Navigating the Funding Maze: How to Raise Money for Your Business

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, T.A. McCann shares his entrepreneurial journey and insights into the world of startups. T.A. McCann is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and led successful companies such as Senosis and Gist. He is also an active angel investor and an adjunct professor at the University of Washington Foster School of Business.

During our conversation, T.A. McCann dives into various topics, including the challenges of building and scaling a startup, the importance of quantified health ideas and investments, and the lessons he learned from his experience as a professional sailor. We explore the creative process behind entrepreneurship, the role of technology and innovation, and the impact of collaboration and community in the startup ecosystem.

Some highlights we explore:

T.A. McCann's journey from professional sailor to successful entrepreneur
The key factors that contribute to startup success
The role of marketing analytics in driving business growth
The importance of understanding user needs and feedback
Lessons learned from T.A. McCann's experience in the America's Cups and the Whitbread Round the World race

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0:00.0	They never asked for money. So they're like, oh, I talked to Chase Jarvis and he said he was really
0:04.5	interested in my thing. Did you ask Chase for money? Did, yeah, like, hey, if I build this,
0:09.6	will you pay me? Yeah. And how much specifically, will you pay me $10, $100, $1,000, $10,000?
0:16.0	So they first don't want to ask for money because most people don't want to pay for anything. And then second of all, they don't ask for the specific amount of money, therefore backing into the value they might deliver.
0:25.6	Today's conversation is long overdue.
0:28.7	In short, I long ago realized that so many creators and entrepreneurs have little knowledge about how if and when to use other people's money.
0:39.1	That would be investment and or loans or whatever to grow their businesses.
0:43.5	That's one of the reasons I decided to have one of my close friends and business mentors on
0:48.5	the show today.
0:50.2	He has done so many things for me, so much support over the years, including like whiteboarding, the ideas for starting Creative Live way before it was a company.
1:00.6	He also helped me get my best camera app, that photo app that I made, which was app of the year in the Apple store.
1:06.8	He helped me get that off the ground.
1:08.3	And he's helped me become a better entrepreneur and an investor over the past decade.
1:13.2	His name is T.A. McCann, T.A. period A. Period McAnne. That's right. T.A. is a serial entrepreneur. He has sold companies to Google and Blackberry, among others.
1:24.3	And prior to those exits, he was an entrepreneur at residence for Microsoft
1:28.1	billionaire Paul Allen. Before all that, he held senior roles at Microsoft, where he led their
1:33.7	email and mobile services divisions. Yeah, he has got the resume, right? Today, he is a managing
1:41.8	director at Pioneer Square Labs, which is an amazing startup studio based here in Seattle and a venture capital fund.
1:48.6	It's focused on building amazing businesses that drive impact.
1:52.2	In addition to all this stuff, he's an adjunct professor at the University of Washington Foster School of Business here in Seattle.
1:58.7	He's an active tech star's mentor.
2:02.1	And he's even,
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