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Founder Uncovered · Sam Gibson, Hadron Energy

From $2K to $1M Checks

“The first investment I ever received was a $2,000 check. Most recently, we received a million dollar check.”

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And what was the like for you on your side? Yeah, so the first round was very much the friends and family, which is where I always recommend starting. And I know I think you offer a similar point of view on that, rather than going the venture capital route. Because this, I think really streamlines the access, you know, your friends and family

know you, and even just past colleagues, there's a lot of ways to raise early capital. My target in the early days was to raise 500,000. It took much, much longer than I thought it was going to take. But we got it done. I don't recall the exact timeline that it

took. But then after that, we started, as you were mentioning, started receiving much larger investments. We would get

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