Ep. 28 How I Raised It with Andy Lowery of RealWear on 3.12.18

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Andy Lowery, CEO of RealWear (www.realwear.com). RealWear makes an industrial head-mounted wearable headset that allows factory workers to receive information from android tablets and Web and voice messages from co-workers while working at construction sites. The Company recently raised $17.07 million of a planned $20 million Series A venture funding from lead investor Columbia Ventures with participation from Realmax Technology. In this episode, Andy talks about bootstrapping a hardware company (and even raising money from employees), avoiding Silicon Valley VCs, raising capital in China, how to handle "no's", dealing with lockup periods, how entrepreneurship is the last great adventure, and more.