New start-up? No money? No problem!
summary
Tatum Games builds a collaborative collectible card game called Heroes vs. Villains and grows from two founders to a 20-person team while hitting roughly $300k in recent uptake. Early funding comes from networking — a friend invests $50,000 — and a handful of unpaid interns (paid in Flamin Hot Cheetos) lead to the next round. A Kickstarter attempt fails because the product is too raw and requires months of prep and dozens of assets, so accelerators, angels and friends are emphasized instead.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:30Meet Leo Tatum
- 1:05Types of Capital
- 2:17Growth Capital
- 2:38Finding the money
- 5:15Angel investors
- 6:06Networking
- 6:58Finding angels
- 7:23Getting funding
- 9:23Incubators and accelerators
- 10:41Crowdfunding
- 11:58Conclusion
- 13:18Questions
- 14:19Pitfalls
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