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This Small Business Founder Sold Her Own Company Stock to Fund Her New Venture

If there is a hot topic when it comes to starting a business, it's one surrounding funding. Without money, there's no business. So sourcing funds is one of the first steps any founder considers taking. Aasiyah Abdulsalam knows that path all too well, having been an entrepreneur out of college. But when she had a new business idea that she felt more passionate towards, she figured out an easier way to jumpstart her business. What did she do? She sold the majority of her company stock to launch The Renatural.

Some might say Abdulsalam is fearless and others might call her crazy, because where is the assurance that investing your money in a new business will have a good return? But she figured out how to have a steady growth trajectory for a now successful business. Hear what steps she took to have a positive outcome in her plan, from her experiences of selling stock to growing a new business.

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