"I was an entrepreneur for seven years, bootstrapping businesses. That means not getting any funding. I had some good moments and some struggles. Over the summer, I launched a solo startup, and it wasn't going very well. I was running out of money. Almost two years ago, I met my now wife. She's Russian and I live in France. We wanted to live together."
"I have a community on social media talking about my journey as an entrepreneur. So I posted something like, "I have to find a way to pay for my wedding. No idea how I'm going to do it." I said the minimum wedding I can do is going to be 4,000 euros. A friend of mine who's a famous entrepreneur in our community said, "I'm going to loan you the 4,000, but you don't have to pay me back if you can't.""
Dagobert Renouf spent seven years bootstrapping businesses and launched a solo startup that began failing, leaving him short on funds. Visa constraints prompted an accelerated wedding plan with his Russian partner, but finances were insufficient. Renouf tapped his social-media entrepreneur community, proposing company logos on his suit to raise roughly 4,000 euros. Community members responded with loans and paid placements, enabling the wedding while generating wide social engagement. The branded suit sparked conversations with fellow founders and led directly to a tech-sales role at the startup Comp AI.
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