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We're heading into the start of the academic year where many students want to start their own business while taking classes. Building a startup within a university is actually a great time to do it – you have stability from classes and lifestyle, plus lots of people to bounce ideas off of quickly.

But your time as a student entrepreneur is extremely limited, especially if you're an MBA student with two years max. Two years might feel like forever right now, but that's nothing in the grand scheme of building a business.

How do I know this? My full-time job is leading student entrepreneurship at Yale, and as a creator, I've developed The Bootstrapped Report where I've analyzed 50+ bootstrapped businesses that have grown past $250,000 in annual revenue. It takes on average two and a half years to reach that mark.

In this video, I'll cover:

- The biggest traps for student entrepreneurs
- How to overcome the most common challenges
- How to make the most of university resources that you only have access to as a student founder

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Full Deep Dive: https://www.jointhequarter.com/blog/hoomhouse

In 2020, raising money was easier than ever before, and yet, Bryce Kaiser and his wife Lauren did something that was a bit crazy.

They said no to all of it.

While everyone was raising money because it was "free money" during the COVID boom, the HoomHouse founders deliberately chose to stay bootstrapped.

Then on top of that, they walked away from maybe the hottest market in the entire world at the time: telehealth.

And instead they just doubled down on one simple growth strategy.

Three years later it all worked out. They sold the company on their own terms.

In this deep dive I break down with Bryce, his simple approach to building a marketplace business, why saying no to VCs was actually the smartest move they ever made, and the surprisingly simple approach that made their exit possible.

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Read the full deep dive: https://www.jointhequarter.com/blog/processdriven
Check out ProcessDriven: https://processdriven.co

By saying it's my MBA business, I basically gave myself permission for the first three years to just focus on learning and getting paid anything to learn is great when you compare it to an MBA where you're paying to learn."
That's Layla Pomper the founder of ProcessDriven, a company that helps small teams clean up their operations so they can turn their messy chaos into control.

Layla has bootstrapped ProcessDriven to over $250,000 in annual revenue and over 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. But here's the thing - ProcessDriven was never supposed to be like this.

It was supposed to be just a business that she would run for maybe two or three years. Well, seven years later, and Layla still hasn't applied for a new job.

In this deep dive, we'll explore the mindset that helped Layla grow ProcessDriven initially, the three different chapters or pivots of ProcessDriven, and how Layla has used YouTube to grow ProcessDriven to where it is today.