Funding
topic on 5 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
Startups For the Rest of Us 
Sourcery 
Top Founders 
the a16z Podcast 
20VC
8 statements about Funding, every show
Beck: Startups that fail most spectacularly are usually the best funded
“If you look at if I look back and think of, you know, lots of startups that I've seen or been involved with, the ones that have failed most spectacularly have been the ones that have been funded the most well.”
Stebbings: Securing distribution is harder for new ventures than raising funding
“Well, I'm just like, there's two things that would make this fail. One is funding, and two is distribution, and the hardest is actually not the cash, it's the distribution.”
Walling: More bootstrapped SaaS founders are raising outside funding than ever
“I see more bootstrap SaaS founders raising funding now than ever before, right?”
Walling: Funding is best used after establishing a repeatable growth engine
“If you have an engine that's working and over time you can put a dollar in and get two, three, four dollars out over the next year or two, this is where funding is the ideal solution. That's really what funding should be used for, right?”
Gaither: 'Privileged' investor mindset made raising capital difficult
“This is a main reason why it's taken us a long time to get funding is because people have a privileged mindset of how the law works and how the law functions.”
Schiltz: Conga has raised over $130 million to date
“Total to date a little north of a hundred and thirty million.”