Q similar approach. When you go directly to the user and you shorten the sales cycle, because all of a sudden you don't have to rely on a capital budget in order to get money to make your purchase. If we could pivot, so close seed, you close series A, always founders who love to hear about the process. Sometimes it could be a bit intimidating. What was your experience like?
A Keep it stupid simple is honestly what works. Use your network, cold email, and just focus on building the company. I've learned this. I've learned that the easiest time to raise money is when you don't need it. If you need money, You are very unlikely to raise them. And I see a lot of tactics getting too cute or too pretty when it comes to fundraising. Nowadays, I get emails from founders and I, I respect the heck out of their hustle. I never thought of doing this, asking what I think about one of our investors. And I say, oh, I respond like they're great. Cause I love our investors. And then the response is great. Can you introduce me? And of course I'll ask the investor. I love helping out other founders, but Nine out of 10 times the investor said, no, I want them reaching out to us, not wasting your time. So just focus on building a company and updates. That's what did it for us. So Bloomberg, who led our Series A, actually told us no to our seed rep. And it was as simple as every single month, I would say super short email. Here's one or two bullets of news about us, product, whatever. Here are three or four core metrics. ARR, customer account, renewal rate, not this crazy complicated thing. We're such a young company. A lot of those numbers are just going to change greatly in a few months. And just kept shooting them an email. Update, update. Got a text one day. Hey, we'd…
AI assessment note: “Bloomberg, who led our Series A, actually told us no to our seed rep.”