Build Your Bootstrap Fund
$100 from you. $1,000,000 together. Not a dollar spent until we get there.
Back it with $100 and you become a Dream Builder. Your money sits untouched until all $1,000,000 is raised. That's the promise.
No accreditation. No middlemen. Low-stakes, community-powered funding. Secure checkout on Stripe.
I'm Chelsee, founder of Aaniin and BuildYourBzns. Right now your $100 backs me building BuildYourBzns in public, so you can watch every step. As it grows, this becomes a community fund where Dream Builders help decide which founders we back next, the ones who'd never get a VC meeting.
Connect with Chelsee on LinkedInFounding round · be one of the first 100
1 of 10,000 Dream Builders
Every Dream Builder is $100. 10,000 of us = our $1,000,000 goal.
Not a single dollar is spent until we hit $1,000,000.
How it works
Three steps. One promise you can hold me to.
Step 1
Back a founder with $100
One flat $100 contribution through Stripe. No accreditation, no minimums, no fine print. Everyday people funding everyday founders.
Step 2
You become a Dream Builder
That $100 makes you a founding Dream Builder, a named backer of the fund, with founding-supporter status and a welcome in the mail.
Step 3
Nothing's spent until $1,000,000
Not a cent gets touched until the full goal is raised. Until then you follow every milestone in public, down to exactly where the money goes.
Who's behind this
I turned $3K into $3M without ever shipping a product myself. This is me doing it again, out loud.
$3K
made my first week, pitching strangers on the street
$3M+
grown from that first $3K into a real product business
0
products I ever shipped, packed, or warehoused myself
I started a dropshipping store with nothing but nerve, walking up to strangers on the street and pitching them face to face. First week, I made $3,000. I never touched a product, never ran a warehouse, never waited for permission.
That $3,000 became more than $3 million. I learned how to build the machine underneath a product business, the margins, the systems, the partners, the brand, without being the person stuffing boxes. That's the whole thing I now teach founders inside BuildYourBzns and Aaniin: scale doesn't come from working harder, it comes from building the right structure.
Now I'm doing it again from scratch, in public, so you can watch every step instead of taking my word for it. Same playbook that took $3K to $3M, run out loud, with the people who back me building it alongside me.
Traditional VC was never going to fund founders like us. So we're replacing it: $100 and a community instead of a pitch deck and a gatekeeper.
Chelsee, founder of Aaniin & BuildYourBzns
What Dream Builders get
$100 makes you a founding backer. Here's what comes with it.
Your Dream Builder welcome
A Dream Builder sticker or token in the mail: proof you were here at the start, not a line item on a cap table.
Public milestone updates
Follow every dollar and every decision as it happens, across email, Instagram and YouTube. No black box.
Founding-supporter status
You're named among the people who made this real before it was obvious. That status doesn't expire.
First access to what's next
Priority access and a discounted spot in the Foundations First cohort when it opens, plus first dibs on future rewards.
The roadmap: our goals, in public
First milestone
100 founders into Foundations First
Our first goal: put 100 founders through the Foundations First cohort, the rebuild that takes a product business and scales its margins and systems.
Loyalty program
A loyalty program for Dream Builders
Backing the fund early enrolls you in the Dream Builder loyalty program. As the businesses we fund hit their bigger milestones, early backers earn rewards that grow over time. We're still finalizing exactly what's included, and we'll share the details here before it goes live.
These are goals on our public roadmap, not guarantees, and you'll watch us chase them milestone by milestone.
Built in public
The $1,000,000 sits in a lockbox. Everything else is wide open.
Not a single dollar moves until we hit the full $1,000,000. Until then, and after, I'm sharing every milestone, every number and every decision across email, Instagram and YouTube. You don't have to trust me. You get to watch.
Questions, answered
The honest answers before you put in $100.
Put your $100 in the lockbox. Become a Dream Builder.
One hundred dollars. Not touched until we hit $1,000,000. Built in public, the whole way.
Founding round · be one of the first 100
1 of 10,000 Dream Builders
Every Dream Builder is $100. 10,000 of us = our $1,000,000 goal.
Not a single dollar is spent until we hit $1,000,000.