Money Matters

He used to say yes to $200 in free clothes because he didn't know what to charge. Now a single TikTok campaign starts at $8,000. Here's how Topher Griffin learned to stop underselling himself and built a career nobody handed him.

Every free funding source I've found for US Founders (and how we got $250K from New York State without giving up equity)

She was making nearly $290K as one of the youngest managers at BCG. Then she left. Her first creator income? $100 per post. Here’s how Kelly Sun turned that leap into a 5-figure content business.

THIS WEEK'S DROP: What does a day in the life of a drag queen look like? Watch to see Aleksandra sit down with Jazmine in the middle of NYC Fashion Week and ask her all the questions you've always been curious about.

She arrived at college with $3,000 saved. By Thanksgiving, it was basically gone. Blowouts, coffee, nails, Ubers, and social plans added up to $1,100 a month. Here’s how that wake-up call eventually led Lexi Ward to build Campus Collective.

THIS WEEK'S DROP: What's the reality of becoming a filmmaker? Watch to see Aleksandra sit down with her good friend Skylar to ask all the questions you've always been curious about.

When I first started fundraising for our first round at Frich - I didn’t know a single investor. People kept telling us to go to wealthy “friends and family” for first easy checks but we didn’t know anyone like that. I went through a lot of trial and error to create this playbook detailing how we raised $3.3M from leading VC-s and angels starting literally from no investor connections.