Ep. 84: How to Start a Start-Up Business, Raising Money and Pitching to Investors, and Being a Co-Founder of a Tech Company ft. Caya, Co-Founder of Slidebean

Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Natalie Barbu

Education, How To, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

I interviewed Caya, he is one of the three co-founders and the CEO of Slidebean. Slidebean is a venture-backed company in New York City and Costa Rica and is a multi-million dollar, profitable tech company that continues to expand rapidly. We talk about becoming an entrepreneur, pillars to a successful startup, what makes a successful pitch deck, and so much more! You will learn so much from this episode and I know you will all be as interested in it as I am! Slidebean Website: https://slidebean.com Slidebean YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/slidebean Slidebean IG: https://www.instagram.com/slidebean/ Where can you find us? Natalie's IG: @nataliebarbu IG: @therealreelpodcast Join the private Facebook Group --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/natalie-barbu4/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.
0:04.0	Hi,
0:05.0	Hi, everybody.
0:07.0	Hi, everybody and welcome back to the podcast it's me Natalie
0:17.0	Barbou and I am so excited to share this episode I interviewed Kaya who is the CEO and one of the co-founder of Slide Bean and if you guys don't know what Slide Bean is I found them on YouTube
0:28.8	but they are actually a company that creates powerful presentations. They are a pitch deck design
0:35.9	platform for startups and small businesses and they have online presentation tools
0:39.7	that can create professional slides for your business.
0:43.2	So it's really specifically targeting startups
0:45.6	and small businesses, like it says,
0:47.0	where if you need to create a pitch deck,
0:48.5	if you need to create kind of like an onboarding deck,
0:51.2	they're the ones that create this beautiful template for you and the beautiful decks for you to present and that is their company model and he actually found out this model through a pain point that he had from a previous company which we talk all
1:03.9	about in this episode but this one is the episode I've been most excited about
1:07.5	for honestly a very long time because it's something that I'm very very
1:12.0	very interested in.
1:13.0	As you guys know, I do own a small business, but I am looking to get into the startup space.
1:18.0	And in the startup space, I am just, I'm so fascinated about how to get funding, how to raise money, how to build a startup, do you need to raise money?
1:26.3	Like what are the benefits of bootstrapping?
1:28.5	Are incubators really helpful?
1:30.3	You know, all of these things we talk about in this episode and it's something that I wanted to get very specific on I wanted to know details of
1:36.4	Kaya and how he started Slide Bean and how he even started a separate company that ended up failing and then starting Slide Bean.
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