fundraising
4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 24, 2020 by Vishesh Rajaram · across every show →
Everything said about fundraising, oldest first
Aug 24, 2020 neutral
Rajaram: B2C Startups Require Nonstop Fundraising Compared to B2B
“BTC ones need a lot more capital to play out, which means that the founders themselves need to first understand that. And understand that fundraising is a, is not a seasonal job. It's an everyday job. I mean, you've got to be constantly fundraising in some of …”
Sep 20, 2020 neutral
Startup fundraising cycles are lengthening, requiring founders to secure longer runways
“Fundraising in the last few years is taking only longer. It's not taking shorter, right? Unless there are some of the larger unicorn kind of companies different, but for some of the other, most of the largest startup companies, it's requires enough capital in …”
Nov 4, 2025 positive
Poddar: Founder storytelling is critical in fundraising-heavy categories
“Storytelling is more important in categories where fundraising is important in future as well. So there have been many good founders who have good, been good execution guys, but they have not been able to raise capital later. And so the company has not done ve…”
Jul 17, 2026 negative
Jain: When two pre-seed founders fundraise, business operations effectively halt
“Like, if you think about it, there's two founders raising a pre-seed, and they're both fundraising, or meeting investors, Nobody's writing code. Nobody's selling to customers, right? The business is essentially shut down for the purpose of fundraising.”