Dan Schaefer Of Native Pet: On How To Successfully Ride The Emotional Highs & Lows Of Being An Entrepreneur

Persistence — becoming an entrepreneur is a lifetime commitment. After you reach a milestone you are already on to the next one. During our first capital raise, we talked to well over 100 investors. Most of them said no. Towards the end, we got put in touch with Mars Petcare and they ended up being our biggest investor in that round. We closed the round and it felt like we had climbed a mountain. We were just getting started.

Being a founder, entrepreneur, or a business owner can have many exciting and thrilling moments. But it is also punctuated with periods of doubt, slump, and anxiety. So how does one successfully and healthily ride the highs and lows of Entrepreneurship? In this series, called “How To Successfully Ride The Emotional Highs & Lows Of Being An Entrepreneur” we are talking to successful entrepreneurs who can share stories from their experience Dan Schaefer.

Co-Founder and CEO of Native Pet, first of its kind natural, highly effective, limited…