Aug. 14, 2020

Fundraising after two exits - Christopher Hussain about his lessons learned from previous fundraising experiences.

Fundraising after two exits - Christopher Hussain about his lessons learned from previous fundraising experiences.

Christopher Hussain, the Co-Founder and CEO at RealKey in this episode talks about what he learned from his past fundraising experiences and how it affected his approach of raising money for his current company - RealKey. We also discussed what should early stage founders do to raise money now and who should consider accelerators (hint: pretty much anyone early stage).

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Show Notes
Guest Info

Christopher's email: Christopher@realkey.com

RealKey: https://www.realkey.com/

Office hours with Make it Studio: https://make-studios.typeform.com/to/bUvZoSwl (it's extremely helpful, trust me).

Christopher Hussain

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