Elisabeth Tuttass: Many Ways To Raise Money

VC isn't the only way to fund a business.

Here are some alternative funding options and resources:

— Elisabeth Tuttass 🇰🇷🇩🇪 (@mstuttass) June 16, 2022

1. If you startup earns under $3K a month, look into business credit cards, personal loans, and crowdfunding for funding options.

— Elisabeth Tuttass 🇰🇷🇩🇪 (@mstuttass) June 16, 2022

2. Regarding crowdfunding, you can start with @Kickstarter, @IFundWomen (for female founders), or @Wefunder.

— Elisabeth Tuttass 🇰🇷🇩🇪 (@mstuttass) June 16, 2022

3. If you make $3K+ a month in sales and are on track to reach six figures a year, look into pitch competitions, government contracts and small-business loans.

— Elisabeth Tuttass 🇰🇷🇩🇪 (@mstuttass) June 16, 2022

4. Regarding pitch competitions, check out @BGirlVentures, who provide Black/Brown woman-identifying founders access to community and capital.

If you are based in Austin, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, LA, or Miami, you should def apply to pitch: https://t.co/gXJcqIRCq7

— Elisabeth Tuttass 🇰🇷🇩🇪 (@mstuttass) June 16, 2022

5. Adding a few other pitch competitions you can apply to:

Entrepreneurship World Cup: One of the biggest pitch competitions, featuring founders from over 200. Apply by July 10. https://t.co/W2ZzB9Dfua

— Elisabeth Tuttass 🇰🇷🇩🇪 (@mstuttass) June 16, 2022

6. Black Ambition Prize: Provides a platform for Black + Latinx founders, students & alumni of Historically Black Colleges and Universities access to growth capital, pitch feedback, and mentorship.

Apply by June 20. https://t.co/Kvne8ONfvY

— Elisabeth Tuttass 🇰🇷🇩🇪 (@mstuttass) June 16, 2022

7. If you are interested in grants, my #1 recommendation is @HelloAlice which has so many incredible grant opportunities on their website. They're awesome.

— Elisabeth Tuttass 🇰🇷🇩🇪 (@mstuttass) June 16, 2022

8. If you earn $9K+ a month in sales, you can look for angel investors as an alternative for VC funding.

You can find some angel investors by looking on @AngelList, attending irl networking events, and utilizing Twitter!

— Elisabeth Tuttass 🇰🇷🇩🇪 (@mstuttass) June 16, 2022

9. Check out this article for more tips and insights: https://t.co/VAL7obwXXH

— Elisabeth Tuttass 🇰🇷🇩🇪 (@mstuttass) June 16, 2022

10. Lastly, my favorite resource of all is @GRID110. Go follow them (I might be biased). We tweet out daily tips and resources for founders and small business owners. 💛

— Elisabeth Tuttass 🇰🇷🇩🇪 (@mstuttass) June 16, 2022

11: VC, Russia

@nic_detommaso @OfficialBBrooks @lolitataub @galeforceVC @dunkhippo33 @MacConwell Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @katelin_cruse @mercebent @jslishi @JadynBryden @sarahmlvn

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022

@NafisaIstami @sarah__lamont @miaannguyen @jackmmcclelland @NickFSimmons @_johnsonator @emilyhxrrera @paigefinnn @dorian_mccorey @zehranaqvi_ Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022

Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @theevanchen @alexchungtweets @ganeumann @Jai__Malik @sullydoesitall @CorinneMRiley @mayafrai @christinkers @dazayah @ben_grosse @DarrelFrater

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022

Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @godwinhschan @daniellebgraham @MacConwell @paigefinnn @jslishi @davegoldblatt @vibe_cap @gkm1 @MacConwell @lolitataub @BMagistretti @zehranaqvi_

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022

Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @mariarotilu @straighttalkeva @VivekKri @ReddyRima @zaydsyedali @JSNovaVC @kathryneallegra @nic_detommaso @rtenbrink1 @HannahGreyVC @WillowGrowth

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022

Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @MacConwell @lolitataub @myfriendjanine @OfficialBBrooks @DrJoyIppolito @iamnancyat @modelvc @meganbytes94 @MoniqueWoodard @tristanwalker

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022

Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @MacConwell @nic_detommaso @meaganloyst @kyanekassiri @cristina_laki @MacConwell @lilylyman @naayl__ @sujude @abbsthemighty

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022

Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @meaganloyst @miamishor @PozoFrankie @vaneezeh_s @emilyhxrrera @ericzhu105 @Zecca_Lehn @Dario_barcelona @enzocavalie@rayn_ong @NasirQadree @MacConwell

