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Raising money is like being punched in the face over and over again. You need to have a thick skin ~Manica Gautam on She Built That It is often said that business is all about relationships, and in Manica Gautam’s case, that couldn’t be more true. Her business, Campfire Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in retail companies leveraging technology to innovate, is the direct result of a friendship she developed with her current co-partner and former lululemon athletica Director of Business Development, Brooke Harley, after meeting during a job interview at the lululemon headquarters back in 2011. While Manica didn’t take the job, the two remained friends. Manica continued to build her career in the financial industry and was working as the Funds Group Director at Onex, one of the top private equity firms in the world. Over the course of the next couple years, a few girls trips and a break-up here and there, the two friends quickly realized that they shared many of the same business goals. In January 20