Sashee Chandran, founder and CEO of Tea Drops, worked as a Business Analyst for Fortune 100 brands such as eBay. She always loved to drink tea, but found that she just didn’t have the time to go through the whole process and created her own solution to this problem. Before long she had requests for her product and filed her own patent.

Today, Tea Drops has been featured in Forbes, GMA, and Oprah Magazine leading Sashee to be placed on Inc.’s Female Founders 100 list. 

In this episode, Sashee discusses how she developed such an innovative product idea and the marketing territory that comes along with it. She explains the startup founder learning curve and how you can make adjustments in your pitching and the best strategies to gain investors. 

Check out this episode to hear more about:

• How anyone can (and should!) file a patent
• Why pitch competitions might just be your smartest fundraising strategy
• Why trade shows can be an absolute game changer in a startup’s early stage

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