca
Misfit Nation, Sydney is giving you 2 months of unlimited access to the VenturX platform for FREE! Just use the promo code: MISFIT at sign up!
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Funding is about timing as much as it about money. Ask yourself, Is this the right for this new character (investor) to come into my story? |
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Make an impact by asking others, “How can I help you?”
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It’s not about how often your fall, it is about how quickly you get back up. Speed is your advantage as a startup – use it.
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From the Misfit Blog, "The 40 + 1 Rule for Success" |
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Have you ever heard of the 40% rule?
The rule was made famous by the Navy SEALS ans states that "When your mind is telling you you're done, you're really only 40 percent done." When you think you are absolutely exhausted - you still have 40% left.
I have used the rule numerous times throughout my life to push myself when my mind was telling me to stop. It works. And when you do use it to bust through a mental limit, you increase your capabilities and the level at which you can perform.
But, over the years, I built upon the rule to make it even more powerful. I call it the 40 + 1 Rule.
Click Here to Read the Full Post
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Quote of the Week
"One day baby, we'll be old,
Oh baby, we'll be old,
And think of all the stories that we could have told."
- One Day/Reckoning Song by Asaf Avidan
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