On the first episode of the Thrive Through Connection Podcast, we welcome Laurel Hess, the CEO and Founder of hampr. Hampr is an on-demand laundry service that will pick up your laundry and return it fresh and folded, right to your front door, within 24 hours. Laurel has raised over $10M for hampr across multiple rounds. She joins us to share her journey and the importance of building genuine relationships with investors.
What You Can Expect to Learn from Laurel
- Why having the right people on your cap table matters
- Tactics for backchanneling and finding warm investor intros
- The key questions she asks during investor conversations
- How she nurtures investors who initially say “no”
- Her approach to managing and interpreting investor feedback
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