Resilient: How to Overcome Anything and Build a Million Dollar Business With or Without Capital

Cover
Title page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Coming From Where I’m From
	Triple Threat
Chapter 2 The Difference
	Focus
Chapter 3 Bootstrapping versus Raising Capital
	Professional Services to Startup
	On the Bootstrapping Process
	Repeatable and Predictable Revenue, Regardless
	Money Can’t Be the Only Motivation
Chapter 4 Idea to Product: Building a Startup
	Starting With Funding
	Starting Without Funding
	What Not to Do When Starting a Company
	You’ll Never Get Going Unless . . .
Chapter 5 Building a Team
	Hiring and Finding Freelancers and Others
	Out of the Gate
	Contingency versus Retained Recruiters
	Get Out of the Way
Chapter 6 I Hear You, But I Need Capital
	Financing Terminology
	Preparing to Raise
	What Legal Documents Should I Use?
Chapter 7 Raising a Pre-Seed $400,000
	Pre-Seed, Better Known as a Friends-and-Family Round
	The Pitch
Chapter 8 Accelerators and Pitch Competitions? Bang or Bust
Chapter 9 Raising My Seed Round
Chapter 10 Product Market Fit
	Sales: Remember Predictable, Repeatable Revenue?
Chapter 11 Raising a Series A
Chapter 12 Holy Crap—A Pandemic!
	Prioritizing Mental Well-Being
Chapter 13 The Murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and BLM
	The Talk I Had With My Team
	The Role of Philanthropy in Creating Equity
	Systemic Issues Facing Black-Led Technology Companies
Chapter 14 My Hopes, and Losing an Icon
	The Role Technology Plays
	On Building Generational Wealth
Appendix
Glossary
Rate Sheet
	Resilia’s Investor Deck
Online Resources
About the Author
Index
EULA