John Frankel Says the Best Time to Scale Capital Is Series A
John Frankel · 20VC: Why Every Successful Company Pivots and Good Companies Get Funded in Good & Bad Markets with John Frankel, Founding Partner @ ff Venture Capital · Apr 27, 2016 · at 12:07
John Frankel, Founding Partner at ff Venture Capital, explains when startups should aggressively raise large capital rounds.
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“The best time to raise a lot of capital is once you've solved a lot of a problem, so you don't prematurely scale, but you scale into a business with no numbers. That's usually around about the series A to series B stage.”
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