Medina: Founders should raise double the capital needed for cash flow positivity
Manny Medina · Look Back: Can Outreach beat Vista Backed Salesloft? · Mar 21, 2022 · at 22:53
Manny Medina, CEO of Outreach, outlines his framework for planning startup capitalization and runway strategy.
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“The way, the broader way to think about this is, is, is play it all the way out to cashflow positive or to some kind of like give it that number and then figure out how much money do you need to get there and then double that. And then that's your new minimum.”
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