{"id":5359,"date":"2026-04-20T10:25:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startupgvl.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&amp;p=5359"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:25:42","slug":"i4-series-build-it-guarantee-it-sell-it-a-founders-unfiltered-story","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/startupneue.goodvillage.co\/new\/event\/i4-series-build-it-guarantee-it-sell-it-a-founders-unfiltered-story\/","title":{"rendered":"i4 Series: Build it. Guarantee it. Sell it. A founder&#8217;s unfiltered story."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"StructuredModuleRenderer_structuredContent__k7mNB StructuredModuleRenderer_text__GaXOv\" data-testid=\"text-content\">\n<div>\n<p>Elias Bustos guaranteed his software would work. In 20 years, he never paid out once. Then he sold for millions. Come hear how.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"StructuredModuleRenderer_structuredContent__k7mNB StructuredModuleRenderer_text__GaXOv\" data-testid=\"text-content\">\n<div>\n<p>Most vendors who try to sell into the nonprofit world fail, not because their product isn&#8217;t good, but because they never took the time to understand how nonprofits actually work. The budgets are different. The decision-making is different. The rules are different and if you get it wrong, you won&#8217;t get a second chance.<\/p>\n<p>Elias spent 20 years figuring all of that out and built a software company so effective he backed every engagement with a\u00a010\u201312% profitability guarantee. In two decades, not a single client ever needed to collect. Then he\u00a0sold his company for millions.<\/p>\n<p>Join us for a fireside chat as Elias sits down with Doug Kim, founder of the\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/kimandlahey.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/kimandlahey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-msys-clicktrack=\"0\">Kim, Lahey &amp; Killough Law Firm\u00a0<\/a>who was there from the earliest days of the company through the closing of the sale, to unpack the full story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elias Bustos guaranteed his software would work. In 20 years, he never paid out once. Then he sold for millions. Come hear how. Most vendors who try to sell into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-5359","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupneue.goodvillage.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/5359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupneue.goodvillage.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupneue.goodvillage.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupneue.goodvillage.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/startupneue.goodvillage.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/5359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupneue.goodvillage.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupneue.goodvillage.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupneue.goodvillage.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}