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022

Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @eleonorejarry @markellbaldwin @anneleeskates @darian314 @sorayadarabi @marinanicolah @EzraMoGee @HaleyKwaitZollo @emmamulticloud

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022

Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @itsmeeraclark @udhav_goenka @nanli @AGoulburn @zavaindar @JamesBarlia @WojtekWal @MeganMarieCain_ @emfritze @jaked_harris @mollywood @rypan

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022

Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @MichelleVolz @jess_mulvihill @emilyhxrrera

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022

First day in SF and I got judged for saying a16-“ZED”

— Jen Zhang (@jenniferjyzhang) June 8, 2022

I can teach remotely. Will appear by video feed. Let's talk details over email. My first name at Gmail.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022

Mind blowing how far @prtyDAO has come.

It all began with a tweet, leading to a @viamirror crowdfund, a community-built MVP, and one of the most viral happenings of NFT summer.

Humbled to play a small early role and excited to see the team take it to the next level! https://t.co/N0ymDa6sR5

— d.mirror.xyz 🪞 (@Iiterature) June 9, 2022

my mom just ended my life pic.twitter.com/FQKnc3B0w4

— Roshan Patel (@roshanpateI) June 9, 2022

This is universal. #feelbetter #feelthelove

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022

Your first 50 customers need to be your first 50 advocates. They are royalty; treat them as such.

— Brian C. Long (@BrianCLong) June 9, 2022

Leadership is having the courage to consistently take actions that benefit others.

— Jacob Espinoza (@MrJacobEspi) June 9, 2022

the venture industry could use a little more curiosity, a little more punk, and a lot more diversity

— Sarah Guo 🌱 (@saranormous) June 9, 2022

i am worthless intellectually unless i spend 2 hours a day walking

— Will Manidis (@WillManidis) June 9, 2022

live footage of Twitter providing @elonmusk its raw data feed of 500m+ daily tweets pic.twitter.com/lyZPvuegAJ

— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) June 8, 2022

If the average length of a tweet (minus headers) is ~100 bytes of text, that’s only 50GB. You could fit it on a USB stick.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2022

Putin has never pretended, not really. He lies all the time, but his intent to destroy Ukrainian statehood has been clear for 15 years. That Macron and others still want to negotiate with Putin when those are his terms is obscene. https://t.co/AffTGJ7KKl

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) June 9, 2022

news about Black folks starting their own funds, writing best selling books about startups, and raising millions of dollars in Series A rounds consuming my feed are the exact reason why i love this platform 😍

— Steph G. ☁️ (@Steph_Gaither) June 8, 2022

Obama White House? I was his first full time volunteer in all of NYC. #nowyouknow

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022

Super Angel Steph ------ Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022

Obama White House? I was his first full time volunteer in all of NYC. #nowyouknow

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022

The company listens to employees, takes advantage of digital transformation, and taps its own data for insights.https://t.co/Wm1LS1VKrC

— MIT Sloan School of Management (@MITSloan) June 9, 2022

We all saw the impact of disinformation run rampant in the violent attack against America on January 6th.

Power-hungry politicians want us to "move on." Trump Republicans betrayed their oath office.

We want accountability. #Jan6Justice pic.twitter.com/H40KmrIToa

— Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 (@jilevin) June 9, 2022

5/ When he was at Bitcoin Magazine, Vitalik worked out of our office in Dec 2013. I remember him talking about early smart contract concepts. We made him an offer to be an intern at Ripple but couldn’t get the Visa sorted out, and he’d later speak at our first Swell conference. pic.twitter.com/aN4u3QBcsf

— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022

Offered an internship to Vitalik? Ha!

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022

6/ 2013 - we piloted RipplePay, a functional credit card where you could use XRP to make everyday purchases, using the XRPL DEX to convert any currency in your XRPL wallet into USD. Unfortunately, no card network was willing to come within a 10-foot pole of crypto at the time. pic.twitter.com/2sy5cKTK9i

— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022

@ashgoblue You team up with me now, and I will topple Putin by Christmas. Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022

5/8/23 Update: Goshen (NY) puts Third World corruption to shame, thanks to greedy, corrupt, unethical lawyers like Andra Dumais. ..... I toppled a Third World dictator and German Radio called me Robin Hood On The Internet. I am not going to get intimidated by some small-town racist. Andrea Dumais is a small-town racist. ....... You are treating me worse than the people 2,000 years ago.