{"id":142,"date":"2016-07-20T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T16:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sidehustlepro.co\/?p=142"},"modified":"2023-11-14T21:33:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T02:33:14","slug":"stephanielampkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidehustlepro.co\/stephanielampkin\/","title":{"rendered":"8: How To Raise Funding For Your Startup with Stephanie Lampkin, Founder and CEO of Blendoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/sidehustlepro.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Stephanie-Lampkin-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Lampkin Side Hustle Pro\" class=\"wp-image-143\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-fusebox-player-single\"><script data-type=\"track\" data-hash=\"Zwg0pOdgzq\" data-track=\"8\" src=\"https:\/\/app.fusebox.fm\/embed\/player.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>How did the product of a once homeless single mother become the Founder and CEO of a rising startup? Find out on this week\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week\u2019s guest, <strong>Stephanie Lampkin<\/strong>, 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.\u00a0Later, 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\u2019s goal is to highlight the information that&#8217;s most relevant to a candidate being a &#8220;good fit&#8221; independent of race, gender, military history or sexual orientation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this this episode, Stephanie breaks down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How she determined what kind of business structure to set up<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The art of the \u201cpitch\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How she approaches pitching on stage vs pitching for investors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How to build a team as an early stage company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How she keeps the company lean and financially sustains herself as an entrepreneur<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out about Stephanie\u2019s experience founding not one, but two startups and her journey to Silicon Valley in this episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links mentioned in this episode:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blendoor.com\" target=\"_blank\">Blendoor<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UTUnUibmvco\" target=\"_blank\">This is your day YouTube video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did the product of a once homeless single mother become the Founder and CEO of a rising startup? Find out on this week\u2019s episode. This week\u2019s 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.\u00a0Later, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spt_transcript":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[49,50,51,8,52,53],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-blendoor","tag-google","tag-mit-sloan","tag-side-hustle-pro","tag-silicon-valley","tag-stephanie-lampkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidehustlepro.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidehustlepro.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidehustlepro.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidehustlepro.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidehustlepro.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sidehustlepro.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8660,"href":"https:\/\/sidehustlepro.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/8660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidehustlepro.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidehustlepro.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidehustlepro.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidehustlepro.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}