Ep 8: How to Raise Funding For Your Startup with Stephanie Lampkin, Founder and CEO of Blendoor

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How did the product of a once homeless single mother become the Founder and CEO of a rising startup?</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">This week’s guest, Stephanie Lampkin, shares how an influential aunt led her to coding at a young age, setting the stage for her to graduate from Stanford and MIT Sloan.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Later, a surprise rejection from Google would lead her to found Blendoor, a mobile job matching app that hides candidate name and photo to circumvent unconscious bias and facilitate diversity recruiting in tech companies. Blendoor’s goal is to highlight the information that's most relevant to a candidate being a "good fit" independent of race, gender, military history or sexual orientation.</span></p> <p>In this this episode, Stephanie breaks down:</p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she determined what kind of business structure to set up</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The art of the “pitch”</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she approaches pitching on stage vs pitching for investors</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to build a team as an early stage company</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she keeps the company lean and financially sustains herself as an entrepreneur</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Find out about Stephanie’s experience founding not one, but two startups and her journey to Silicon Valley in this episode.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links mentioned in this episode</span></p> <p><a href="http://blendoor.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Blendoor</span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTUnUibmvco"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">This is your day YouTube video</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Podcast Details</span></p> <p><a