Aaron Ross

Aaron Ross

Finance & Accounting Major

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I'm a Finance & Accounting student at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, building toward a career in investment banking with a focus on Technology, Media & Telecom. My path here has been hands-on. I founded Asorti, an automated scheduling platform that reached over 590,000 people and grew to 6,000+ users across 100 countries, an experience that taught me how to build, ship, and scale something from nothing, and how to make decisions when there's no playbook to follow

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If entrepreneurship was a game, what would it be?

Building a startup means that you make decisions, take risks, learn from mistakes, change your strategy and try to think a few moves ahead.

For me, it would be chess.

💸 When is a product/maker ready to raise money?

At what point does a product become ready to talk to investors?

When you have users?
Revenue?
A clear business model?
A certain number of people using it?

Especially for solo or small-team makers, it feels twice as hard to reach all of these points alone - while continuing to build the product without income and bootstrapping everything.

At some point, it starts to feel like an infinite loop:

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