SFN150: Owning Your Entrepreneur Status - with Danielle Tate

Danielle Tate is the founder and CEO of MissNowMrs, a multi-million dollar online name change company. As a female founder in her 20s, she noticed that few businesses offered step-by-step advice to smart, but inexperienced entrepreneurial women. This void inspired Danielle to author Elegant Entrepreneur, the female’s founder’s guide to starting and growing your first company.

 

In This Interview You’ll Learn:

• 1:35 - How Danielle went from aspiring cardiologist to launching her first company
• 4:09 - Factors that played a role in Danielle’s leap into entrepreneurship
• 7:54 - How Danielle found and hired her CTO
• 10:45 - How Danielle acquired her first customer
• 14:16 - One way Danielle felt she limited the company’s growth in its first few months of business
• 15:37 - Danielle’s giveaway with David’s Bridal
• 17:35 - What Danielle would go back and do differently
• 18:48 - The importance of finding a mentor
• 19:29 - About the Elegant Entrepreneur and the first few steps of what people should be thinking about when they’re starting a business
• 21:29 - Questions to ask yourself when going through the innovation gauntlet
• 32:30 - About owning your entrepreneur status

 

Show Notes:

• Danielle’s Name Change Company - MissNowMrs.com
• Danielle’s book - ElegantEntrepreneur.co