Kelsey Moreira, founder & fearless leader over at Doughp Cookie Dough. After getting sober in 2015, she came alive again. With her newfound clarity in life she rediscovered her love of baking and took life by the horns! She ditched a 10 year career in product marketing at Intel to follow her cookie dough dream – launching Doughp in 2017. Four years later, they’ve served more than 250,000 spoonlickers and continue shipping thousands of boxes every month!
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Christina Tosi Founder & CEO of Milk Bar
- Sara Blakely
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I think the beginning parts need your own determination that this idea is going to work because there is so many people who will tell you it won’t and that it’s crazy and it’s not a big enough idea and how will it ever be anything? Well, I can’t say that’s when I started Doughp I knew it would be as big as it is today because I almost pooped my pants, I was so excited when we sold…the first 100,000 dollars we hit ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
You are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an… Book by Jen SinceroFavourite Quote:
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“my best advice to other entrepreneurs is to just go do it, stop thinking about it. I think this hesitance or over planning that can happen sometimes where you are spending years and years thinking about what if your what it might be like. And just getting out there and starting something and seeing how it sticks. You can continue to learn and evolve and pull back or push forward with whatever information you start to get but if you don’t start you are working off a very limited set of info to keep working on it so I just encourage entrepreneurs to give it a go”…[Listen for More]
More About Kelsey Moreira:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kelsey Moreira:
- “to the investor side of things. We had an angel investor support us for the first three and a half years here, four years. We are in our series A now. And I now see how much value will come from some of the more strategic investors who are aligned in this industry, have the connections”
- “when you have created a really great brand and a really great product the how to get it out is just someone can do that faster. Someone can help you get the right connections, get the right distribution, get the right coal manufacturer. Like all of these things that are otherwise quite cumbersome to figure out the first time. I think I would have pulled in a little bit earlier doing this into a series A round ”
- “you have to believe more than anyone else literally in the entire world that this thing is going to change everyone’s life. If your thing is going to change the world and if you don’t believe that that’s going to happen it’s going to be very difficult to convince others that it will. But if you are on fire that this is the coolest thing that anyone has ever seen that rubs off and people start to feel that same energy. So, putting that out into the world is very important”
- “I also think as we have spoken about the support and help that you need, hiring for what you suck at is so, so important. Figure out those things that you could learn but you may be don’t love to do them or they’ve been tough for you to learn or would take a lot of your bandwidth to learn and try to hire for it as you can”
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