What Mark Cuban's money actually bought them

Lisa Bradley could not get hired. She was a military spouse on her fourth move, and she watched employers put her resume at the bottom of the pile. So she and fellow Army spouse Cameron Cruse started a handbag company in an unfinished attic with $2,100 and two sewing machines. She tells Elizabeth Gore what Mark Cuban's investment actually bought them, how she learned to stop waiting for someone more experienced to make the hard calls, and why her team once worked with the lights off. Featuring Lisa Bradley, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, R. Riveter Elizabeth Gore, Co-Founder and President, Hello Alice Presented by Block Advisors, built by H&R Block. Timestamps 0:00 Tax break: grant money open now for military spouse businesses 1:22 Meet Lisa Bradley of R. Riveter 2:30 Fifteen moves, and what the job market did with her resume 3:28 An attic, $2,100, and a business model borrowed from FedEx 4:29 Why a handbag was the product that could carry the story 5:51 Who Rosie the Riveter actually was 7:05 150,000 bags and $33 million in lifetime sales 7:48 Going on Shark Tank when it could have ended the company 8:28 What Mark Cuban gave them besides money 9:22 Letting go of the original idea 10:22 Rightsizing after the e-commerce bubble 10:58 Black Friday 2023, and losing their own marketing list 11:47 The building turned out to be structurally unsound 12:10 She stopped looking for someone more senior to decide 12:56 Her team worked with the lights off 13:50 The word dependent, and what it does to identity 15:07 How the riveters find each other 16:08 Her dad made her run QuickBooks at 13 16:37 The dirty unicorn: she second guessed her own gut 17:31 Find a company your own size, not a giant mentor 18:42 The heirloom program, and sending in your own material 19:21 Opportunity, and the riveter number stamped on every part 20:27 Well behaved women rarely make history #RRiveter #militaryspouse #madeinusa #founderstory #TheBigIdea #YahooFinance == AlphaSpace by Yahoo Finance: A Professional-Grade Investment Platform Built for Everyday Investors. 👉 https://finance.yahoo.com/about/promos/gold/alphaspace?ncid=100003571

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