388 | Leveraging Funding to Expand Your Business with Zeba Parkar, Treleaf

Proof to Product · Apr 8, 2025 · 31m

Let's talk money. Money is a necessity in business, but it can also be a pain point, particularly for product-based business owners because our investments, overhead, and risks are generally heightened compared to service-based businesses.

We not only need to make money, but we also need to spend money for future expansion and growth. But where does that money come from? How are people doing this? We get this question a lot when we talk with our students.

Many brands in our industry are self-funded, meaning that they use their own money for start-up costs and then they reinvest those revenues…