TY - BOOK AU - Finney,Kathryn A. TI - Build the damn thing: how to start a successful business if you're not a rich white guy SN - 9780593329269 (hardcover) AV - HD 62.5 F514b 2022 U1 - 658.1/1 PY - 2022/// CY - [New York] PB - Portfolio/Penguin KW - New business enterprises KW - Management KW - Nuevas empresas comerciales KW - Administración KW - Minority business enterprises KW - Women-owned business enterprises KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Emprendimiento KW - Success in business KW - Éxito en los negocios N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "An indispensable guide to building a startup and breaking down the barriers for diverse entrepreneurs from the visionary venture capitalist and pioneering entrepreneur Kathryn Finney. Build the Damn Thing is a hard-won, battle-tested guide for every entrepreneur who the establishment has left out. Finney, an investor and startup champion, explains how to build a business from the ground up, from developing a business plan to finding investors, growing a team, and refining a product. Finney empowers entrepreneurs to take advantage of their unique networks and resources; arms readers with responses to investors who say, "great pitch but I just don't do Black women"; and inspires them to overcome naysayers while remaining "100% That B*tch." Don't wait for the system to let you in-break down the door and build your damn thing. For all the Builders striving to build their businesses in a world that has overlooked and underestimated them: this is the essential guide to knowing, breaking, remaking and building your own rules of entrepreneurship in a startup and investing world designed for and by the "Entitleds.""-- ER -