Dan Schiffman founded his first tech startup at 15, almost 25 years ago.

Since then, he has built a playbook that covers every stage of the founder journey: bootstrapping an e-commerce startup to a $1 million exit, co-founding a VC-backed trailblazer (TVision) that has raised close to $60 million, and leading the transformation of another business from $50 million to $250 million in just 18 months.

In this episode, Dan breaks down the lessons from his unique career. He shares the strategic differences between bootstrapping and raising venture capital, his counter-intuitive rules for building a company that’s destined for a major exit, and his definition of the one word that matters most in entrepreneurship: "Hustle."

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