Maheshwari: Slow growth over three years makes raising VC nearly impossible
Natwar Maheshwari · 880 SaaS: Why Is This Engineer Competing in Highly Competitive Space? · Dec 21, 2017 · at 13:25
Natwar Maheshwari, founder of social media tool Around.io, explains to Nathan Latka why he is not seeking venture capital at his current stage.
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“I would not consider it at the moment because we are at a place that it's very, very, it's going to be very tough, right? If I go to an investor right now and say I've been alive for more than three and a half years, and now I would raise funds, they're going to ask very serious questions, and they're going to have very serious concerns.”
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