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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Best Advice For Early Stage Entrepreneurs | Interview With Michele Romanow, Co-Founder & President, Clearco

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Michele Romanow, Co-Founder & President of Clearco, sits down to discuss: [1:25] - Why she didn’t feel comfortable as the youngest (and “poorest”) cast member on Dragon’s Den Canada [5:04] - How Clearco is able to invest $10 million in a company without meeting the founder [5:47] - Why the biases that occur in venture funding are actually a “giant opportunity” [10:14] - How entrepreneurs can find confidence and motivation from being underestimated by others Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

It is so easy, David, and I'm sure you've seen this

0:02.3

to just overthink any business, to plan, to test,

0:06.1

to have the idea, you know, I hear people

0:08.4

on the show all the time, you know,

0:09.5

like I've been thinking about this for 10 years,

0:10.7

and I'm like, what, have you bloodied been doing?

0:14.4

This is the playbook.

0:15.8

I have Michelle Romano,

0:18.2

co-founder and president of Clearco.

0:20.7

We got a lot of O's.

0:22.1

Welcome to the playbook, Michelle, how are you?

0:25.7

I'm great, how are you, David?

0:27.6

I am extremely well.

0:29.0

And also extremely curious about Clearco.

0:34.6

You know, I've been in the landscape of funding

0:37.8

and investment for so many years,

0:39.5

and I'm always just amazed how the obvious isn't so obvious,

0:44.8

and how great companies and great founders

0:47.2

like yourself see through the normal.

0:52.5

Conformity seems so easy, especially in this landscape,

0:56.4

and as it's evolved, this new model of funding has come about.

1:01.4

So let's start with, you know, what is that model

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