74: Serial Entrepreneur Dawn Dickson On How to Launch Like a Boss

<h4><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today on the show, we have a real boss. Her name is Dawn Dickson and she is a serial entrepreneur with over 16 years of experience in marketing and business development. She has launched four successful cash flow positive companies since 2002. Her most recent ventures are Flat Out of Heels (which provides rollable flats for women) and Solutions Vending International, recently renamed Pop Com, which provides a software solution to make vending machines more intelligent.</span></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dawn has received numerous awards and accolades for her Business savvy and pitching skills, including being awarded First place in the PowerMoves NOLA Big Break pitch Competition and second place in the 2016 SBA InnovateHer Challenge.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Additionally, Dawn was selected to participate in some of the nation’s top accelerator programs for entrepreneurs including the NewME(San Francisco),Canopy Boulder (Boulder,Colorado) and Techstars(Los Angeles).</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">On today’s episode, Dawn gets into:</span></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she went from living her best life with her first business to broke and moving in with her cousin</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she lost $15,000 attempting to start Solutions Vending</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she became a pitching queen</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">And Her best kept secret to find amazing business partners</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen on</span> <a href= "http://sidehustlepro.co/Podcast"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Apple Podcasts</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href= "https://soundcloud.com/sidehustlepro"><span style= "font-weight: 400;